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Permitting Foreign Hovercraft in Alaska |
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ALASKAN HOVERCRAFT JULY29.1983 -- Committe to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. JONES of North Carolina, from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 1372] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries to whom was referred the bill (H.R.1372) to provide for the operation of certain foreign-built vessels in the coastwise trade of Alaska until November 6, 1988, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: That, notwithstanding section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, or any other law restricting the coastwise trade to vessels of the United States, the vessels Yukon Princess I and Act-100 may operate within the State of Alaska until November 6, 1985. The repair or reconstruction of either vessel is subject to the same requirements as a vessel qualified to engage in the coastwise trade. Sec.2. A vessel named in section 1 may continue to operate until November 6, 1990 if the owner of that vessel, before November 6, 1985 contracts to build or purchase a new, comparable hovercraft vessel built in the United States. THE PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The bill provides that two foreign-built hovercraft, presently covered under separate Jones Act exemptions, may continue to operate for a 2-year period in the waters of the State of Alaska. If the owners of either of those vessels contract to build or buy a new comparable hovercraft in the United States then may |
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The purpose of the bill is to permit the continued use of foreign-built hovercraft in the State of Alaska and to promote the development of a domestic hovercraft industry.