On the recordApril 24, 2008
The manager's amendment authorizes the Coast Guard to delegate to classification societies the Coast Guard's authority for safety plan review and construction inspections of offshore oil structures. It allows this authority to be delegated to foreign classification societies to the extent that the government of the country in which the classification society is headquartered accepts documents prepared by our classification society, the American Bureau of Shipping, on behalf of the leaseholder, and does not limit the ABS to this process. I also want to thank several colleagues for agreeing to have their amendments incorporated into the manager's amendment to expedite consideration of the bill: The gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Tauscher); the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Loretta Sanchez); the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Kind); the gentlewoman from Guam (Ms. Bordallo); and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner).
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