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PUBLIC LAW 91-590-DEC. 28, 1970

Resident Commissioners, no longer serving after the issuance of the hardbound revised edition prepared pursuant to such clause and who received such edition, may receive one copy of each cumulative pocketpart supplement thereto upon timely request. SEC. 4. Additional copies of each hardbound decennial revised edition and of the cumulative pocket-part supplements thereto shall be printed and distributed in accordance with the provisions of any concurrent resolution hereafter adopted with respect thereto. SEC. 5. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums, to remain available until expended, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this joint resolution. Approved December 24, 1970,

1587

Appropriation.

Public Law 91-590 AN ACT To amend section 303(b) of the Interstate Commerce Act to modernize certain restrictions upon the application and scope of the exemption provided therein, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 303(b) of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended (49 U.S.C. 903(b)), is amended to read as follows: "(b) Nothing in this part shall apply to the transportation by a water carrier of commodities in bulk when the cargo space of the vessel in which such commodities are transported is being used for the carrying of not more than three such commodities. This subsection shall apply only in the case of commodities in bulk which are (in accordance with the existing custom of the trade in the handling and transportation of such commodities as of June 1, 1939) loaded and carried without wrappers or containers and received and delivered by the carrier without transportation mark or count. The* exemption afforded under this subsection to the transportation by a water carrier of commodities in bulk shall not be lost by the concurrent transportation in the same vessel of other commodities. For the purposes of this subsection two or more vessels while navigated as a unit shall be considered to be a single vessel. This subsection shall not apply to transportation subject, at the time this part takes effect, to the provisions of the Intercoastal Shipping Act, 1933, as amended." SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall expire at the end of the three-year period beginning on the date of its enactment. The Secretary of Transportation shall undertake a comprehensive study of the present system of economic regulation of dry bulk commodity transportation, including information on amounts actually charged for the movement of dry bulk commodities; of the effect of this Act upon the carriers to whom it applies and upon the shippers of dry bulk commodities; and what changes in the existing regulatory system, if a n j, would be desirable to improve competitive conditions between carriers of different modes whether or not subject to the provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act. The Interstate Commerce Commission and the Secretary of the Army are directed to cooperate fully with the Secretary of Transportation in carrying out the purposes of this Act, and to submit such independent and separate comments and views as those agencies deem appropriate. The Secretary shall transmit the results of such study to the Congress within two years after the date of enactment of this Act. 47-348 O - 72 - 17 (Pt. 2)

December 28, 1970

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