[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3512 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3512

   To provide a statutory waiver of compliance with the Jones Act to 
   foreign-flagged vessels assisting in responding to the Deepwater 
                           Horizon oil spill.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 18, 2010

 Mrs. Hutchison (for herself, Mr. LeMieux, and Mr. Cornyn) 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 provide a statutory waiver of compliance with the Jones Act to 
   foreign-flagged vessels assisting in responding to the Deepwater 
                           Horizon oil spill.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Water Assistance from International 
Vessels for Emergency Response Act''.

SEC. 2. WAIVERS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, section 12112 and 
chapter 551 of title 46, United States Code, shall not apply to any 
vessel documented under the laws of a foreign country while that vessel 
is engaged in containment, remediation, or associated activities in the 
Gulf of Mexico in connection with the mobile offshore drilling unit 
Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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