[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2444 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2444

To require the approval and implementation by the Secretary of Commerce 
 of a rule to provide a moratorium for a temporary period on the entry 
of new vessels into certain groundfish, crab, and halibut fisheries in 
                           the North Pacific.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 20 (legislative day, September 12), 1994

Mr. Gorton (for himself and Mr. Stevens) 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 require the approval and implementation by the Secretary of Commerce 
 of a rule to provide a moratorium for a temporary period on the entry 
of new vessels into certain groundfish, crab, and halibut fisheries in 
                           the North Pacific.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``North Pacific Vessels Entry 
Moratorium Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. IMPLEMENTATION OF MORATORIUM.

    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Commerce shall, by not later than October 15, 1994, approve and 
implement the proposed rule to establish a moratorium for a temporary 
period on the entry of new vessels into certain groundfish, crab, and 
halibut fisheries in the North Pacific and Bering Sea published on June 
3, 1994 at 59 Federal Register 28827.
    (b) The moratorium in subsection (a) shall remain in effect until 
December 31, 1997, or until the Secretary approves an amendment to such 
moratorium prepared by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council in 
accordance with the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act 
(16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), whichever is earlier.
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