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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B–82–2015]
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Foreign-Trade Zone 149—Freeport,
Texas; Application for Subzone
Expansion, Subzone 149C, Phillips 66
Company, Brazoria County, Texas
An application has been submitted to
the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the
Board) by Port Freeport, grantee of FTZ
149, requesting additional acreage
within Subzone 149C on behalf of
Phillips 66 Company located in Brazoria
County, 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 docketed on
December 4, 2015.
Subzone 149C was approved by the
Board on September 25, 1997 (Board
Order 920, 62 FR 51830, October 3,
1997) and currently consists of six sites
totaling 2,095 acres: Site 1 (1,315
acres)—main refinery and
petrochemical complex located at Texas
State Highway 35 at Farm Market Road
524, south of Sweeney; Site 2 (160
acres)—Freeport I Terminal and storage
facility located at County Road 731,
some 28 miles southeast of the refinery;
Site 3 (183 acres)—six crude oil storage
tanks at Jones Creek Terminal located at
6215 State Highway 36, some 17 miles
southeast of the refinery; Site 4 (34
acres)—San Bernard Terminal and
storage facility located at County Road
378, 5 miles southeast of the refinery;
Site 5 (403 acres)—Clemens Terminal
underground LPG storage located at
County Road 314, 15 miles east of the
refinery; and, Site 6—consisting of a sixmile pipeline. The applicant is
requesting authority to expand existing
Site 5 to include an additional 75 acres
(new site total—478 acres). No
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authorization for production activity has
been requested at this time.
In accordance with the Board’s
regulations, Camille Evans of the FTZ
Staff is designated examiner to review
the application and make
recommendations to the Executive
Secretary.
Public comment is invited from
interested parties. Submissions shall be
addressed to the Board’s Executive
Secretary at the address below. The
closing period for their receipt is
January 19, 2016. Rebuttal comments in
response to material submitted during
the foregoing period may be submitted
during the subsequent 15-day period to
February 2, 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 Board’s
Web site, which is accessible via
www.trade.gov/ftz.
For further information, contact
Camille Evans at Camille.Evans@
trade.gov or (202) 482–2350.
Dated: December 4, 2015.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B–81–2015]
Foreign-Trade Zone 257—Imperial
County, California; Application for
Reorganization Under Alternative Site
Framework
An application has been submitted to
the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board by
the County of Imperial, California,
grantee of FTZ 257, requesting authority
to reorganize the zone under the
alternative site framework (ASF)
adopted by the FTZ Board (15 CFR
400.2(c)). The ASF is an option for
grantees for the establishment or
reorganization of zones and can permit
significantly greater flexibility in the
designation of new subzones or ‘‘usagedriven’’ FTZ sites for operators/users
located within a grantee’s ‘‘service area’’
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in the context of the FTZ Board’s
standard 2,000-acre activation limit for
a zone. The application was submitted
pursuant to 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 docketed on
December 3, 2015.
FTZ 257 was approved by the FTZ
Board on October 9, 2003 (Board Order
1286, 68 FR 61393, October 28, 2003).
The current zone includes the
following sites: Site 1: (597 acres)—
Gateway of the Americas, State Route 7
and State Highway 98, Calexico; Site 2:
(32 acres)—Airport Industrial Park,
Jones Drive and Best Road with adjacent
parcel on Duarte Street, Brawley; Site 3:
(240.36 acres)—Calexico International
Airport, 254–256 E. Anza Road and
Second Street and Airport Road,
Calexico; Site 4: (104 acres)—Calipatria
Airport Industrial Park, Main Street,
International Road and Lyerly Road,
Calipatria; Site 5: (531 acres)—El Centro
Community Redevelopment Agency
project area, Danenberg Road, Dogwood
Road and I–8, El Centro; Site 6: (3.46
acres)—Coppel Corporation, 503
Scaroni Road, Calexico; Site 7: (43
acres)—Imperial County Airport, State
Highway 86 and Aten Road; Site 8: (115
acres)—Drewry Warehousing complex,
340 West Ralph Road, Imperial; Site 9:
(45 acres)—Lucky Ranch Industrial
Park, Best Road and Shank Road,
Brawley; Site 10: (78.11 acres)—Desert
Real Estate parcels, Cole Road and
Sunset Boulevard, Calexico; Site 11:
(35.47 acres)—Portico Industrial Park,
Cole Road and Enterprise Boulevard,
Calexico; Site 12 (59.49 acres)—Kloke
Tract, Cole Road and Camacho Road,
Calexico; Site 13 (57.45 acres)—Las
Palmas/Estrada Business Park, Estrada
Boulevard and Arguelles Street,
Calexico; Site 14 (7.54 acres)—Calexico
Industrial Park, 190 East Cole Road and
2360, 2420, 2430, 4360 M.L. King
Avenue, Calexico; Site 15 (1.3 acres)—
JE Exports, 701 Cesar Chavez Boulevard,
Calexico; and, Site 16 (0.96 acres)—JE
Exports, 224 Grant Street, Calexico.
