[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 113 (Monday, July 29, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9031-S9032]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION FOR THREE VESSELS

  The bill (S. 528) to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to 
issue a certificate of documentation with coastwise trade endorsement 
for three vessels, was considered, ordered to be engrossed for a third 
reading, read the third time, and passed; as follows:

                                 S. 528

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

     SECTION 1. COASTWISE TRADE AUTHORIZATION FOR HOVERCRAFT.

       Notwithstanding section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 
     (46 U.S.C. App. 883), the Act of June 19, 1886 (46 U.S.C. 
     App. 289), and sections 12106 and 12107 of title 46, United 
     States Code, the Secretary of Transportation may issue a 
     certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for 
     each of the vessels IDUN VIKING (Danish Registration

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     number A433), LIV VIKING (Danish Registration number A394), 
     and FREJA VIKING (Danish Registration number A395) if--
       (1) all repair and alteration work on the vessels necessary 
     to their operation under this section is performed in the 
     United States;
       (2) a binding contract for the construction in the United 
     States of at least 3 similar vessels for the coastwise trade 
     is executed by the owner of the vessels within 6 months after 
     the date of enactment of this Act; and
       (3) the vessels constructed under the contract entered into 
     under paragraph (1) are to be delivered within 3 years after 
     the date of entering into that contract.

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