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    <AgencyName>Maritime Administration</AgencyName>
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        <Address>1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590</Address>
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            <NameColumnValue>Paul N. Jaenichen</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Paul N. Jaenichen</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Joel Szabat</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>(vacancy)</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Keith Washington, Acting</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Kevin M. Tokarski</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for National Security</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>H. Keith Lesnick</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Intermodal Systems  Development</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>John P. Quinn</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>George M. Zoukee</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Lydia Moschkin</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Franklin R. Parker</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Michael Novak</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Pattie Tom</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Julie P. Agarwal</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>James A. Helis, USMS</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Superintendent, United States Merchant Marine Academy</TitleColumnValue>
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              <Paragraph>The Maritime Administration was established by Reorganization Plan No. 21 of 1950 (5 U.S.C. app.). The Maritime Act of 1981 (46 U.S.C. 1601) transferred the Maritime Administration to the Department of Transportation. The Administration manages programs to aid in the development, promotion, and operation of the U.S. merchant marine. It is also charged with organizing and directing emergency merchant ship operations.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The Maritime Administration administers subsidy programs to pay the difference between certain costs of operating ships under the U.S. flag and foreign competitive flags on essential services, and the difference between the costs of constructing ships in U.S. and foreign shipyards. It provides financing guarantees for the construction, reconstruction, and reconditioning of ships; and enters into capital construction fund agreements that grant tax deferrals on moneys to be used for the acquisition, construction, or reconstruction of ships.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The Administration constructs or supervises the construction of merchant-type ships for the Federal Government. It helps industry generate increased business for U.S. ships and conducts programs to develop ports, facilities, and intermodal transport, and to promote domestic shipping.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>It conducts program and technical studies and administers a war risk insurance program that insures operators and seamen against losses caused by hostile action if domestic commercial insurance is not available.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>Under emergency conditions the Maritime Administration charters Government-owned ships to U.S. operators, requisitions or procures ships owned by U.S. citizens, and allocates them to meet defense needs.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>It maintains a national defense reserve fleet of Government-owned ships that it operates through ship managers and general agents when required in national defense interests. An element of this activity is the Ready Reserve force consisting of a number of ships available for quick-response activation.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The Administration regulates sales to aliens and transfers to foreign registry of ships that are fully or partially owned by U.S. citizens. It also disposes of Government-owned ships found nonessential for national defense.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The Administration operates the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY, where young people are trained to become merchant marine officers, and conducts training in shipboard firefighting at Toledo, OH. It also administers a Federal assistance program for the maritime academies operated by the States of California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, and Texas.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>For a complete list of Maritime Administration offices, go to   www.marad.dot.gov/about_us_landing_page/gateway_offices/Gateway_Presence.htm.</Paragraph>
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      <Footer>For further information, contact the Office of Congressional and Public Affairs, Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. Phone, 202-366-5807 or 800-996-2723.</Footer>
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      <WebAddress>http://www.marad.dot.gov</WebAddress>
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