The grantee’s proposed service area
under the ASF would be Imperial
County, California, as described in the
application. If approved, the grantee
would be able to serve sites throughout
the service area based on companies’
needs for FTZ designation. The
application indicates that the proposed
service area is within and adjacent to
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the Calexico U.S. Customs and Border
Protection port of entry.
The applicant is requesting authority
to reorganize its existing zone to include
existing Sites 1 through 5 and 7 through
14 as ‘‘magnet’’ sites and existing Sites
6, 15 and 16 as ‘‘usage-driven’’ sites.
The ASF allows for the possible
exemption of one magnet site from the
‘‘sunset’’ time limits that generally
apply to sites under the ASF, and the
applicant proposes that Site 1 be so
exempted. No new subzones/usagedriven sites are being requested at this
time.
In accordance with the FTZ Board’s
regulations, Christopher Kemp of the
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to
evaluate and analyze the facts and
information presented in the application
and case record and to report findings
and 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
February 8, 2016. Rebuttal comments in
response to material submitted during
the foregoing period may be submitted
during the subsequent 15-day period to
February 22, 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 Christopher Kemp
at Christopher.Kemp@trade.gov or (202)
482–0862.
Dated: December 3, 2015.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
International Trade Administration
Street and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202)
[A–602–809, A–351–845, A–588–874, A–421–
482–0665, and (202) 482–1690,
813, C–351–846]
respectively.
Antidumping Duty Investigations of
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products
Background
From Australia, Brazil, Japan, and the
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.206(c)(2), the
Netherlands and Countervailing Duty
petitioners requested that the
Investigation of Certain Hot-Rolled
Department issue a preliminary
Steel Flat Products From Brazil:
affirmative determination of critical
Preliminary Determinations of Critical
circumstances on an expedited basis. In
Circumstances
accordance with sections 703(e)(1) and
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance,
733(e)(1) of the Act, because the
International Trade Administration,
petitioners submitted their critical
Department of Commerce.
circumstances allegations more than 20
days before the scheduled date of the
SUMMARY: On August 11, 2015, the
final determination, the Department
Department of Commerce (the
Department) received antidumping duty must promptly issue preliminary critical
circumstances determinations.
(AD) petitions concerning imports of
Section 703(e)(1) of the Act provides
certain hot-rolled steel flat products
that the Department will determine that
(hot-rolled steel) from Australia, Brazil,
critical circumstances exist in CVD
Japan, and the Netherlands, and a
investigations if there is a reasonable
countervailing duty (CVD) petition
concerning hot-rolled steel from Brazil.1 basis to believe or suspect: (A) That ‘‘the
alleged countervailable subsidy’’ is
On October 23, 2015, the Department
inconsistent with the Agreement on
received timely allegations, pursuant to
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
sections 703(e)(1) and 733(e)(1) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), (SCM Agreement) of the World Trade
Organization, and (B) that ‘‘there have
and 19 CFR 351.206, that critical
been massive imports of the subject
circumstances exist with respect to
merchandise over a relatively short
imports of the merchandise under
period.’’ Section 733(e)(1) of the Act
investigation.2 Based on information
provided by the petitioners, data placed provides that the Department will
preliminarily determine that critical
on the record of these investigations by
circumstances exist in AD investigations
the mandatory respondents, and data
collected by the Department from Global if there is a reasonable basis to believe
or suspect: (A)(i) That ‘‘there is a history
Trade Atlas (GTA), the Department
of dumping and material injury by
preliminarily determines that critical
reason of dumped imports in the United
circumstances exist for imports of hotStates or elsewhere of the subject
rolled steel from certain producers and
merchandise,’’ or (ii) that ‘‘the person by
exporters from Brazil and Japan.
whom, or for whose account, the
DATES: Effective Date: December 9, 2015.
merchandise was imported knew or
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
should have known that the exporter
Dmitry Vladimirov or Minoo Hatten,
was selling the subject merchandise at
AD/CVD Operations, Office I,
less than its fair value and that there
Enforcement and Compliance,
was likely to be material injury by
reason of such sales,’’ and (B) that
1 See Petitions for the Imposition of Antidumping
‘‘there have been massive imports of the
Duties on Imports of Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat
subject merchandise over a relatively
Products from Australia, Brazil, Japan, Korea, the
Netherlands, Turkey, and the United Kingdom,
short period.’’ Section 351.206(h)(2) of
dated August 11, 2015, and Petitions for the
the Department’s regulations provides
Imposition of Countervailing Duties on Imports of
that, generally, imports must increase by
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Brazil,
at least 15 percent during the ‘‘relatively
Korea, and Turkey, dated August 11, 2015
(collectively, the petitions). The petitioners for
short period’’ to be considered
these investigations are AK Steel Corporation,
‘‘massive’’ and section 351.206(i)
ArcelorMittal USA LLC, Nucor Corporation, SSAB
defines a ‘‘relatively short period’’ as
Enterprises, LLC, Steel Dynamics, Inc., and United
normally being the period beginning on
States Steel Corporation (the petitioners).
