[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14951]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 1189. Mr. KERRY (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, and Ms. Snowe) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 
1246, to respond to the continuing economic crisis adversely affecting 
American agricultural producers; which was ordered to lie on the table 
as follows:

       On page 45, line 25, insert the following:

     SEC. 604. EMERGENCY DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR ATLANTIC 
                   NORTHEAST MULTISPECIES FISHERMEN.

       (a) Assistance.--The Secretary shall use $10,000,000 of 
     funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make payments to 
     Atlantic Northeast multispecies fishermen adversely affected 
     by commercial fishery failures in the Atlantic Northeast 
     multispecies fishery.
       (b) Objectives.--The payments shall be made in support of a 
     voluntary fishing capacity reduction program in the Atlantic 
     Northeast multispecies fishery that is designed to achieve, 
     by means of permanent revocation of multispecies, limited 
     access fishing permits, the following objectives:
       (1) To obtain the maximum sustained reduction in fishing 
     capacity at the least cost and in the minimum period of time.
       (2) To prevent the replacement of fishing capacity removed 
     under the program.
       (c) Determinations of Commercial Fishery Failures.--The 
     commercial fishery failures referred to in subsection (a) are 
     those that are determined under section 308(b)(1) of the 
     Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act of 1986 (16 U.S.C. 
     4107(b)(1)) for the purposes of that section.

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