To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel M/T MISS LINDA.

April 11, 2003

Mr. SCHROCK introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel M/T MISS LINDA.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 App. U.S.C. 883) and section 12106 of title 46, United States Code, the Secretary of Transportation may issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel M/T MISS LINDA, a steel hull tugboat that is 35 feet in length, was constructed in approximately 1929 at the Bath Iron Works Shipyard in Bath, Maine, and is owned on the date of the enactment of this Act by East Bay Construction Corporation, located in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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