[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3165 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3165

  To authorize a foreign-built launch barge to transport an offshore 
 drilling platform jacket in the coastwise trade of the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 1993

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize a foreign-built launch barge to transport an offshore 
 drilling platform jacket in the coastwise trade of the United States.

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

SECTION 1. COASTWISE TRADE AUTHORIZATION.

    Notwithstanding section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 
App. U.S.C. 883), or any other provision of law restricting the 
operation of a foreign-flag vessel in the coastwise trade of the United 
States, the foreign-flag vessel H-851 may engage in the coastwise trade 
of the United States to transport an offshore drilling platform jacket 
from a place near Aransas Pass, Texas, to a site on the Outer 
Continental Shelf known as Viosca Knoll 989.

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