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 PUBLIC LAW 96-111—NOV. 15, 1979

93 STAT. 845

Public Law 96-111 96th Congress An Act To revitalize the pleasure cruise industry by clarifsring and waiving certain restrictions in the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, and the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, to permit the entry of the steamship vessel United States, steamship vessel Oceanic Independence, steamship vessel Santa Rosa, and the steamship vessels Mariposa and Monterey into the trade.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 506 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. 1156), section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 U.S.C. 883), and any other provision of law, the Secretary of the department in which the United States Coast Guard is operating shall cause the vessel Oceanic Independence (official Coast Guard numbered 261147) and the vessel steamship Santa Rosa (official Coast Guard numbered 276598) to be documented as vessels of the United States entitled to engage in the coastwise trade, so long as— (1) in the case of the Oceanic Independence— (A) the vessel is in compliance with all other requirements for vessels engaging in the coastwise trade, (B) any rebuilding of the vessel or repair work constituting a rebuilding, accomplished after enactment of this Act, shall be effected within the United States, its territories (not including trust territories), or its possessions, except that the vessel shall not lose its coastwise privileges by reason of having work necessary to install bow thrusters in the vessel and to equip it with a marine sewer sanitation system performed outside the United States, its territories (not including the trust territories) or its possessions before the vessel engages in the coastwise trade following enactment of this Act, (C) the vessel is owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States as defined in the applicable laws prescribing the qualifications for vessels to engage in the coastwise trade, and (D) for hire carriage in such trade is limited to passengers, their accompanying baggage, and one thousand measurement tons of cargo, of forty cubic feet each, per annum in any coastwise trade: Provided, That for hire carriage of cargo in excess of the aforesaid one thousand tons shall be unlawful, (2) in the case of the steamship Santa Rosa— (A) prior to such documentation the owner of the steamship Santa Rosa repays to the Secretary of Commerce, upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, an amount which bears the same proportion to the total construction differential subsidy paid for such vessel as the remaining economic life of the vessel computed from the date of documentation bears to the total economic life of the vessel, and

Nov. 15, 1979 [S. 1281]

Steamship vessels, waiver of trade restrictions.

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