[Federal Register: April 1, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 63)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 17-2008]
Foreign-Trade Zone 50--Port of Long Beach; Expansion of Subzone
50I; Ultramar Inc.; Wilmington, CA
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Port of Long Beach, grantee of FTZ 50, requesting
authority to expand the subzone and the scope of manufacturing activity
conducted under zone procedures within Subzone 50I at the refinery
owned by Valero Energy Corporation subsidiary Ultramar Inc. in
Wilmington, California. 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 21, 2008.
Subzone 50I (557 employees) was approved by the Board on August 23,
2002 for the manufacture of fuel products and certain petrochemical
feedstocks (Board Order 1244, 67 FR 56983, 9/6/02). The subzone
currently consists of three sites (140 acres total): Site 1 (137 acres,
120,000 BPD refinery and 3.1 million barrel storage capacity) is
located at 2402 East Anaheim Street, in the Wilmington area of Los
Angeles; Site 2 (three tanks, 1.1 million barrel storage capacity), at
the Pacific Terminals, Dominguez Hills storage facility, located at
2500 East Victoria St. in Compton, some 5.5 miles from the refinery;
and Site 3 (one tank, 180,000
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barrel capacity) at the Pacific Terminals, Long Beach Terminal storage
facility, located at 2685 Seaside Blvd., Long Beach, some 1.4 miles
from the refinery.
The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the subzone to
include an additional site (proposed Site 4) at the Wilmington Asphalt
Plant. The proposed site (41 employees) consists of 6.4 acres and is
located at 1651 Alameda in Wilmington, California, approximately 1.6
miles from the main refinery complex. The addition of the site would
increase the overall crude distillation capacity of the refinery to
126,000 BPD. No additional feedstocks or products have been requested.
Zone procedures would exempt production at the proposed site 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 for certain petrochemical feedstocks (duty-free) by admitting
foreign crude oil in non-privileged foreign status. The application
indicates that the savings from zone procedures would help improve the
refinery's international competitiveness.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, Elizabeth Whiteman of
the FTZ staff is 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, 2008. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to June 16, 2008.
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, 51 11150 West
Olympic Boulevard, Suite 975, Los Angeles, CA 90064.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Room 2111, 1401 Constitution Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20230.
For further information, contact Elizabeth Whiteman at Elizabeth--
Whiteman@ita.doc.gov or (202) 482-0473.
Dated: March 21, 2008.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-6704 Filed 3-31-08; 8:45 am]
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