[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4078 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4078

To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of 
   documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the 
             coastwise trade for the vessel REGENT RAINBOW.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 12, 1996

  Mr. Tauzin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of 
   documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the 
             coastwise trade for the vessel REGENT RAINBOW.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding 
section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 App. U.S.C. 883), 
section 8 of the Act of June 19, 1886 (46 App. U.S.C. 289), section 
12106 of title 46, United States Code, section 506 of the Merchant 
Marine Act, 1936 (46 App. U.S.C. 1156), and any agreement with the 
United States Government, the Secretary of Transportation may issue a 
certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for 
employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel REGENT RAINBOW 
(Bahamas official number 715557), after the completion of the sale of 
the REGENT RAINBOW to an operator of another passenger vessel measuring 
more that 20,000 gross tons that on the day before the date of the 
enactment of this Act is in operation with a coastwise endorsement.
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