[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4863 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4863

      To authorize the sale and reregistration of certain vessels.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 1994

  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 the sale and reregistration of certain vessels.

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

SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF SALE AND REREGISTRATION.

    Notwithstanding any other law or any agreement with the United 
States Government, the vessels SS LAKE CHARLES (United States official 
number 619531) and SS LOUISIANA (United States official number 619532) 
may be sold to a person that is not a citizen of the United States and 
transferred to or placed under a foreign registry if an application to 
authorize payment of operating-differential subsidy to the vessels is 
filed at any time during the 20-year period after construction of the 
vessels and is denied or 90 days elapses after the filing of that 
application.
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