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commerce would be under a sin- gle Cabinet department—the plan envisioned when the Department of Transportation was established in 1967.

The Maritime Administration was created in 1950 to promote and sustain the U.S. ocean ship- ping industry. It assists the mar- itime industry in ship design and construction, in research and de- velopment and in market devel- opment.

President Reagan has called the maritime industry a "key contributor to our economic strength and security. Its con- tinued growth and prosperity," he said, "are necessary to the economic renewal we all seek."

When the proposed transfer oc- curs, MarAd will be the eighth operational agency in the Depart- ment of Transportation, which al- ready houses two other marine organizations—the United States

Coast Guard and the St. Law- rence Seaway Development Cor- poration.

Work On Two Tankers At

Northwest Marine Will

Total Over $7.8 Million

The Maritime Subsidy Board has determined the fair and rea- sonable price and construction- differential subsidy (CDS) rates for the reconstruction of two 89,700-deadweight-ton tankers, the Chestnut Hill and Kittan- ning, operated by Chestnut Ship- ping Co.

Northwest Marine Iron Works,

Portland, Ore., will rebuild the ships at a cost of $3,930,976 per vessel. This price includes $308,- 605 worth of national defense features for each tanker.

The subsidy rate was set at 43.66 percent, or $1,716,576 per vessel. This figure was based on an estimated foreign cost of $2,214,400. A regional concept which combined Japan and Sing- apore as the representative ship- building center for the recon- struction work was used in esti- mating the foreign cost.

The work will include installa- tion of inert gas and crude oil washing systems and the replace- ment of the vessels' cargo strip- ping pumps required by the 1978

Port and Tanker Safety Act.

The Chestnut Hill and Kittan- ning were built by National Steel & Shipbuilding Co., San Diego,

Calif., in 1976 and 1977, respec- tively. $2.3 Million Awarded

To SeaTec For Mooring

And Pipeline Project

SeaTec International, Ltd.,

Gloucester, Mass., has been awarded a $2.3-million turnkey project to install two 2,800 me- ter, 8-inch and 16-inch-diameter pipelines and a SOFEC four-buoy

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CBM tanker mooring system at

Probolinggo, Java, Indonesia.

The award came from Coutinho,

Caro and Company, of Hamburg,

West Germany, who are con- structing a paper mill and sugar refinery for the P.T. Letjes Con- sortium. The mooring system will permit the transfer of fuel oil offshore and the pipeline will con- duct oil to storage facilities lo- cated outside the mill.

SeaTec will perform the entire project on a turnkey basis, in- corporating site survey, engineer- ing, project management and in- stallation of the pipeline and mooring terminal. The project is in progress and scheduled for completion by March of 1982.

SeaTec International, Ltd. is a marine construction corporation with offices around the world. $23.4-Million Overhaul

Contract To Todd Pacific

Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle,

Wash., has been awarded a $23,- 453,000 cost-plus-award-fee con- tract for repair and alterations regular overhaul of the destroyer

USS Elliot (DD-967). The Naval

Sea Systems Command is the con- tracting activity. (N00024-81-C- 8500)

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