A bill 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.
PL 93-430 (H.R.13595), enacted 10/01/1974

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PUBLIC L
A
W 93-430-OCT. 1, 1974 
[88 STAT. 
Watercraft, re-
strictions. 
Fishing rights. 
Map and de-
scription, filing 
with congres-
sional commit-
tees. 
Administration. 
16 u s e 1131 
note. 
SEC. 2. Within tlie 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 horse-
power, will be permitted, (2) watercraft trails including approxi-
mately 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 regu-
lations, 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., hoioever., 
That correction of clerical and typographical errors in such descrip-
tion 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 Secre-
tary of the Interior in accordance with the provisions of the Wilder-
ness Act. 
Approved October 1, 1974. 
October 1,1974 
[H.R. 13595] 
Public Law 93-430 
AN ACT 
To authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for the procurement of vessels 
and aircraft and construction of shore and offshore establishments, to author-
ize 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 i)urposes. 
U.S. Coast 
Guard. 
Appropriation 
authorization; 
personnel 
strength. 
Fishing ves-
sels, exemption 
from certain laws. 
Be it enacted hy the /Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled., That funds are 
hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1975 for the use 
of the Coast Guard as follows: 
VESSELS 
i -:!,. 
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 impi'ove 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. 
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AIRCRAFT 
For procurement of ^ight replacement fixed-wing medium-range 
search aircraft, $17,793,000. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For the establishment or development of installations and facilities 
by acquisition, construction, conversion, extension, or installation of 
permanent or temporary public works, including the preparation of 
sites and furnishing of appurtenances, utilities, and equipment for the 
following, $74,731,000: 
(1) St. Petersburg, Florida: Establish a new consolidated avia-
tion facility. 
(2) Areata, California: Construct air station, phase II. 
(3) Sitka, Alaska: Construct new air station. 
(4) Woods Hole, Massachusetts: Construct small boat main-
tenance facility at Coast Guard base. 
(5) New London, Connecticut: Renovate and expand cadet 
galley and dining facilities at Coast Guard Academy. 
(6) Curtis Bay, Maryland: Renew steam system at Coast 
Guard yard, phase II. 
(7) Yorktown, Virginia: Construct classroom building at 
Reserve training center. 
(8) Portsmouth, Virginia: Construct new Coast Guard base, 
phase III. 
(9) Virginia Beach, Virginia: Replace Little Creek Station 
waterfront facilities. 
(10) Rodanthe, 
North 
Carolina: 
Improve 
Oregon 
Inlet 
Station. 
(11) Port Canaveral, Florida: Replace Port Canaveral Station 
(leased property). 
(12) Miami, Florida: Renovate Miami Air Station. 
(13) Port Aransas, Texas: Rebuild Port Aransas Station. 
(14) Traverse City, ]Michigan: Rebuild air station. 
(15) Keokuk, Iowa: Construct depot building. 
(16) Seattle, Washington: Relocate Coast Guard units to piers 
36/37, phase I (leased property). 
(17) Alaska, various locations: Establish VHF-FM distress 
communications system. 
(18) Kodiak, Alaska: Renovate and consolidate Coast Guard 
base, phase II. 
(19) Valdez, Alaska: Establish vessel traffic system and port 
safety station. 
(20) Various locations: Improve radio navigation system of 
Pacific coastal region. 
(21) New York, New York: Complete vessel traffic system, 
phase I (part I I ) . 
(22) Various locations : Waterways aids to navigation projects. 
(23) Various locations: Lighthouse automation and moderni-
zation program (LAMP). 
(24) Various locations: Mediterranean loran C equipment 
replacement. 
(25) Various locations: Public family quarters. 
(26) Various locations: Advance planning, survey, design, and 
architectural services; project administration costs; acquire sites 
in connection with projects not otherwise authorized by law. 
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[88 STAT. 
Active duty 
personnel 
strength. 
14 u s e 764. 
Bridge owners, 
payments. 
Dependent chil-
dren outside U.S., 
schooling and 
transportation. 
Vessels used in 
coastwise trade, 
leadlines. 
Internal com-
bustion engines, 
exemptions. 
SEC. 2. For fiscal year 1975, the Coast Guard is authorized an end 
strength for active duty personnel of thirty-seven thousand seven 
hundred and forty-eight; except that the ceiling shall not include 
members of the Ready Reserve called to active duty under the pro-
visions of Public Law 92-479. 
SEC. 3. For fiscal year 1975, military training student loads for the 
Coast Guard are authorized as follows: 
(1) recruit and special training, four thousand and eighty 
man-years; 
(2) flight training, eighty-five man-years; 
(3) professional training in military and civilian institutions, 
three hundred and seventy-five man-years; and 
(4) officer acquisition training, one thousand one hundred and 
sixty man-years. 
SEC. 4. For use of the Coast Guard for payment to bridge owners 
for the cost of alterations of railroad bridges and public highway 
bridges to permit free navigation of navigable waters of the United 
States, $6,800,000 is hereby authorized. 
