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 102 STAT. 432

PUBLIC LAW 100-298—APR. 28, 1988

Public Law 100-298 100th Congress An Act A nt* 98 1 Q8ft ' [S. 858]

Abandoned

Shipwreck Act of 1987. iHflntiins

affairs. 43 USC 2101 note. 43 USC 2101.

43 USC 2102.

To establish the title of States in certain abandoned shipwrecks, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. __

This Act may be cited as the "Abandoned Shipwreck Act of 1987".

SEC. 2. FINDINGS. The Congress finds that— (a) States have the responsibiHty for management of a broad range of living and nonhving resources in State waters and submerged lands; and (b) included in the range of resources are certain abandoned shipwrecks, which have been deserted and to which the owner has relinquished ownership rights with no retention. SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Act— (a) the term "embedded" means firmly affixed in the submerged lands or in coralline formations such that the use of tools of excavation is required in order to move the bottom sediments to gain access to the shipwreck, its cargo, and any part thereof; (b) the term "National Register" means the National Register of Historic Places maintained by the Secretary of the Interior under section 101 of the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470a); (c) the terms "public lands", "Indian lands", and "Indian tribe" have the same meaning given the terms in the Archaeological Resource Protection Act of 1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa-47011); (d) the term "shipwreck" means a vessel or wreck, its cargo, and other contents; (e) the term "State" means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands; and (f) the term "submerged lands" means the lands— (1) that are "lands beneath navigable waters," as defined in section 2 of the Submerged Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1301); (2) of Puerto Rico, as described in section 8 of the Act of March 2, 1917, as amended (48 U.S.C. 749); (3) of Guam, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa, as described in section 1 of Public Law 93-435 (48 U.S.C. 1705); and (4) of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as described in section 801 of Public Law 94-241 (48 U.S.C. 1681).

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