PUBLIC LAW 102-587—NOV. 4, 1992 106 STAT. 5085 pany or to an entity in which it has an ownership interest, as is necessary (a) to fulfill dredging obligations under a specific contract, including any extension periods; or (b) as temporary replacement capacity for a vessel which has become disabled but onl^ for so long as the disability shall last and until the vessel IS in a position to fully resume dredging operations; however, this exception expires on December 8, 2022 or when the vessel STUYVESANT ceases to be documented under chapter 121, whichever first occurs; (B) the vessel COLUMBUS, official number 590658, except that the vessel's certificate of documentation shall be endorsed to prohibit the vessel from engaging in the transportation of merchandise (except valueless material), including dredge material of value, between places within the navigable waters of the United States; (C) a vessel that is engaged in dredged material excavation if that excavation is not more than a minority of the total cost of the construction contract in which the excavation is a single, integral part, and the vessel is— (i) built in the United States; (ii) a non-self-propelled mechanical clamshell dredging vessel; and (iii) owned or chartered by a corporation that had on file with the Secretary of Transportation, on August 1, 1989, the certificate specified in section 27A of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 App. U.S.C. 883-1); or (D) any other documented vessel engaged in dredging and time chartered to an entity that, on August 1, 1989, was, and has continuously remained, the parent of a corporation that had on file with the Secretary of Transportation on August 1, 1989, a certificate specified in section 27A of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 App. U.S.C. 883-1) if the vessel is— (i) not engaged in a federally funded navigation dredging project; and (ii) engaged only in dredging associated with, and integral to, accomplishment of that parent's regular business requirements. (b) Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 App. U.S.C. 883) is amended by striking "merchandise" the first place it appears and inserting "merchandise, including merchandise owned by the United States Oovernment, a State (as defined in section 2101 of the title 46, United States Code), or a subdivision of a State,". (c) The Act of June 7, 1988 (Public Law 100-329; 102 Stat. 46 USC app. 883 588), including the amendments made by that Act, does not apply "°^^- to a vessel— (1) engaged in the transportation of valueless material or valueless dredged material; and (2) owned or chartered by a corporation that had on file with the Secretary of Transportation on August 1, 1989, the certificate specified in section 27A of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 App. U.S.C. 883-1). SEC. 5502. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN SEIZED FISHING VESSELS UNDER FISHERMEN'S PROTECTIVE ACT OF 1967. (a) Notwithstanding another law, each of the vessels described in subsection (b) of this section is deemed to have been covered
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