DOCUMENTATION OF VESSELS.

SEC. 301. DOCUMENTATION OF VESSELS. (a) Technical Amendments.—Chapter 121 of title 46, United States Code, is amended as follows: (1) Section 12101(b) is amended— (A) in paragraph (1), by striking “registry as” and inserting “registry endorsement as”; (B) in paragraph (2), by striking “coastwise license” and inserting “coastwise endorsement”; (C) in paragraph (3), by striking “Great Lakes license” and inserting “Great Lakes endorsement”; (D) by repealing paragraph (4); and (E) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (4). (2) Section 12102 is amended— (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) of subsection (a)— (i) by inserting “that is” before “not”, and (ii) by inserting “or is not titled in a State” after “foreign country”; (B) by striking “(b)(1)” and inserting “(c)(1)”; (C) in subsection (c)(1) (as redesignated by subparagraph (B)), by striking “fishery license” and inserting “fishery endorsement”; and (D) by repealing subsection (c). (3) Section 12103 is amended— (A) in subsection (a), by striking “of one of the types” and inserting “endorsed with one or more of the endorsements”; and (B) in subsection (b)— (i) by striking “(b)” and inserting “(b)(1)”; and (ii) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(2) The Secretary shall require each person applying to document a vessel to provide— “(A) the person’s social security number; or “(B) for a person other than an individual— “(i) the person’s taxpayer identification number; or “(ii) if the person does not have a taxpayer identification number, the social security number of an individual who is a corporate officer, general partner, or individual trustee of the person and who signs the application for documentation for the vessels.”. (4) Section 12104(2) is amended by striking “vessel license,” and inserting “endorsement,”. (5) Section 12105 is amended— (A) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows: 103 STAT. 1921 “(a) A certificate of documentation may be endorsed with a registry endorsement.”; (B) in subsection (b), by inserting “endorsement” after “registry”; (C) by repealing subsections (c) and (d); and (D) in the catchline, by inserting “endorsements” after “Registry”. (6) Section 12106 is amended— (A) in subsection (a), by striking “A coastwise license or, as provided in section 12105(c) of this title, an appropriated endorsed registry, may be issued” and inserting “A certificate of documentation may be endorsed with a coastwise endorsement”; (B) in subsection (b), by striking “coastwise license or an appropriately endorsed registry” and inserting “certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement”; (C) in subsection (c), by striking “license” and inserting “endorsement”; (D) by repealing subsection (d); and (E) in the catchline, by striking “licenses and registry” and inserting “endorsements”. (7) Section 12107 is amended— (A) in subsection (a), by striking “A Great Lakes license, or as provided in section 12105(c) of this title, an appropriately endorsed registry, may be issued” and inserting “A certificate of documentation may be endorsed with a Great Lakes endorsement”; (B) by amending subsection (b) to read as follows: “(b) Subject to the laws of the United States regulating trade with Canada, only a vessel for which a certificate of documentation with a Great Lakes endorsement is issued may be employed on the Great Lakes and their tributary and connecting waters in trade with Canada.”; (C) by repealing subsection (c); and (D) in the catchline, by striking “licenses and registry” and inserting “endorsements”. (8) Section 12108 is amended— (A) in subsection (a), by striking “A fishery license or, as provided in section 12105(c) of this title, an appropriately endorsed registry, may be issued” and inserting “A certificate of documentation may be endorsed with a fishery endorsement”; (B) in subsection (a)(1), by striking “and”; (C) in subsection (b), by striking “fishery license or an appropriately endorsed registry” and inserting “certificate of documentation with a fishery endorsement”; (D) in subsection (C), by striking “license” and inserting “endorsement”; (E) by repealing subsection (d); and (F) in the catchline, by striking “licenses and registry” and inserting “endorsements”. (9) Section 12109 is amended— (A) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following: “(a) A certificate of documentation with a recreational endorsement may be issued for a vessel that is eligible for documentation ”; (B) in subsection (b)— 103 STAT. 1922 (i) by striking “licensed recreational vessel” and inserting “documented vessel with a recreational endorsement”; and (ii) by striking “Such” and inserting “A recreational”; (C) by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(c) A documented vessel operating under a recreational endorsement may be operated only for pleasure.”; and (D) in the catchline, by striking “vessel licenses” and inserting “endorsements”. (10) Section 12110 is amended— (A) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows: “(a) A vessel may not be employed in a trade except a trade covered by the endorsement issued for that vessel.”; and (B) in subsection (c)— (i) by striking “certificate of documentation” and inserting “endorsement”, (ii) by striking “recreational vessel” and inserting “vessel with a recreational endorsement”, and (iii) by striking “except” and inserting “other than”. (11) Section 12112 is amended— (A) in subsection (a), by striking “an appropriate document” and inserting “a certificate of documentation with an appropriate endorsement”; and (B) in subsection (b), by striking “an appropriate” and inserting “a”. (12) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 121 is amended by striking the entries for sections 12105 through 12109 and inserting the following: “12105. Registry endorsements. “12106. Coastwise endorsements. “12107. Great Lakes endorsements. “12108. Fishery endorsements. “12109. Recreational endorsements.”. (b) Documentation Surrender and Invalidation.—Section 12111(c)(3) of title 46, United States Code, does not apply to a mortgage that— (1) was filed or recorded before January 1, 1989; and (2) was not a preferred mortgage (as that term is defined in section 31301(6) of that title) on that date.