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 90 STAT. 2708

PUBLIC LAW 94-572—OCT. 21, 1976

Public Law 94-572 94th Congress An Act Oct. 2 1. 1976 [H.R. 10192]

U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadets, nondiscriminatory appointment; certain coastwise vessels.

Vessels, Barbara Ann, Bruja Mar, and Mary M.

To amend title 14, United States Code, to provide for the nondiscriminatory appointment of cadets to the United States Coast Guard Academy.

Be it enacted by the Senate and Hoitse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a) of section 182 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the second sentence thereof two new sentences as follows: "All such appointments shall be made without regard to the sex, race, color, or religious beliefs of an applicant. In the administration of this chapter, the Secretary shall take such action as may be necessary and appropriate to insure that female individuals shall be eligible for appointment and admission to the Coast Guard Academy, and that the relevant standards required for appointment, admission, training, graduation, and commissioning of female individuals shall be the same as those required for male individuals, except for those minimum essential adjustments in such standards required because of physiological differences between male and female individuals.". SEC. 2. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4132 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (46 U.S.C. 11), or any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating (1) shall cause the vessels, Barbara Ann (vessel numbered 529835), presentlv jointly owned, with right of survivorship, by Keith E. and Barbara Malcolm of Marine City, Michigan, and Bruja Mar (vessel numbered 546133), presently owned by Greenwood Marine, Incorporated, a Louisiana corporation, to be documented as vessels of the United States with the privilege of engaging in the coastwise trade, and (2) shall cause the vessel, Mary M (vessel numbered 230483), presently owned by Charles Hammond, Junior, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, to be documented as a vessel of the United States with the privilege of engaging in the American fisheries, such documentation to be conditional upon compliance with all the requirements for such documentation other than the requirement that the vessel be built in the United States. (b) The provisions of this section shall remain in effect for the Barbara Ann so long as the vessel continues in its present joint ownership, or in the ownership of the survivor thereof, and for the Bruja Mar so long as the vessel continues in its present ownership. Approved October 21, 1976.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 94-1109 (Gomm. on Merchant Marine and Fisheries). SENATE REPORT No. 94-1186 (Comm. on Commerce). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 122 (1976): May 18, considered and passed House. Sept. 13, considered and passed Senate, amended. Oct. 1, House agreed to Senate amendment with an amendment; Senate agreed to House amendment.

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