EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOR SUBSISTENCE WHALE HUNTERS.

SEC. 403. EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOR SUBSISTENCE WHALE HUNTERS. Notwithstanding any provision of law, the use of a vessel to tow a whale taken in a traditional subsistence whale hunt permitted by Federal law and conducted in waters off the coast of Alaska is authorized, if such towing is performed upon a request for emergency assistance made by a subsistence whale hunting organization formally recognized by an agency of the United States Government, 116 STAT. 3103or made by a member of such an organization, to prevent the loss of a whale.