[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1349 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1349

To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of 
   documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the 
  coastwise trade for the vessel PRINCE NOVA, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 30, 1997

Mr. Dodd (for himself and Mr. Lieberman) 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 authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of 
   documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the 
  coastwise trade for the vessel PRINCE NOVA, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. DOCUMENTATION OF THE VESSEL PRINCE NOVA.

    (a) Documentation Authorized.--Notwithstanding section 27 of the 
Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 U.S.C. App. 883), section 8 of the Act of 
June 19, 1886 (24 Stat. 81, chapter 421; 46 U.S.C. App. 289), and 
section 12106 of title 46, United States Code, the Secretary of 
Transportation may issue a certificate of documentation with 
appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the 
vessel PRINCE NOVA (Canadian registration number 320804).
    (b) Expiration of Certificate.--A certificate of documentation 
issued for the vessel under subsection (a) shall expire unless--
            (1) the vessel undergoes conversion, reconstruction, 
        repair, rebuilding, or retrofitting in a shipyard located in 
        the United States;
            (2) the cost of that conversion, reconstruction, repair, 
        rebuilding, or retrofitting is not less than the greater of--
                    (A) 3 times the purchase value of the vessel before 
                the conversion, reconstruction, repair, rebuilding, or 
                retrofitting; or
                    (B) $4,200,000; and
            (3) not less than an average of $1,000,000 is spent 
        annually in a shipyard located in the United States for 
        conversion, reconstruction, repair, rebuilding, or retrofitting 
        of the vessel until the total amount of the cost required under 
        paragraph (2) is spent.
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