REPORTS SEC. 7. (a) The President shall transmit to the Congress in January of each year a report, which shall include (1) a comprehensive description of the activities and the accomplishments of all agencies and departments of the United States in the field of marine science during the preceding fiscal year, and (2) an evaluation of such activities and accomplishments in terms of the objectives set forth pursuant to this Act. (b) Reports made under this section shall contain such recommendations for legislation as the President may consider necessary or desirable for the attainment of the objectives of this Act, and shall contain an estimate of funding requirements of each agency and department of the United States for marine science activities during the succeeding fiscal year. DEFINITIONS SEC. 8. For the purposes of this Act the term "marine science" shall be deemed to apply to oceanographic and scientific endeavors and disciplines, and engineering and technology in and with relation to the marine environment; and the term "marine environment" shall be deemed to include (a) the oceans, (b) the Continental Shelf of the United States, (c) the Great Lakes, (d) seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas adjacent to the coasts of the United States to the depth of two hundred meters, or beyond that limit, to where the depths of the superjacent waters admit of the exploitation of the natural resources of such areas, (e) the seabed and subsoil of similar submarine areas adjacent to the coasts of islands which comprise United States territory, and (f) the resources thereof. AUTHORIZATION SEC. 9. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act, but sums appropriated for any one fiscal year shall not exceed $1,500,000. Approved June 17, 1966. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 1025 (Comm. on Merohant Marine & Fisheries) and No. 1548 (Comm. of Conference). SENATE REPORT No. 528 (Comm. on Commerce). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Vol. 111 (1965): Aug. 5, considered and passed Senate. Vol. 112 (1966): May 26, House agreed to conference report. 89th Congress, S. 2142 An Act To simplify the admeasurement of small vessels. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4148 Small vessels. of the Revised Statutes (46 U.S.C. 71) is amended to read as follows: Admeasurement "SEC. 4148. (a) Before a vessel is documented under the laws of simplification. the United States or issued a certificate of record she shall be admeasured by the Secretary of the Treasury as provided in subsection (b) or (c) of this section. A vessel which has been admeasured need not be readmeasured solely to obtain another document, unless it is a vessel admeasured under subsection (b) which is required to be readmeasured under subsection (c); but a vessel which is intended to be used exclusively as a pleasure vessel may at the owner's option 80 STAT. 229 be readmeasured under subsection (b). 80 STAT. 230 "(b) Subject to the owner's option to have his vessel admeasured Gross and net under subsection (c) of this section, a vessel which is intended to be tonnages, used exclusively as a pleasure vessel shall be assigned gross and net tonnages which are the product of its length, breadth, and depth in feet and appropriate coefficients. The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe the manner in which the length, breadth, and depth shall be measured and the appropriate coefficients to be applied, taking due account of variations in vessel construction, to the end that, taken as a group and so far as practicable, the resulting gross tonnages shall reasonably reflect the relative internal volumes of the vessels admeasured and the resulting net tonnages shall be in the same ratio to the corresponding gross tonnages as the net and gross tonnages of comparable vessels if admeasured under subsection (c) of this section. "(c) A vessel not admeasured under subsection (b) of this section, or a vessel admeasured under subsection (b) which is thereafter to be documented for use other than exclusively as a pleasure vessel, shall be admeasured as prescribed in sections 4150, 4151, and 4153 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (46 U.S.C. 74, 75, 77). "(d) Whenever a vessel documented under the laws of the United States undergoes a change affecting tonnage, or its owner or the Secretary of the Treasury alleges error in its tonnage, it shall be readmeasured to the extent necessary and its tonnage redetermined under this section. "(e) The tonnage of a vessel for which a document or certificate of record has been issued before the effective date of this subsection need not be redetermined solely because of amendments to Federal law enacted at the same time as this subsection; but if it is eligible for admeasurement under subsection (b) of this section its owner shall have the option of having it readmeasured under that subsection. "(f) The Secretary of the Treasury shall make such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and intent of this section and of sections 4149, 4150, 4151, and 4153 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (46 U.S.C. 72, 74, 75, 77)." SEC. 2. The following statutes and parts of statutes are repealed: (a) Section 4152 of the Revised Statutes (46 U.S.C. 76). (b) The second and third paragraphs following paragraph (i), and the first sentence of the last paragraph, reading "The register of the vessel shall express the number of decks, the tonnage under the tonnage deck, that of the between decks, above the tonnage decks; also that of the poop or other enclosed spaces above the deck, each sepa Repeals. 80 STAT, 230 Effective date. rately.", of section 4153 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (46 (c) Section 4181 of the Revised Statutes (46 U.S.C. 73). (e) Section 2 of the Act of March 2, 1895 (ch. 173, 28 Stat. 743; (f) Section 4 of the Act of March 2, 1895 (ch. 173, 28 Stat. 743), as SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon the expiration of ninety days Approved June 29, 1966. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 1618 (Comm. on Merchant Marine & Fisheries). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Vol. 111 (1965): Sept. 8, considered and passed Senate. 89th Congress, H. R. 8000 An Act To amend the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920, relating to fees for certification of certain documents, and for other purposes. 80 STAT. 795 Documents. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third sen- Ship Mortgage tence of subsection I of the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920 (41 Stat. 1002; Act, 1920, 46 U.S.C. 927), is amended by striking out the period at the end there- amendments. of and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the following: "except that if a person requesting certification of more than ten copies of a mortgage which includes more than one vessel, furnishes such copies to the collector, the fee for certification of each copy in excess of ten shall be $1 per copy." SEC. 2. (a) Subsection E of the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920 (42 41 Stat. 1001. U.S.C. 923), is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following: 46 USC 923. "The requirement of this subsection that a copy of a preferred mortgage be placed and retained on board the mortgaged vessel shall not apply in the case of a mortgaged vessel which is not self-propelled (including but not limited to, barges, scows, lighters, and car floats)." (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) of this section shall apply to all mortgages whether made before, on, or after the date of enactment of this section. Approved September 16, 1966. LEG IS LATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 1773 (Comm. on Merchant Marine & Fisheries). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 112 (1966): Aug. 1: Considered and passed House. 89th Congress, S. 2858 An Act To amend section 502 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, relating to construction differential subsidies. 80 STAT, 811 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proviso in Vessels. the second sentence of subsection (b) of section 502 of the Merchant Construction subMarine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. 1152 (b)), is amended by sidy, extension. striking out "June 30, 1966", and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, 79 Stat. 519. 1968". Approved September 19, 1966. 76 Stat. 1200; LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 1617 accompanying H. R. 12591 (Comm. on Merchant Marine & Fisheries) and No. 1861 (Comm. of Conference).. SENATE REPORT No. 1198 (Comm. on Commerce). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 112 (1966): June 15: Considered and passed Senate. June 20: Considered and passed House, amended, in lieu of H. R. 12591. Aug. 18: House agreed to conference report. Sept. 1: Senate agreed to conference report. |