Volume 85 · 146
Public Law 92–53
To authorize appropriations for certain maritime programs of the Department of Commerce, and for other purposes.
Approved July 9, 1971
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize appropriations for certain maritime programs of the Department of Commerce, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That funds are
Commerce Department maritime programs.
Appropriation authorization.
hereby authorized to be appropriated without fiscal year limitation as the appropriation Act may provide for the use of the Department of Commerce, for the fiscal year 1972, as follows:
acquisition, construction, or reconstruction of vessels and construction-differential subsidy and cost of national defense features incident to the construction, reconstruction, or reconditioning of ships, $229,687,000;
payment of obligations incurred for operating-differential subsidy, $239,145,000;
expenses necessary for research and development activities (including reimbursement of the Vessel Operations Revolving Fund for losses resulting from expenses of experimental ship operations), $25,000,000;
reserve fleet expenses, $4,318,000;
maritime training at the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, $7,300,000; and
financial assistance to State marine schools, $2,370,000.
Sec. 2.
Section 3 of the Maritime Academy Act of 1958 (46 U.S.C. 1382) is amended by inserting a new subsection (c) to read as follows:
“(c) In any case where the Secretary has not, prior to the enactment of this subsection, furnished a suitable vessel to a State as authorized by subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary may, in lieu of furnishing such a vessel, repair, recondition and equip (including all apparel, charts, books, and instruments of navigation) as necessary, a vessel which is owned by a State on the date of enactment of this subsection, for use as a training vessel for a maritime academy or college meeting the requirements of this Act.”
Approved July 9, 1971.