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 106 STAT. 5094 PUBLIC LAW 102-587—NOV. 4, 1992 Effective date. 50 USC app. 1744 note. SEC. 6203. MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. For Fiscal Year 1993, $242,000 is authorized to be appropriated to the Maritime Administration for the Massachusetts Center for Marine Environmental Protection located at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. SEC. 6204. FEDERAL SHIP MORTGAGE INSURANCE FOR CERTAIN CONSTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION. Section 1104B(b)(2) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (46 App. U.S.C. 1274a(b)(2)) is amended by striking "73 percent" and inserting "87y2 percent". SEC. 6205. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. (a) MERCHANT SHIP SALES ACT OF 1946.— Section 11(b) of the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 (50 App. U.S.C. 1744), as amended by section 6 of the Act of October 13, 1989 (Public Law 101- 115; 103 Stat. 693; commonly referred to as the "Maritime Administration Authorization, 1990"), is amended to read as if it had not been repealed by section 307(12) of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-225; 103 Stat. 1925). The effective date of this subsection is December 12, 1989. (b) MERCHANT MARINE ACT, 1920.—Section 19 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 App. U.S.C. 876) is amended— (1) in paragraph (IXb) by striking "sysetms" and inserting "systems"; and (2) in paragraph (7)(d) by striking "in proceedings under paragraph (l)(b)(7) of this section," and inserting "under subdivision (b),". Partnerships for Wildlife Act. 16 USC 3741 note. 16 USC 3741. TITLE Vn—PARTNERSHIPS FOR WILDLIFE SEC. 7101. SHORT TITLE. This Title may be cited as the "Partnerships for Wildlife Act". SEC. 7102. FINDINGS. The Congress finds the following: (1) Three-fourths of all American children and adults participate in wildlife-related recreational activities other than hunting, fishing and trapping. (2) In 1985, Americans spent over $14 billion on nonconsumptive wildlife-related recreation. (3) The United States and Canada are inhabited by approximately two thousand six hundred vertebrate species of native fish and wildlife, which have provided food, clothing, and other essentials to a rapidly expanding human population. (4) Over 80 percent of vertebrate fish and wildlife species in North America are not harvested for human use. (5) The continued well-being of this once-abimdant fish and wildlife resource, and even the very existence of many species, is in peril. (6) In 1967, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service reported that forty-five common migratory bird species, which are not hunted, had exhibited significant declines in abundance, and that thirteen of these species have experienced widespread.

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