To provide that carriage of an item of equipment to be used under a Federal contract for cleaning up radioactive waste from the production of nuclear weapons is not coastwise trade.

Declares that carriage by a foreign documented vessel of a Bowen spray dryer for use in cleaning up radioactive waste from the production of nuclear weapons at the Savannah River Plant site, South Carolina, shall not be considered in violation of U.S. laws prohibiting such vessels from engaging in coastwise trade.

[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 4743 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4743

  To provide that carriage of an item of equipment to be used under a 
Federal contract for cleaning up radioactive waste from the production 
               of nuclear weapons is not coastwise trade.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 13, 1994

 Mr. Kingston introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide that carriage of an item of equipment to be used under a 
Federal contract for cleaning up radioactive waste from the production 
               of nuclear weapons is not coastwise trade.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TRANSPORTATION OF ITEM OF EQUIPMENT TO BE USED FOR CLEAN UP 
              OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS PRODUCTION WASTE.

    (a) In General.--Transportation described in subsection (b) shall 
not be considered to be coastwise trade for purposes of section 27 of 
the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 App. U.S.C. 883), the Act of June 19, 
1886 (46 App. U.S.C. 289), section 12106 of title 46, United States 
Code, and any other law prohibiting engagement in coastwise trade by a 
vessel that is constructed in a foreign country, documented under the 
laws of a foreign country, or owned by a person that is not a citizen 
of the United States.
    (b) Transportation Described.--Transportation referred to in 
subsection (a) is carriage by vessel from a point near Oakland, 
California, to a point near Brunswick, Georgia, in the period beginning 
July 1, 1994, and ending December 1, 1994, of a Bowen spray dryer to be 
used under a contract between Westinghouse Savannah River Company and 
the Department of Energy in cleaning up radioactive waste from the 
production of nuclear weapons at the Savannah River Plant site, South 
Carolina.
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