2 See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From
the date the proceeding begins (i.e., the
Australia, Brazil, Japan and the Netherlands—
date the petition is filed) 3 and ending at
Critical Circumstances Allegations, October 23,
least three months later.4 The
2105, and Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
From Australia, Brazil, Japan and the Netherlands—
Critical Circumstances Allegations, November 2,
2015 (making public certain information in
Attachment 2 of original submission) (collectively,
Critical Circumstances Allegation).
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3 See 19 CFR 351.102(b)(40) (providing that a
proceeding begins on the date of the filing of a
petition).
4 See 19 CFR 351.206(i).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-81-2015]
Foreign-Trade Zone 257--Imperial County, California; Application
for Reorganization Under Alternative Site Framework
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board by the County of Imperial, California, grantee of FTZ 257,
requesting authority to reorganize the zone under the alternative site
framework (ASF) adopted by the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.2(c)). The ASF is
an option for grantees for the establishment or reorganization of zones
and can permit significantly greater flexibility in the designation of
new subzones or ``usage-driven'' FTZ sites for operators/users located
within a grantee's ``service area'' in the context of the FTZ Board's
standard 2,000-acre activation limit for a zone. The application was
submitted pursuant to 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 docketed on December 3, 2015.
FTZ 257 was approved by the FTZ Board on October 9, 2003 (Board
Order 1286, 68 FR 61393, October 28, 2003).
The current zone includes the following sites: Site 1: (597
acres)--Gateway of the Americas, State Route 7 and State Highway 98,
Calexico; Site 2: (32 acres)--Airport Industrial Park, Jones Drive and
Best Road with adjacent parcel on Duarte Street, Brawley; Site 3:
(240.36 acres)--Calexico International Airport, 254-256 E. Anza Road
and Second Street and Airport Road, Calexico; Site 4: (104 acres)--
Calipatria Airport Industrial Park, Main Street, International Road and
Lyerly Road, Calipatria; Site 5: (531 acres)--El Centro Community
Redevelopment Agency project area, Danenberg Road, Dogwood Road and I-
8, El Centro; Site 6: (3.46 acres)--Coppel Corporation, 503 Scaroni
Road, Calexico; Site 7: (43 acres)--Imperial County Airport, State
Highway 86 and Aten Road; Site 8: (115 acres)--Drewry Warehousing
complex, 340 West Ralph Road, Imperial; Site 9: (45 acres)--Lucky Ranch
Industrial Park, Best Road and Shank Road, Brawley; Site 10: (78.11
acres)--Desert Real Estate parcels, Cole Road and Sunset Boulevard,
Calexico; Site 11: (35.47 acres)--Portico Industrial Park, Cole Road
and Enterprise Boulevard, Calexico; Site 12 (59.49 acres)--Kloke Tract,
Cole Road and Camacho Road, Calexico; Site 13 (57.45 acres)--Las
Palmas/Estrada Business Park, Estrada Boulevard and Arguelles Street,
Calexico; Site 14 (7.54 acres)--Calexico Industrial Park, 190 East Cole
Road and 2360, 2420, 2430, 4360 M.L. King Avenue, Calexico; Site 15
(1.3 acres)--JE Exports, 701 Cesar Chavez Boulevard, Calexico; and,
Site 16 (0.96 acres)--JE Exports, 224 Grant Street, Calexico.
The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be Imperial
County, California, as described in the application. If approved, the
grantee would be able to serve sites throughout the service area based
on companies' needs for FTZ designation. The application indicates that
the proposed service area is within and adjacent to
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the Calexico U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry.
The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing
zone to include existing Sites 1 through 5 and 7 through 14 as
``magnet'' sites and existing Sites 6, 15 and 16 as ``usage-driven''
sites. The ASF allows for the possible exemption of one magnet site
from the ``sunset'' time limits that generally apply to sites under the
ASF, and the applicant proposes that Site 1 be so exempted. No new
subzones/usage-driven sites are being requested at this time.
In accordance with the FTZ Board's regulations, Christopher Kemp of
the FTZ Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts
and information presented in the application and case record and to
report findings and 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 February 8,
2016. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period
to February 22, 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 Christopher Kemp at
Christopher.Kemp@trade.gov or (202) 482-0862.
Dated: December 3, 2015.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-31079 Filed 12-8-15; 8:45 am]
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