[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1025 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1025

To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of 
   documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the 
                    fisheries for each of 3 vessels.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 4, 1999

  Mr. Sununu 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 
                    fisheries for each of 3 vessels.

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

SECTION 1. DOCUMENTATION OF 3 FISHING VESSELS.

    (a) Documentation Authorized.--Notwithstanding section 27 of the 
Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 App. U.S.C. 883) and sections 12106 and 
12108 of title 46, United States Code, the Secretary of Transportation 
may issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement 
for employment in the fisheries for each of the vessels GRAND-ENTREE 
(Canadian official number 329388), HAVRE-AUBERT (Canadian official 
number 331742), and FATIMA (Canadian official number 329379).
    (b) Work Required To Be Performed in United States Shipyards.--
            (1) In general.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to a 
        vessel, and any certificate of documentation issued under 
        subsection (a) for a vessel shall not be effective, after the 
        date of any conversion, reconstruction, repair, rebuilding, or 
        retrofitting of the vessel in a shipyard that is not located in 
        the United States.
            (2) Limitation.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to 
        conversion, reconstruction, repair, rebuilding, or retrofitting 
        of a vessel before March 4, 1999.
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