§2734 — Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code

Summary

Within one year after August 18, 1990, the Secretary of Transportation must upgrade and run the Port of Valdez vessel traffic system by adding tracking equipment, training and placing staff, and issuing final rules so it can track tankers carrying oil from the Trans‑Alaska Pipeline through Prince William Sound and sound an alarm if they leave designated routes. The Secretary must report to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on whether Coast Guard personnel should use the upgraded system to exercise positive control of those tanker movements.

Title 33, §2734

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The Secretary of Transportation shall within one year after August 18, 1990—

(1)acquire, install, and operate such additional equipment (which may consist of radar, closed circuit television, satellite tracking systems, or other shipboard dependent surveillance), train and locate such personnel, and issue such final regulations as are necessary to increase the range of the existing VTS system in the Port of Valdez, Alaska, sufficiently to track the locations and movements of tank vessels carrying oil from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline when such vessels are transiting Prince William Sound, Alaska, and to sound an audible alarm when such tankers depart from designated navigation routes; and

(2)submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report on the feasibility and desirability of instituting positive control of tank vessel movements in Prince William Sound by Coast Guard personnel using the Port of Valdez, Alaska, VTS system, as modified pursuant to paragraph (1).

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2002—Par. (2). Pub. L. 107–295 substituted “Transportation and Infrastructure” for “Merchant Marine and Fisheries”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see section 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.

§2734 Vessel Traffic Service System