[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 95 (Wednesday, May 17, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26474-26475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12093]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket S-920]


Kadampanattu Corp.; Notice of Application for Temporary Written 
Consent Pursuant to Section 506 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as 
Amended, for the Temporary Transfer of the M/V STRONG/AMERICAN to the 
Domestic Trade

    Notice is hereby given that Allen Freight Trailer Bridge (ATFB), by 
letter of April 25, 1995, requested written consent pursuant to section 
506 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (Act), to temporarily 
transfer during the year commencing October 31, 1995, the construction-
differential subsidy (CDS) built, M/V STRONG/AMERICAN, exclusively to 
the domestic trade for a period not to exceed six months in any year 
period. The M/V STRONG/AMERICAN is an integrated tug barge unit, built 
in the United States with the aid of CDS, and owned by Kadampanattu 
Corp., an affiliate of ATFB.
    ATFB states that it operates a weekly RO/RO barge service between 
Jacksonville, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, utilizing two RO/RO 
barges owned by Kadampanattu Corp., the JAX-SAN JUAN BRIDGE and SAN 
JUAN-JAX BRIDGE. Each of these barges will require regulatory 
drydocking and repairs prior to February 28, 1996.
    AFTB explains that the M/V STRONG/AMERICAN has a capacity 
equivalent of 56 percent of the RO/RO barges to be drydocked. The 
STRONG/AMERICAN will require drydocking at considerable expense before 
it can be [[Page 26475]] placed in service, and without the requested 
waiver, such funds will not be expended. AFTB explains that the waiver 
sought herein would allow AFTB the necessary flexibility to complete 
drydocking and repairs to the RO/RO barges without disrupting the 
weekly service which is currently provided to the shipping public.
    Any person, firm, or corporation having any interest in the 
application for section 506 consent and desiring to submit comments 
concerning Kadampanattu Corp.'s request must by 5:00 p.m. on May 30, 
1995, file written comments in triplicate, to the Secretary, Maritime 
Administration, Room 7210, Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20590. The Maritime Administration, as a matter of 
discretion, will consider any comments submitted and take such action 
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: May 11, 1995.
Murray A. Bloom,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 95-12093 Filed 5-16-95; 8:45 am]
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