S.Amdt. 4482

SA 4482. Mr. NELSON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title XXXV add the following:

SEC. ___. APPLICATION OF LAW.

Section 4301 of title 46, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the following:
``(d) For purposes of any Federal law, except the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), any
vessel, including a foreign vessel, being repaired or
dismantled is deemed to be a recreational vessel, as defined
under section 2101(25) of this title, during such repair or
dismantling, if that vessel--
``(1) shares elements of design and construction of
traditional recreational vessels; and
``(2) when operating is not normally engaged in a military,
commercial, or traditionally commercial undertaking.''.
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