coastwise and fisheries documentation

coastwise and fisheries documentationSec. 201. (a) Notwithstanding sections 12106 through 12108 of title 46, United States Code, and section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 102 STAT. 4753 1920 (46 App. U.S.C. 883), the Secretary of Transportation may issue a certificate of documentation for the following vessels: (1) ALEUTIAN TRAWLER, United States official number 236979; (2) ENCORE, United States official number 545162; (3) FAIR TIDE, United States official number 644363; (4) FREEDOM, United States official number 569163; (5) PAVLOF, United States official number 597532; (6) SUVA, United States official number 225008; (7) RA, United States official number 655181; (8) TE DE II, United States official number 572205; (9) FRE-N-EZE, United States official number 659826; (10) BETA LYRA, United States official number 679226; (11) POLAR ICE, United States official number 604676; (12) COMPASS ROSE III, United States official number 559647; (13) SCOTCH ’N WATER, United States official number 264090; (14) ERSA, United States official number 229511; (15) GILBERT, United States official number 230568, with a restriction that this vessel may engage in the coastwise trade of the United States only for the purpose of moving barges filled with seafood waste and wastewater to designated ocean disposal sites from Port Canaveral, Florida; (16) MARY L, United States official number 275311; (17) ZB–6, United States official number 505317; (18) KUT N OUT, hull identification number BERL1087M–80A–385–80 and Florida registration number FL7665FG; (19) FOXY LADY III, United States official number 299818; and (20) GIPSY, United States official number 903276. (b) Notwithstanding sections 508 and 510(g) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (46 App. U.S.C. 1158 and 1160(g)), and United States Department of Transportation Contract Numbered MA–6772 (IFB PD–X–945) and amendments thereto, the Secretary of Transportation is authorized to allow, and the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may issue a certificate of documentation for, the vessel M/V OCEAN TEMPEST (ex HORSESHOE SPLICE), United States official number 248773, to acquire, purchase, process, and transport fish and fish products in the fisheries of the United States: Provided, That if the vessel is scrapped, it shall not be scrapped other than in the domestic market without the prior approval of the Secretary of Transportation.