Pub. L. 108-199, div. B, tit. II, sec. 214
Pub. L. 108-199, div. B, tit. II, sec. 214
Sec. 214. In addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act or any other Act, $500,000 shall be provided until expended for the Federal Credit Reform Act cost of a reduction loan under sections 1111 and 1112 of title XI of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. App. 1279f, 1279g), not to exceed $50,000,000 in principal, that—118 STAT. 76(1) notwithstanding 46 U.S.C. App. 1279f(b), shall have a term of not less than 30 years;(2) carries out a Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands non-pollock groundfish capacity reduction program which may include fewer than all management areas of the fishery;(3) permanently revokes all fishery licenses, fishery permits, area and species endorsements, and any other fishery privileges issued to a vessel or vessels (or to persons on the basis of their operation or ownership of that vessel or vessels) removed under the program; and(4) ensures that all vessels removed from the fishery under the program are made permanently ineligible to participate in any fishery worldwide, and that the owners of such vessels will operate only under the United States flag or such vessels shall be scrapped as a reduction vessel pursuant to section 600.1011(c) of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations.