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PUBLIC LAW 91-603-DEC. 31, 1970
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prescribe, to cooperate with and assist the United Seamen's Service in establishing and providing those facilities and services. " (b) Personnel of the United Seamen's Service who are performing duties in connection with the cooperation and assistance under subsection (a) may be furnished— "(1) transportation, at the expense of the United States, while traveling to and from, and while performing, those duties, in the same manner as civilian employees of the armed, forces;
- '(2) meals and quarters, at their expense or at the expense of
the United Seamen's Service, except that where civilian employees of the armed forces are quartered without charge, employees of the United Seamen's Service may also be quartered without charge; and "(3) available office space (including space for recreational activities for seamen), warehousing, wharfage, and means of communication, without charge. (c) No fee may be charged for a passport issued to an employee of ^^1^^^^°"^* ^^^' the United Seamen's Service for travel outside the United States to assume or perform duties under this section. " (d) Supplies of the United Seamen's Service, including gifts for the use of merchant seamen, may be transported at the expense of the United States, if it is determined under regulations prescribed under subsection (a) that they are necessary to the cooperation and assistance provided under this section. Currencies, "(e) Where practicable, the President shall also make arrangements convertibility. to provide for convertibility of local currencies for the United Seamen's Service, in connection with its activities under subsection (a). "(f) For the purposes of this section, employees of the United Seamen's Service may not be considered as employees of the United States."; and (2) by adding the following new item at the end of the analysis: "2604. United Seamen's Service: cooperation and assistance."
SEC. 4. The Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.), as amended, is amended as follows: (a) By striking out of section 501(a)(2) thereof (46 U.S.C. 1151 (a)(2)) the words "to enable it to operate and maintain" and inserting in lieu thereof "for the operation and maintenance of". (b) By striking out of section 502(a) thereof (46 U.S.C. 1152(a)) the words "to enable it to operate and maintain" and inserting in lieu thereof "for the operation and maintenance of". (c) By inserting in section 601(a)(2) thereof (46 U.S.C. 1171 (a)(2)) following the word "owns" the words "or leases". (d) By inserting in section 601(a)(2) thereof (46 U.S.C. 1171 (a)(2)) following the word "purchase" the words "or lease". (e) By striking the last sentence of section 805(d) thereof (46 U.S.C. 1223(d)).
Approved December 31, 1970.
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