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[CITE: 14USC665]

 
                          TITLE 14--COAST GUARD
 
                       PART I--REGULAR COAST GUARD
 
                       CHAPTER 17--ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 665. Restriction on construction of vessels in foreign 
        shipyards
        
    (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no Coast Guard vessel, and 
no major component of the hull or superstructure of a Coast Guard 
vessel, may be constructed in a foreign shipyard.
    (b) The President may authorize exceptions to the prohibition in 
subsection (a) when the President determines that it is in the national 
security interest of the United States to do so. The President shall 
transmit notice to Congress of any such determination, and no contract 
may be made pursuant to the exception authorized until the end of the 
30-day period beginning on the date the notice of such determination is 
received by Congress.

(Added Pub. L. 100-448, Sec. 26(a), Sept. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 1847.)
