[Federal Register: February 11, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 28)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 5-99]

 
Foreign-Trade Zone 22, Chicago, Illinois Application for Subzone; 
Clark Refining & Marketing, Inc. (Oil Refinery Complex) Cook County, IL

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Illinois International Port District, grantee of FTZ 
22, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil refinery 
complex of Clark Refining & Marketing, Inc., located in Cook County, 
Illinois (Chicago 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 of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was 
formally filed on February 1, 1999.
    The refinery complex (165 acres) is located at three sites in Cook 
County, Illinois (Chicago area): Site 1 (85,000 BPD capacity, 120 
acres)--main refinery complex, located at 131st and Kedzie Avenue on 
the Calumet Sag Canal, Blue Island; Site 2 (45 acres)--crude oil tank 
farm (7 tanks, 431,290 barrel capacity), located at 131st and Homan, 
\1/4\ mile northwest of the refinery and Site 3 (5 tanks, 170,000 
barrel capacity)--leased from the Texas Eastern Product Pipeline 
Company storage facility located at 3645 West 131st Street, Alsip, \1/
4\ mile west of the refinery.
    The refinery (300 employees) is used to produce fuels and 
petrochemical feedstocks. Fuel products include gasoline, jet fuel, 
distillates, residual fuels, and motor fuel blendstocks. Petrochemical 
feedstocks and refinery by-products include propane, propylene, 
ethylene, butane, butylene, butadiene, liquified natural gas, benzene, 
toluene, xylene, carbon black oil, petroleum coke, sulfur and asphalt. 
About half of the crude oil (95 percent of inputs) and some motor fuel 
blendstocks are sourced abroad.
    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 and natural gas 
condensate 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 
April 12, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to April 27, 1999.
    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, 55 West Monroe 
Street, Suite 2440, Chicago, Illinois 60603
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: February 2, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-3416 Filed 2-10-99; 8:45 am]
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