[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 1, 1997)] [Notices] [Page 15462] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 97-8258] [[Page 15462]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE [Docket 20-97] Foreign-Trade Zone 199; Texas City, Texas; Application for Subzone Status, Seaway Pipeline Company (Crude Oil Terminal), Texas City, TX An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) by the Texas City Foreign Trade Zone Corporation, grantee of FTZ 199, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the crude oil distribution terminal of Seaway Pipeline Company (Seaway) (general partnership between wholly-owned subsidiaries of ARCO Pipe Line Company (APL) and Phillips Petroleum Company), located in Texas City, Texas. 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 Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed on March 19, 1997. The Seaway facilities (115 acres) consist of three sites in Texas City (Galveston County), Texas: Site 1: (14 acres)--marine terminal located at 801 Dock Road, on the Texas City Channel of Galveston Bay, 2 miles southeast of Texas City; Site 2: (4 tanks/2.1 million barrel capacity on 98 acres)--tank farm located at Loop 197 and State Highway 3, some 2 miles south of the marine terminal and 1 mile west of Galveston Bay; and Site 3: (3 acres)--pump station located at Loop 197 and State Highway 3, adjacent to the tank farm. The terminal facilities (13 employees), operated by APL, are used for the receipt, storage, blending and distribution via pipeline of crude oil for use by refinery customers in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and other midwestern and northern states. Some of the crude is transshipped to APL's terminal in Cushing, Oklahoma. Zone procedures would allow Seaway customers to defer Customs duty payment on foreign crude oil to domestic refineries with subzone status. Seaway customers would be able to maintain the appropriate zone status of the crude so that these refineries can use zone procedures as authorized by the FTZ Board. This procedure will give these refineries the same opportunity to use zone procedures for foreign crude delivered from the Seaway system as those refineries with subzone status that take direct delivery of foreign crude from vessels. In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and report to the Board. Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions (original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is June 2, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15- day period (to June 16, 1997). A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be available for public inspection at each of the following locations: U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, Suite 1160, 500 Dallas, Houston, Texas 77002 Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. Dated: March 24, 1997. John J. Da Ponte, Jr., Executive Secretary. [FR Doc. 97-8258 Filed 3-31-97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P