American Coastal Waters and Shorelines Protection Act

American Coastal Waters and Shorelines Protection Act - Requires all vessels engaged in drilling for oil or gas in ocean waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, or in the support of such drilling, to be documented with a registry endorsement (current law refers only to mobile offshore drilling units).

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5613 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5613

 To require that vessels used to engage in drilling for oil or gas in 
ocean waters that are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States 
 must be documented under chapter 121 of title 46, United States Code.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 28, 2010

Mr. Cohen (for himself, Mr. Arcuri, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Filner, Mr. Kagen, 
Mr. Patrick J. Murphy of Pennsylvania, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Tierney, and Mr. 
   Yarmuth) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require that vessels used to engage in drilling for oil or gas in 
ocean waters that are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States 
 must be documented under chapter 121 of title 46, United States Code.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``American Coastal Waters and 
Shorelines Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENT FOR VESSELS USED FOR OFFSHORE OIL AND 
              GAS DRILLING.

    Subsection (d) of section 12111 of title 46, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Mobile 
        Offshore Drilling Unit'' and inserting ``Offshore Drilling'';
            (2) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ``or'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (3) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking the period and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (4) by adding at the end of paragraph (1) the following new 
        subparagraph:
                    ``(C) drilling for oil or gas in ocean waters 
                subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, or 
                support of such drilling.''.
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