[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 89 (Tuesday, June 7, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3560]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4482. Mr. NELSON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title XXXV add the following:

     SEC. ___. APPLICATION OF LAW.

       Section 4301 of title 46, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(d) For purposes of any Federal law, except the Federal 
     Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), any 
     vessel, including a foreign vessel, being repaired or 
     dismantled is deemed to be a recreational vessel, as defined 
     under section 2101(25) of this title, during such repair or 
     dismantling, if that vessel--
       ``(1) shares elements of design and construction of 
     traditional recreational vessels; and
       ``(2) when operating is not normally engaged in a military, 
     commercial, or traditionally commercial undertaking.''.
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