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 1182 Active duty personnel strength.

14 USC 764.

Bridge owners, payments.

Dependent children outside U.S., schooling and transportation.

V e s s e l s used in c o a s t w i s e trade, leadlines.

Internal combustion e n g i n e s, exemptions.

PUBLIC LAW 93.430-OCT. 1, 1974

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SEC. 2. For fiscal year 1975, the Coast Guard is authorized an end strength for active duty personnel of thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty-eight; except that the ceiling shall not include members of the Ready Reserve called to active duty under the provisions of Public Law 92-479. SEC. 3. For fiscal year 1975, military training student loads for the Coast Guard are authorized as follows: (1) recruit and special training, four thousand and eighty man-years; (2) flight training, eighty-five man-years; (3) professional training in military and civilian institutions, three hundred and seventy-five man-years; and (4) officer acquisition training, one thousand one hundred and sixty man-years. SEC. 4. For use of the Coast Guard for payment to bridge owners for the cost of alterations of railroad bridges and public highway bridges to permit free navigation of navigable waters of the United States, $6,800,000 is hereby authorized. SEC. 5. Section 657 of title 14, United States Code, is amended— (a) by deleting from the catchline the semicolon and the words following "children"; (b) by designating the existing section as subsection (b); and (c) by inserting a new subsection (a) as follows: " (a) Except as otherw^ise authorized by the Act of September 30, 1950 (20 U.S.C. 236-244), the Secretary may provide, out of funds appropriated to or for the use of the Coast Guard, for the primary and secondary schooling of dependents of Coast Guard personnel stationed outside the continental United States at costs for any given area not in excess of those of the Department of Defense for the same area, when it is determined by the Secretary that the schools, if any, available in the locality are unable to provide adequately for the education of those dependents.". SEC. 6. (1) Section 1(b) of the Act of August 27, 1935 (46 U.S.C. 88), as amended, is further amended by inserting the words "and all vessels of not more than five thousand gross tons used in the processing or assembling of fishery products in the fisheries of the States of Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, except those constructed after August 15, 1974, or those converted to any of such services after July 11, 1978," after the words "from July 11, 1968," but before the words "are exempt", (2) The first proviso of section 1 of the Act of June 20, 1936 (46 U.S.C. 367), as amended, is further amended by deleting the last two sentences and inserting in lieu thereof: "As used herein, the phrase 'any vessel' engaged in fishing, oystering, clamming, crabbing, or any other branch of the fishery or kelp or sponge industries includes cannery tender or fishing tender vessels of not more than five hundred gross tons used in the salmon or crab fisheries of the States of Oregon, Washington, and Alaska which are engaged exclusively in (1) the carriage of cargo to or from vessels in the fishery or a facility used or to be used in the processing or assembling of fishery products, or (2) the transportation of cannery or fishing personnel to or from operating locations, and vessels of not more than five thousand gross tons used in the processing or assembling of fishery products in the fisheries of the States of

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