[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1468 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1468

To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to convey for scrapping by 
the National Maritime Museum Association not more than 2 vessels in the 
   National Defense Reserve Fleet that are scheduled to be scrapped.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 24, 1993

  Ms. Pelosi introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to convey for scrapping by 
the National Maritime Museum Association not more than 2 vessels in the 
   National Defense Reserve Fleet that are scheduled to be scrapped.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CONVEYANCE OF NDRF VESSELS FOR SCRAPPING BY NATIONAL 
              MARITIME MUSEUM ASSOCIATION.

    (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``Historic Fleet 
Restoration Act of 1993''.
    (b) Vessel Conveyance Authority.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other law and subject 
        to paragraph (2), the Secretary of Transportation shall convey 
        to the National Maritime Museum Association (a nonprofit 
        organization located in San Francisco, California; hereinafter 
        in this section referred to as the ``Association''), without 
        consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United 
        States Government in not more than 2 vessels which--
                    (A) are in the National Defense Reserve Fleet on 
                the date of the enactment of this section;
                    (B) are each of not less than 4,000 displacement 
                tons;
                    (C) have no usefulness to the Government; and
                    (D) are scheduled to be scrapped.
            (2) Condition.--As a condition of conveying any vessel to 
        the Association pursuant to this section, the Secretary shall 
        require that the Association enter into an agreement with the 
        Secretary which requires that the Association--
                    (A) sell the vessel for scrap purposes;
                    (B) use the proceeds of that scrapping for expenses 
                directly related to the preservation and restoration of 
                the historic fleet of the San Francisco Maritime 
                National Historical Park, located in San Francisco, 
                California;
                    (C) have raised, before the date of the conveyance, 
                at least $100,000 from non-Federal sources for use for 
                the support of the San Francisco Maritime National 
                Historical Park; and
                    (D) comply with any other conditions the Secretary 
                considers appropriate.
    (c) Delivery.--The Secretary shall deliver any vessel conveyed 
under this section to the Association--
            (1) at the place where the vessel is located on the date of 
        the approval of the conveyance;
            (2) in its condition on that date; and
            (3) without cost to the Government.
    (d) Expiration.--The authority of the Secretary to convey vessels 
under this section expires on the date which is 2 years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act.
    (e) Treatment of Amounts Available to Association.--Amounts 
available to, or used by, the Association pursuant to subparagraph (B) 
or (C) of subsection (b)(2) shall not be considered in any 
determination of the amounts available to the Department of the 
Interior for the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.

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