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Signing of H.R. 1073, H.R. 13964, H.R. 13218, and H.R. 1607 [Bill]
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Signing of H.R. 1073, H.R. 13964, H.R. 13218, and H.R. 1607 [Bill]
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Digitized from Box 33 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Oct er 18, 1976
Office of the White House Press Secretary
NOTICE TO THE PRESS
The President has signed H.R. 1073 - Marine War Risk Insurance Extension.
This bill will amend Title XII of the Merchant Marine Act to extend the Marine War
Risk Insurance Program until September 30, 1979. The program expired on Septem-
ber 7, 1975.
Title XII authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, with the approval of the President,
to provide war risk and certain marine and liability insurance for the protection
of vessels, cargoes, and crew life and personal effects when commercial war risk
insurance is not available on reasonable terms and conditions.
Under the bill, in determining whether to issue insurance to a foreign flag vessel
in the future, Commerce will be required to consider the characteristics of the
vessel (such as its size, age, efficiency, and safety), its employment, and its general
management.
H.R. 1073 will also require that all U.S. and foreign flag vessels covered by this
program be subject to such vessel location reporting requirements as established
by Commerce. Currently, all U.S. flag merchant vessels are required to file
periodic location reports with Coast Guard stations. The bill will extend this re-
quirement to foreign flag vessels covered by U.S. war risk insurance, a provision
which both Commerce and DOD strongly support.
Finally, the bill will clarify that the insurance program covers containers, whether
loaded or unloaded, as part of a vessel's cargo, and that Commerce may charge
an annual fee to cover administrative expenses of the program.
The President has signed H.R. 13964 - Relief of Jeanette Green and Mary Jane
Baker Nolan, which waives the statute of limitations to permit litigation against
the United States by two widows.
H.R. 13964 will waive the two-year statute of limitations contained in the Suits of
Admiralty Act, as well as any other statute of limitations which would act to bar the
beneficiaries from bringing suits against the Unites States. The bill will also decla re
that its enactment shall not be construed as an inference of liability on the part of the
United States.
The President has signed H.R. 13218 - Sale of the SS "United States" for use as a
floating hotel. The ship is the largest and fastest passenger liner ever built in the
United States.
The President has signed H.R. 1607 - Newspaper advertisements of State-
operated lotteries.
H.R. 1607 remedies the lack of uniformity between the restrictions on adver-
tising lotteries through radio or television broadcasts and those dealing with
newspapers. In this regard, the bill:
permits State conducted lotteries to advertise in newspapers published
in adjacent States which operate lotteries; and
permits the mailing of general circulation newspapers containing lottery
advertisements or information.
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