[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 16, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 7745]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-03072]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-6-2016]
Foreign-Trade Zone 116--Port Arthur, Texas; Expansion of Subzone
116C; Premcor Refining Group Inc.; Jefferson County, Texas
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board by the Foreign-Trade Zone of Southeast Texas, Inc., grantee of
FTZ 116, requesting an expansion of Subzone 116C on behalf of Premcor
Refining Group Inc. The application was submitted pursuant to the
provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-
81u), and the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR part 400). It was
formally docketed on February 9, 2016.
Subzone 116C was approved on October 7, 1996 (Board Order 848, 61
FR 54153-54154, October 17, 1996). The subzone (4,016 acres) currently
consists of four sites located in Jefferson County: Site 1 (3,581
acres)--main refinery complex located at 1801 S. Gulfway Drive, 3 miles
southwest of Port Arthur; Site 2 (101 acres)--Lucas/Beaumont Terminal
Storage facility located at 9405 West Port Arthur Road, 15 miles
northwest of the refinery; Site 3 (243 acres)--Fannett LPG storage
terminal located at 16151 Craigen Road, near Fannett, some 2 miles west
of the refinery; and, Site 4 (91 acres)--Port Arthur Products storage
facility located at 1825 H.O. Mills Road, 4 miles northwest of the
refinery.
The applicant is requesting authority to expand the subzone to
include an additional site: Proposed Site 5 (108.2 acres)--2500 Martin
Luther King Jr. Drive (Highway 82), Port Arthur. The proposed site
would include a 2.7 mile pipeline that links the dock to the main
refinery complex (Site 1). No additional authorization for production
activity has been requested at this time.
In accordance with the FTZ Board's regulations, Camille Evans of
the FTZ Staff is designated examiner to review the application and make
recommendations to the FTZ Board.
Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions
shall be addressed to the FTZ Board's Executive Secretary at the
address below. The closing period for their receipt is March 28, 2016.
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period
to April 11, 2016.
A copy of the application will be available for public inspection
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
Room 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the
FTZ Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
For further information, contact Camille Evans at
[email protected] or (202) 482-2350.
Dated: February 10, 2016.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-03072 Filed 2-12-16; 8:45 am]
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