[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 113 (Monday, July 29, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S9037]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION FOR THE VESSEL ``MOONRAKER''

  The bill (S. 1545) to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to 
issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade endorsement 
for the vessel Moonraker, and for other purposes, was considered, 
ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and 
passed; as follows:

                                S. 1545

       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, 1996 
     (24 Stat. 81, chapter 421; 46 U.S.C. App. 289), and sections 
     12106 through 12108 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 MOONRAKER, United States 
     official number 645981.

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