[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1731 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1731

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 9, 1998

   Ms. Snowe 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 FALLS POINT.

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

SECTION 1. CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION.

    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 FALLS POINT, United States official 
number 346217.
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