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[CITE: 47USC751]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
               CHAPTER 6--COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE SYSTEM
 
    SUBCHAPTER V--INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATIONS
 
Sec. 751. Congressional declaration of policy and purpose


(a) Development and operation of global system to serve needs of United 
        States and foreign countries

    The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United 
States to provide for the participation of the United States in the 
International Maritime Satellite Organization (hereinafter in this 
subchapter referred to as ``INMARSAT'') in order to develop and operate 
a global maritime satellite telecommunications system. Such system shall 
have facilities and services which will serve maritime commercial and 
safety needs of the United States and foreign countries.

(b) Corporate participation; private entity status; non-Government 
        agency

    It is the purpose of this subchapter to provide that the 
participation of the United States in INMARSAT shall be through the 
communications satellite corporation established pursuant to subchapter 
III of this chapter, which constitutes a private entity operating for 
profit, and which is not an agency or establishment of the Federal 
Government.

(Pub. L. 87-624, title V, Sec. 502, as added Pub. L. 95-564, Nov. 1, 
1978, 92 Stat. 2392; amended Pub. L. 103-414, title III, Sec. 303(b)(4), 
Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4296.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-414 substituted ``the communications 
satellite corporation established pursuant to subchapter III of this 
chapter'' for ``the Communications Satellite Corporation''.


                               Short Title

    Pub. L. 87-624, title V, Sec. 501, as added by Pub. L. 95-564, Nov. 
1, 1978, 92 Stat. 2392, provided that: ``This title [enacting this 
subchapter] may be cited as the `International Maritime Satellite 
Telecommunications Act'.''