SEC. 5. Section 657 of title 14, United States Code, is amended— 
(a) by deleting from the catchline the semicolon and the words 
following "children"; 
(b) by designating the existing section as subsection (b) ; and 
(c) by inserting a new subsection (a) as follows: 
"(a) Except as otherw^ise authorized by the Act of September 30, 
1950 (20 U.S.C. 236-244), the Secretary may provide, out of funds 
appropriated to or for the use of the Coast Guard, for the primary 
and secondary schooling of dependents of Coast Guard personnel sta-
tioned outside the continental United States at costs for any given 
area not in excess of those of the Department of Defense for the same 
area, when it is determined by the Secretary that the schools, if any, 
available in the locality are unable to provide adequately for the edu-
cation of those dependents.". 
SEC. 6. (1) Section 1(b) of the Act of August 27, 1935 (46 U.S.C. 
88), as amended, is further amended by inserting the words "and all 
vessels of not more than five thousand gross tons used in the processing 
or assembling of fishery products in the fisheries of the States of 
Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, except those constructed after 
August 15, 1974, or those converted to any of such services after 
July 11, 1978," after the words "from July 11, 1968," but before the 
words "are exempt", 
(2) The first proviso of section 1 of the Act of June 20, 1936 (46 
U.S.C. 367), as amended, is further amended by deleting the last two 
sentences and inserting in lieu thereof: "As used herein, the phrase 'any 
vessel' engaged in fishing, oystering, clamming, crabbing, or any other 
branch of the fishery or kelp or sponge industries includes cannery 
tender or fishing tender vessels of not more than five hundred gross tons 
used in the salmon or crab fisheries of the States of Oregon, Washing-
ton, and Alaska which are engaged exclusively in (1) the carriage of 
cargo to or from vessels in the fishery or a facility used or to be used in 
the processing or assembling of fishery products, or (2) the transporta-
tion of cannery or fishing personnel to or from operating locations, and 
vessels of not more than five thousand gross tons used in the processing 
or assembling of fishery products in the fisheries of the States of 
82 Stat. 341. 
46 u s e 391a. 
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Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. The exemptions in the preceding 
sentence for cannery tender, and fishing tender vessels and vessels 
used in processing or assembling fishery products shall continue in 
force until July 11,19T8.". 
(3) The proviso clauses of paragraph (2) of section 4417a of the 
"^"""f^^J^^^^ 
Revised Statutes (46 U.S.C. 391a(2)), as amended, are further''^'^^°'" 
amended to read as follows: 
^^Provided^ That (i) this section shall not apply to vessels hav-
ing on board the substances set forth in (A), (B),or (C) above 
only for use as fuel or stores or to vessels carrying such cargo only 
in drums, barrels, or other packages; 
"(ii) nothing contained herein shall be deemed to amend or 
modify the provisions of section 4 of Public Law 93-397 with 
respect to certain vessels of not more than five hundred gross tons; 
"(iii) this section shall not apply to vessels of not more than 
five thousand gross tons used in the processing and assembling of 
fishery products in the fisheries of the States of Oregon, Wash-
ington, and Alaska and such vessels shall be allowed to have on 
board inflammable or combustible cargo in bulk to the extent and 
upon conditions as may be required by the Secretary of the depart-
ment in which the Coast Guard is operating; and 
"(iv) this section shall not apply to vessels of not more than 
five hundred gross tons documented in the service of oil exploita-
tion which are not tank vessels and which would be subject to 
this section only because of the transfer of fuel from the vessels' 
own fuel supply tanks to offshore drilling or production 
facilities.". 
(4) Section 4426 of the Eevised Statutes of the United States (46 ^.J^^'^j^" commer-
U.S.C. 404), as amended, is further amended by deleting the last two sels/exempt'ions. 
sentences and inserting in lieu thereof: "As herein, the phrase 'engaged 
in fishing as a regular business' includes cannery tender or fishing 
tender vessels of not more than five hundred gross tons used in the 
salmon or crab fisheries of the States of Oregon, Washington, and 
Alaska which are engaged exclusively in (1) the carriage of cargo to 
or from vessels in the fishery or a facility used or to be used in the 
processing or assembling of fishery products, or (2) the transporta-
tion of cannery or fishing persoimel to or from operating locations, 
and vessels of not more than five thousand gross tons used in the 
processing or assembling of fishery products in the fisheries of the 
States of Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, The exemptions in the 
preceding sentence for cannery tender, fishing tender vessels and ves-
sels used in processing or assembling of fishery products shall con-
tinue in force until July 11,1978.". 
SEC. 7. The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard 
f ^"f 
y 
is operating (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary"), in coopera-
tion with the Secretaries of Commerce, State, Defense, and the 
Treasury, and the Attorney General, shall conduct a comprehensive 
study of all feasible methods of enforcing fishery management juris-
diction, including any possible extension of such jurisdiction. In carry-
ing out such study, the Secretary shall evaluate all available techniques 
of enforcement including, but not limited to, the use of satellites, 
remote sensing, vessels, aircraft, radar, or devices implanted on the 
seafloor. 
Approved October 1, 1974. 
16 u s e 1091 
note.