Water Carrier Bulk Commodity Exemption: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session on a Proposed Temporary Technical Amendment to the Water Carrier Bulk Commodity Exemption Clause of the Interstate Commerce Act. June 9 and August 7, 1961Discusses legislation to amend temporarily the Interstate Commerce Act to authorize inland water way shippers to carry both general regulated and bulk exempt commodities without having bulk commodities lose their tax exemption. |
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Page 86 - Nothing in this part shall apply to the transportation by a water carrier of commodities in bulk when the cargo space of the vessel in which such commodities are transported is being used for the carrying of not more than three such commodities.
Page 15 - This subsection shall apply only in the case of commodities in bulk which are (in accordance with the existing custom of the trade in the handling and transportation of such commodities as of June 1, 1939) loaded and carried without wrappers or containers and received and delivered by the carrier without transportation mark or count. For the purposes of this subsection two or more vessels while navigated as a unit shall be considered to be a single vessel. This subsection shall not apply to transportation...
Page 36 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each; to promote safe, adequate, economical, and efficient service and foster sound economic conditions in transportation...
Page 13 - National Transportation Policy," preliminary draft of a report prepared for the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, US Senate, by the Special Study Group on Transportation Policies in the United States (pursuant to S.
Page 85 - Mr. WHEELER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to insert in the Record a statement giving some explanations of certain provisions which were changed. I desire to have these explanations in the Record because I feel they would be helpful to the Interstate Commerce Commission in interpreting the various provisions of the act.
Page 36 - The maritime workers on the inland river bargelines have an obvious personal stake in the success of the companies for which they work.
Page 4 - Section 303 (b) of the interstate commerce act is amended to read as follows: "'(b) Nothing in this part shall apply to the transportation by a water carrier of commodities in bulk which are loaded and carried without wrappers or containers and received and delivered by the carrier without transportation mark or count. This subsection shall not apply to transportation subject, at the time this part takes effect, to the provisions of the intercoastal shipping act, 1933, as amended.
Page 55 - In the hearings held by the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee in 1956 on transportation policy, detailed testimony was presented by Dr. John H. Frederick ( professor of transportation at the University of Maryland) on the subject of comparative rates of regulated and nonregulated carriage of bulk commodities on the inland waterways.
Page 57 - Very shortly after the effective date of the Transportation Act of 1940, the Commission was presented with the general question whether bulk commodities included in the same tow with nonbulk commodities thereby lost their exemption under section 303 (b). In Mulqueen Contract Carrier Application, 250 ICC 436, decided in 1942, the Commission disposed of this question tersely and finally as follows : The transportation of bulk commodities is not exempt when such commodities are handled in the same unit...
Page 4 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, we appreciate this opportunity to appear before you today...