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[CITE: 33USC883h]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                    CHAPTER 17--NATIONAL OCEAN SURVEY
 
                         SUBCHAPTER II--SURVEYS
 
Sec. 883h. Employment of public vessels

    The President is authorized to cause to be employed such of the 
public vessels as he deems it expedient to employ, and to give such 
instructions for regulating their conduct as he deems proper in order to 
carry out the provisions of this subchapter.

(Aug. 6, 1947, ch. 504, Sec. 8, 61 Stat. 788.)

                         Delegation of Functions

    Functions of President under this section delegated to Secretary of 
Commerce, see section 1(l) of Ex. Ord. No. 11023, May 28, 1962, 27 F.R. 
5131, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.
