[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 250 (Thursday, December 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82320-82321]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-33201]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(Docket 71-2000)
Foreign-Trade Zone 50, Long Beach, CA; Proposed Foreign-Trade
Subzone; ARCO Products Company, (Oil Refinery Complex); Long Beach, CA,
Area
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Long
Beach, grantee of FTZ 50, requesting special-purpose subzone status for
the oil refinery complex of Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), a
wholly-owned subsidiary of BP America, located in the Long Beach,
California, area. 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
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of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed on December 14,
2000.
The ARCO refinery complex (854 acres) is located at 7 sites in the
Long Beach area (Los Angeles County), California: Site 1 (268,000 BPD
capacity, 6.7 million barrel capacity, 646.5 acres)--main refinery
complex, located at 1801 East Sepulveda Blvd., some 25 miles south of
downtown Los Angeles; Site 2 (5.5 acres)--Berth 121 of Terminal 1, Long
Beach Harbor, for receiving crude oil; Site 3 (24 tanks,1.7 million
barrel capacity, 19 acres )--Terminal 2, Long Beach Harbor, crude oil
and product storage; Site 4 (27 tanks, 2.1 million barrel capacity, 73
acres)--Hynes facility for crude and product storage, located at 5900
Cherry Avenue, Long Beach, some 4 miles northwest of the refinery; Site
5 (4 tanks, 1.2 million barrel capacity, 15 acres)--``Southern
California Edison-Long Beach'' leased storage facility, located at 2665
Seaside Blvd., Long Beach, some 6 miles south of the refinery; Site 6
(12 tanks, 3.6 million barrel capacity, 75 acres)'' ``Southern
California Edison-Dominguez'' leased storage facility, 2500 East
Victoria, Compton, some 5 miles northeast of the refinery; and Site 7
(20 tanks, 1 million barrel capacity, 20 acres)--Hathaway terminal,
2350 Hathaway Drive, Signal Hill, some 5 miles east of the refinery.
The refinery (920 employees) is used to produce fuels and
petrochemical feedstocks. Fuel products include gasoline, jet fuel,
distillates, residual fuels, naphthas and motor fuel blendstocks.
Petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products include methane,
ethane, propane, propylene, butane, petroleum coke and sulfur. Some 15
percent of the crude oil (91 percent of inputs) is sourced abroad. The
application also indicates that the company may in the future import
under FTZ procedures some naphthas, virgin gas oil, natural gas
condensate, and motor fuel blendstocks.
Zone procedures would exempt the refinery from Customs duty
payments on the foreign products used in its exports. On domestic
sales, the company would be able to choose the Customs duty rates that
apply to certain petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products
(duty-free) by admitting incoming foreign crude oil in non-privileged
foreign status. The duty rates on inputs range from 5.25 cents/barrel
to 10.5 cents/barrel. The application indicates that the savings from
zone procedures would help improve the refinery's international
competitiveness.
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 February 26, 2001. Rebuttal
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to March 13,
2001).
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, One World Trade
Center, Suite 1670 , Long Beach, CA 90831;
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: December 15, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-33201 Filed 12-27-00; 8:45 am]
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