76-097 SUPPLEMENT TO A COMMITTEE PRINT OF A DRAFT BILL ENTITLED "THE MARINE SAFETY AND SEAMEN'S WELFARE ACT OF 1967" PREPARED FOR THE USE OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE UNITED STATES SENATE AT THE REQUEST OF HON. WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Chairman AUGUST 1967 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1967 FOREWORD The need to gather together, organize rationally, and reenact the scattered statutes affecting the U.S. merchant marine into a comprehensive code of maritime law has long been recognized. The Senate Committee on Commerce has been particularly concerned with this problem. Under Senate Resolution 76 of the 89th Congress, first session, which authorized funds for the activities and investigations of the Committee on Commerce, there were included funds for a compilation and reunion of the maritime statutes. Pursuant to this authorization, the committee entered into a contract with Pike & Fischer, Inc. of Washington, D.C., to prepare a revision of the statutes relating to the Federal Maritime Commission and the Maritime Administration. The Pike & Fischer revision is now incorporated in S. 620, the Merchant Marine Act of 1967. In addition to the Pike & Fischer endeavor, the Committee on Commerce requested the Treasury Department, through the Bureau of Customs and the Coast Guard, to revise those statutes relating to their respective maritime functions. The Bureau of Customs revision is now set forth in a committee print entitled, "Draft of Proposed Navigation Act of 1967." The Coast Guard's revision is now incorporated in a committee print of the proposed Marine Safety and Seamen's Welfare Act of 1967. This report is a supplement to that committee print, and sets forth the existing United States Code version of each of the laws covered by the revision. Under each code section will be found the reviewer's comments, and occasionally a discussion on the special problems encountered by the reviewers. As with Pike & Fischer and the Bureau of Customs, the Coast Guard was under explicit direction not to propose any amendments to the substantive law unless made necessary by recent organizational changes or similar requirements and to indicate and provide explanations of all proposed changes in wording. This latter directive is accomplished through the material presented in this supplement. These explanatory requirements were made to assist the maritime industry, maritime labor, and other groups of individuals interested in maritime affairs in promptly preparing helpful and constructive comments for the committee on the revision. Throughout this supplement reference to "Revision" will mean the committee print of the proposed Marine Safety and Seamen's Welfare Act of 1967. WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Chairman. III |