Sec. 303. PORT PRIVILEGES DENIAL FOR FISHING IN CENTRAL BERING SEA
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## SEC. 303 PORT PRIVILEGES DENIAL FOR FISHING IN CENTRAL BERING SEA **[**[16 U.S.C. 1823 note](/us/usc/t16/s1823)**]** ###
(a)Denial of Port Privileges The Secretary of the Treasury shall, after December 31, 1992, in accordance with recognized principles of international law— ####
(1)withhold or revoke the clearance required by section 4197 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (46 App. U.S.C. 91) for any fishing vessel documented under the laws of a nation that is included on a list published under subsection (b); and ####
(2)deny entry of such fishing vessel to any place in the United States and to the navigable waters of the United States. ###
(b)Publication of List Not later than forty-five days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, shall publish in the Federal Register a list of nations whose nationals or vessels conduct fishing operations in the Central Bering Sea, except where such fishing operations are in accordance with an international fishery agreement to which the United States and the Russian Federation are parties. The Secretary shall publish as an addendum to the list the name of each vessel documented under the laws of each listed nation which conducts fishing operations in the Central Bering Sea. A revised list shall be published whenever the list is no longer accurate, except that a nation may not be removed from the list unless— ####
(1)the nationals and vessels of that nation have not conducted fishing operations in the Central Bering Sea for the previous ninety days and the nation has committed, through a bilateral agreement with the United States or in any other manner acceptable to the Secretary of Commerce, not to permit its nationals or vessels to resume such fishing operations; or ####
(2)the nationals and vessels of that nation are conducting fishing operations in the Central Bering Sea that are in accordance with an international fishery agreement to which the United States and the Russian Federation are parties. ###
(c)Notification of Nation Before the publication of a list of nations under subsection (b), the Secretary of State shall notify each nation included on that list and explain the requirement to deny the port privileges of fishing vessels of that nation under subsection
(a)as a result of such publication.
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PORT PRIVILEGES DENIAL FOR FISHING IN CENTRAL BERING SEA
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