§ 2734. — Vessel traffic service system.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC2734]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 40--OIL POLLUTION
SUBCHAPTER II--PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND PROVISIONS
Sec. 2734. Vessel traffic service system
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).
(Pub. L. 101-380, title V, Sec. 5004, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 553; Pub.
L. 107-295, title IV, Sec. 408(b)(2), Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2117.)
Amendments
2002--Par. (2). Pub. L. 107-295 substituted ``Transportation and
Infrastructure'' for ``Merchant Marine and Fisheries''.
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 sections 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.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 2736 of this title.
