[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2213 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2213

To allow an exception from making formal entry for a vessel required to 
   anchor at Belle Isle Anchorage, Port of Detroit, Michigan, while 
 awaiting the availability of cargo or for the purpose of taking on a 
 pilot or awaiting pilot services, prior to proceeding to the Port of 
                             Toledo, Ohio.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 1999

  Ms. Kaptur introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To allow an exception from making formal entry for a vessel required to 
   anchor at Belle Isle Anchorage, Port of Detroit, Michigan, while 
 awaiting the availability of cargo or for the purpose of taking on a 
 pilot or awaiting pilot services, prior to proceeding to the Port of 
                             Toledo, Ohio.

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

SECTION 1. EXCEPTION FROM MAKING FORMAL ENTRY FOR CERTAIN VESSELS.

    Section 441 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1441) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(7) Any vessel required to anchor at the Belle Isle 
        Anchorage in the waters of the Detroit River in the State of 
        Michigan, for the purposes of awaiting the availability of 
        cargo or berthing space or for the purpose of taking on a pilot 
        or awaiting pilot services, or at the direction of the Coast 
        Guard, prior to proceeding to the Port of Toledo, Ohio, where 
        the vessel makes entry under section 434 or obtains clearance 
        under section 4197 of the Revised Statutes of the United 
        States.''.
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