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S. 1124 (111th): A bill to amend title 46, United States Code, to modify the vessels eligible for a fishery endorsement, and for other purposes.
- Introduced:
- May 21, 2009 (111th Congress, 2009–2010)
- Sponsor:
- Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]
- Status:
- Died (Referred to Committee)
The bill’s title was written by the bill’s sponsor. S. stands for Senate bill.
Library of Congress Summary
The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.
5/21/2009--Introduced.
Revises provisions concerning fishery endorsements for specified vessels that are either over 165 feet, more than 750 or 1,900 gross measured tons, or with more than 3,000 shaft power and that have a certificate of documentation issued for a fishery endorsement effective after September 25, 1997, and not placed under foreign registry after October 21, 1998, to also require for eligibility purposes that the vessel be either a rebuilt or replacement vessel under specified provisions of the American Fisheries Act relating to requirements for rebuilding and replacing vessels that are being revised by this Act and be otherwise eligible.
Sets forth rules under such provisions of the American Fisheries Act relating to requirements for rebuilding and replacing vessels that are being revised by this Act concerning:
(1) recommendations of the North Pacific Council for the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area or the Gulf of Alaska;
(2) certain catcher vessels;
(3) limitations on fishery endorsements; and
(4) Gulf of Alaska groundfish fisheries limitations.
Amends the American Fisheries Act with respect to:
(1) the exemption of specified vessels; and
(2) fishery allowances and the removal of a catcher vessel from the directed pollock fishery.
House Republican Conference Summary
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The bill contains the following citations to other parts of U.S. law:
Slip Laws
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- Public Law 105-277
United States Code
The United States Code is the compilation of permanent laws enacted by Congress. Temporary and other non-permanent laws do not appear in the United States Code. (About half of the United States Code is the law itself, called positive law. The other half is merely a compilation of the laws but has no legal significance.)
- Title 46: SHIPPING
- Subtitle II: Vessels and Seamen
- Part H: Identification of Vessels
- Chapter 121: DOCUMENTATION OF VESSELS
- Subchapter II: ENDORSEMENTS AND SPECIAL DOCUMENTATION
- Section 12113: Fishery endorsement
Statutes at Large
The United States Statutes at Large is the compilation of all laws enacted by Congress.
- 112 Stat. 2681-620
- 112 Stat. 2681-627
- 112 Stat. 2681-629