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 116 STAT. 2108 PUBLIC LAW 107-295—NOV. 25, 2002 use of commercial VHF services, and digital selective calling services that meet or exceed Global Maritime Distress and Safety System requirements adopted under the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea; (6) identify the number of VHF-FM radios equipped with digital selective calling sold to United States boaters; (7) list all reported marine accidents, casualties, and fatalities occurring in areas with existing communications gaps or failures, including incidents associated with gaps in VHF-FM coverage or digital selected calling capabilities and failures associated with inadequate communications equipment aboard the involved vessels during calendar years 1997 and thereafter; (8) identify existing systems available to close all identified marine safety gaps before January 1, 2003, including expeditious receipt and response by appropriate Coast Guard operations centers to VHF-FM digital selective calling distress signal; and (9) identify actions taken to-date to implement the recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board in its Report No. MAR -99-01. SEC. 347. CONVEYANCE OF COAST GUARD PROPERTY IN PORTLAND, MAINE. (a) AUTHORITY To CONVEY.— (1) IN GENERAL. — The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, or a designee of the Secretary, may convey to the Gulf of Maine Aquarium Development Corporation, its successors and assigns, without payment for consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to approximately 4.13 acres of land, including a pier and bulkhead, known as the Naval Reserve Pier property, together with any improvements thereon in their then current' condition, located in Portland, Maine. All conditions placed with the deed of title shall be construed as covenants running with the land. (2) IDENTIFICATION OF PROPERTY.— The Secretary, in consultation with the Commandant of the Coast Guard, may identify, describe, and determine the property to be conveyed under this section. The floating docks associated with or attached to the Naval Reserve Pier property shall remain the personal property of the United States. (b) LEASE TO THE UNITED STATES. — (1) CONDITION OF CONVEYANCE.—The Naval Reserve Pier property shall not be conveyed until the Corporation enters into a lease agreement with the United States, the terms of which are mutually satisfactory to the Comma: idant and the Corporation, in which the Corporation shall lease a portion of the Naval Reserve Pier property to the United States for a term of 30 years without payment of consideration. The lease agreement shall be executed within 12 months after the date of enactment of this Act. (2) IDENTIFICATION OF LEASED PREMISES.— The Secretary, in consultation with the Commandant, may identify and describe the leased premises and rights of access, including the following, in order to allow the Coast Guard to operate and perform missions from and upon the leased premises:

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