[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1792 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1792

 To amend title 46, United States Code, to require that any regulation 
establishing or increasing a fee or charge for a person engaged in the 
  carriage of goods or passengers by vessel for hire be issued after 
notice, hearing, and comment and on the record, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 1993

 Mr. Saxton (for himself, Mr. Tauzin, Mr. Fields of Texas, Mr. Hughes, 
   Mr. Bateman, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Coble, Mr. Hutto, Mr. Weldon, Mr. 
Laughlin, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Lancaster, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Hastings, Mr. 
Kingston, Mr. Stupak, Mr. Castle, Mr. King, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Gallo, 
 and Ms. Kaptur) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
             the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 46, United States Code, to require that any regulation 
establishing or increasing a fee or charge for a person engaged in the 
  carriage of goods or passengers by vessel for hire be issued after 
notice, hearing, and comment and on the record, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2110 of 
title 46, United States Code (relating to fees), is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(j)(1) The head of an agency may not establish or increase any 
fee or charge for a service or thing of value provided by the agency to 
a person or vessel described in paragraph (2), unless the rule 
establishing the fee or charge is issued--
            ``(A) after publication of notice, the holding of one or 
        more public hearings, and the provision of a period for the 
        submission of comments by the public regarding the proposed 
        rule; and
            ``(B) on the record.
    ``(2)(A) A person referred to in paragraph (1) is a person who--
            ``(i) is engaged in the carriage of goods or passengers by 
        vessel for hire;
            ``(ii) provides services to a person described in clause 
        (i), including the storage, dockside movement, loading, or 
        unloading of goods carried by vessel for hire; or
            ``(iii) exports or imports goods carried by vessel for hire 
        and is located in the United States.
    ``(B) A vessel referred to in paragraph (1) is a vessel that is 
used for the carriage of goods or passengers for hire.''.

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