[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 135 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 135

      To increase the role of the Secretary of Transportation in 
      administering section 901 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 21 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

  Mr. Inouye introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
      To increase the role of the Secretary of Transportation in 
      administering section 901 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That paragraph (2) of section 901(b) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 
(46 App. U.S.C. 1241(b)), is amended to read as follows:
    ``(2) The Secretary of Transportation shall have the sole 
responsibility for determining and designating those programs which are 
subject to the requirements of this subsection. Every department or 
agency having responsibility for the programs so designated by the 
Secretary of Transportation shall administer such programs with respect 
to this subsection under regulations issued by the Secretary of 
Transportation. The Secretary of Transportation shall review such 
administration and shall annually report to the Congress with respect 
thereto.''.

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