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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket A-184]

 

Keystone Shipping Co., et al. v. United States of America, Civil 
Action No. 90-2762

    The Maritime Administration (MARAD) is providing an opportunity for 
submission of comments by all interested parties concerning the remand 
by the District Court for the District of Columbia on September 2, 
1992, in Civil Action No. 90-2762. The court examined the Coast Guard 
and MARAD determinations that the SEABULK AMERICA is eligible for 
coastwise trade. The SEABULK AMERICA was constructed by the joining of 
the stern of the FUJI, a wrecked foreign-built vessel, and the forebody 
of the Barge 4102, a U.S.-built vessel constructed and acquired, 
respectively, with the aid of construction-differential subsidy (CDS) 
and the capital construction fund (CCF). In accordance with the Wrecked 
Vessel Act (WVA) the Coast Guard concluded that joining the FUJI stern 
and the Barge 4102 forebody was a rebuilding of the FUJI and that the 
rebuilt FUJI, renamed SEABULK AMERICA, was eligible for coastwise 
documentation. Based on the Coast Guard determination that the 
resulting vessel was the rebuilt FUJI, MARAD determined that the Barge 
4102 had ceased to exist as a vessel, thereby extinguishing the 
contractual restrictions on the Barge 4102's participation in domestic 
trade.
    The court remanded both the Coast Guard and MARAD determinations 
for a fuller explanation. The Coast Guard has not yet responded. MARAD 
was specifically directed to analyze the competitive effect of lifting 
the CDS and CCF domestic trade restrictions and to explain how such 
action comports with the purposes and policy of the Merchant Marine 
Act, 1936, as amended.
    Any person, firm, or corporation having any interest in this matter 
and desiring to submit comments must file written comments in 
triplicate, to the Secretary, Maritime Administration, Room 7300, 
Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. 
Comments must be received no later than 5 p.m. on April 18, 1994. This 
notice is published as a matter of discretion. The Maritime 
Administration will consider any comments submitted and take such 
action with respect thereto as may be deemed appropriate.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program No. 20.800 
Construction-Differential Subsidies (CDS)).

    By Order of the Maritime Administrator.

    Dated: March 24, 1994.
James E. Saari,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 94-7405 Filed 3-29-94; 8:45 am]
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