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[88 STAT. 1180]
PUBLIC LAW 93-000—MMMM. DD, 1975
[88 STAT. 1180]

1180 Watercraft, restrictions.

Fishing rights.

Map and d e scription, filing with congressional committees.

Administration.

16 USC 1131 note.

PUBLIC LAW 93-430-OCT. 1, 1974

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SEC. 2. Within the wilderness designated by this Act, snbject to such restrictions as the Secretary of the Interior deems necessary for public safety and to protect flora and fauna of the wilderness, (1) the use of powered watercraft, propelled by motors of ten or less horsepower, will be permitted, (2) watercraft trails including approximately one hundred twenty miles as delineated on such map will be maintained. Access to watercraft trails in the wilderness area will be provided from the Suwannee River Sill, Steven Foster State Park, Kings Landing, and Suwannee Recreation Area (Camp Cornelia). SEC. 8. Fishing shall be permitted in the waters of the Okefenokee Wilderness, in accordance with applicable State and Federal regulations, except that the Secretary of the Interior may designate zones and establish periods when no fishing shall be permitted for reasons of public safety, administration, fish and wildlife management, or public use and enjoyment. SEC. 4. As soon as practicable after the Act takes effect, a map and a legal description of the wilderness area shall be filed with the Interior and Insular Affairs Committees of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, and such description and map shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act: Provided., however., That correction of clerical and typographical errors in such description and map may be made. SEC. 5. The area designated by this Act as wilderness shall be known as the Okefenokee Wilderness and shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act. Approved October 1, 1974. Public Law 93-430

October 1, 1974 [H.R. 13595]

U.S. Coast Guard. Appropriation authorization; personnel strength. Fishing vess e l s, exemption from certain laws.

AN ACT To authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for the procurement of vessels and aircraft and construction of shore and offshore establishments, to authorize appropriations for bridge alterations, to authorize for the Coast Guard an end-year strength for active duty personnel, to authorize for the Coast Guard average military student loads, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the /Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled., That funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1975 for the use of the Coast Guard as follows: VESSELS

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For procurement, innovation, and increasing the capability of vessels, $22,676,000. A. Procurement: (1) One one-hundred-and-sixty-foot inland construction tender; (2) small boat replacement program; and {?)) design of vessels. I^. Renovation and increasing capability: (1) renovate and improve buoy tenders; (2) re-engine and renovate coastal buoy tenders; {?>) modernize and improve cutter, buoy tender, and icebreaker communications equipment; (4) abate pollution by oily waste from Coast Guard vessels; and (5) abate pollution by nonoily waste from Coast Guard vessels.