[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1593 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1593

 To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to transfer, without regard to 
  the required waiting period, an obsolete naval vessel to the United 
 States Naval Shipbuilding Museum, Quincy, Massachusetts, upon making 
                        certain determinations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             October 27 (legislative day, October 13), 1993

  Mr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to transfer, without regard to 
  the required waiting period, an obsolete naval vessel to the United 
 States Naval Shipbuilding Museum, Quincy, Massachusetts, upon making 
                        certain determinations.

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

SECTION 1. WAIVER OF WAITING PERIOD TO TRANSFER VESSEL.

    Notwithstanding subsection (c)(2) of section 7308 of title 10, 
United States Code, the Secretary of the Navy may transfer under such 
section the obsolete heavy cruiser U.S.S. Salem to the United States 
Naval Shipbuilding Museum in Quincy, Massachusetts, immediately upon 
the Secretary's determination that--
            (1) such cruiser is in environmentally safe condition as 
        determined by appropriate tests, including tests administered 
        by the Environmental Protection Agency; and
            (2) such Museum has adequate financial resources to 
        maintain such cruiser in a condition satisfactory to the 
        Department of the Navy.

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