A bill to amend title 14, United States Code, to provide for the nondiscriminatory appointment of cadets to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
PL 94-572 (H.R.10192), enacted 10/21/1976

90 STAT. 2708 
PUBLIC LAW 94-572—OCT. 21, 1976 
Public Law 94-572 
94th Congress 
Oct. 21. 1976 
[H.R. 10192] 
U.S. Coast Guard 
Academy cadets, 
nondiscriminatory 
appointment; 
certain coastwise 
vessels. 
Vessels, Barbara 
Ann, Bruja Mar, 
and Mary M. 
An Act 
To amend title 14, United States Code, to provide for the nondiscriminatory 
appointment of cadets to the United States Coast Guard Academy. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hoitse of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, Tliat subsection (a) 
of section 182 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
after the second sentence thereof two new sentences as follows: "All 
such appointments shall be made without regard to the sex, race, 
color, or religious beliefs of an applicant. In the administration of 
this chapter, the Secretary shall take such action as may be necessary 
and appropriate to insure that female individuals shall be eligible 
for appointment and admission to the Coast Guard Academy, and 
that the relevant standards required for appointment, admission, train-
ing, graduation, and commissioning of female individuals shall be 
the same as those required for male individuals, except for those 
minimum essential adjustments in such standards required because 
of physiological differences between male and female individuals.". 
SEC. 2. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4132 of the 
Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (46 U.S.C. 11), 
or any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Department in 
which the Coast Guard is operating (1) shall cause the vessels, 
Barbara Ann (vessel numbered 529835), presentlv jointly owned, 
with right of survivorship, by Keith E. and Barbara Malcolm of 
Marine City, Michigan, and Bruja Mar (vessel numbered 546133), 
presently owned by Greenwood Marine, Incorporated, a Louisiana 
corporation, to be documented as vessels of the United States with the 
privilege of engaging in the coastwise trade, and (2) shall cause the 
vessel, Mary M (vessel numbered 230483), presently owned by Charles 
Hammond, Junior, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, to be documented as 
a vessel of the United States with the privilege of engaging in the 
American fisheries, such documentation to be conditional upon com-
pliance with all the requirements for such documentation other than 
the requirement that the vessel be built in the United States. 
(b) The provisions of this section shall remain in effect for the 
Barbara Ann so long as the vessel continues in its present joint owner-
ship, or in the ownership of the survivor thereof, and for the Bruja 
Mar so long as the vessel continues in its present ownership. 
Approved October 21, 1976. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 94-1109 (Gomm. on Merchant Marine and Fisheries). 
SENATE REPORT No. 94-1186 (Comm. on Commerce). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 122 (1976): 
May 18, considered and passed House. 
Sept. 13, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Oct. 1, House agreed to Senate amendment with an amendment; Senate agreed to 
House amendment.