[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1812 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1812

 To amend the Food for Progress Act of 1985 to clarify the application 
of other laws to the agricultural commodities furnished under that Act 
                   pursuant to the Vancouver Package.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 22, 1993

   Mr. Barrett of Nebraska introduced the following bill; which was 
referred jointly to the Committees on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and 
                              Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Food for Progress Act of 1985 to clarify the application 
of other laws to the agricultural commodities furnished under that Act 
                   pursuant to the Vancouver Package.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
    Section 1. Clarification of Application of Other Law To 
Agricultural Commodities Furnished Under the Food for Progress Act of 
1985 Pursuant to the Vancouver Package.--Section 1110 of the Food for 
Progress Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1736o) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection:
    ``(p)(1) Sections 901(b) and 901b of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, 
(46 U.S.C. app. 1241(b), 1241(f) shall not apply to the transport or 
carriage of any agricultural commodities furnished under this section 
pursuant to the Vancouver Package.
    ``(2) In this subsection, the term ``Vancouver Package'' means the 
United States food aid assistance for Russia that the President of the 
United States outlined in this meetings with the President of the 
Russian Federation in Vancouver, British Columbia in April 1993.

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