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[CITE: 33USC2734]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                        CHAPTER 40--OIL POLLUTION
 
             SUBCHAPTER II--PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 2734. Vessel traffic service system

    The Secretary of Transportation shall within one year after August 
18, 1990--
        (1) acquire, install, and operate such additional equipment 
    (which may consist of radar, closed circuit television, satellite 
    tracking systems, or other shipboard dependent surveillance), train 
    and locate such personnel, and issue such final regulations as are 
    necessary to increase the range of the existing VTS system in the 
    Port of Valdez, Alaska, sufficiently to track the locations and 
    movements of tank vessels carrying oil from the Trans-Alaska 
    Pipeline when such vessels are transiting Prince William Sound, 
    Alaska, and to sound an audible alarm when such tankers depart from 
    designated navigation routes; and
        (2) submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
    Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Merchant Marine 
    and Fisheries of the House of Representatives a report on the 
    feasibility and desirability of instituting positive control of tank 
    vessel movements in Prince William Sound by Coast Guard personnel 
    using the Port of Valdez, Alaska, VTS system, as modified pursuant 
    to paragraph (1).

(Pub. L. 101-380, title V, Sec. 5004, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 553.)

      Abolition of House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries

    Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of House of 
Representatives abolished and its jurisdiction transferred by House 
Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Jan. 4, 1995. For 
treatment of references to Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 
see section 1(b)(3) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding 
section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2736 of this title.
