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lion to $289 million. An additional $70 million is budgeted for RRF fleet acquisitions. Although the

RRF funds will now be budgeted in

DOD, DOT's Maritime Administra- tion will continue to manage the program. Continued funding at current levels for Title XI loan guar- antees for shipbuilding will help fi- nance modern ships and shipyards and keep current our shipbuilding capacity, the Secretary said.

DOT Selects Winners For

University Transportation

Center Grants

Secretary of Transportation

Federico Pena announced that the

Department of Transportation (DOT) has chosen the 10 institu- tions of higher learning that will receive grants totaling $30 million to establish and operate regional

University Transportation Centers (UTCs) in fiscal years 1995 through 1997.

The mission of the UTC program is to advance U.S. expertise and technology in the many fields com- prising transportation through in- vestment in education, research and technology transfer. Now in its sev- enth year, the program supports activities at the 10 regional centers and at three national centers which were added to the program in 1991.

The UTC program is adminis- tered by the department's Research and Special Programs Administra- tion (RSPA), whose administrator,

Dr. D.K. Sharma, selected the win- ning proposals after consultation with the administrators of the Fed- eral Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration, joint sponsors of the UTC program.

This is the first time that the

UTC grants have been open for com- petition since the current centers were selected in 1988. The depart- ment received proposals represent- ing more than 90 universities across the U.S. A technical evaluation team rated each proposal on the basis of its quality, leadership capa- bility, availability of resources, and ability to disseminate results.

These are the universities se- lected to receive UTC grants:

U.S. DOT

University Transportation Cantors

Fiscal Y< •ars 1995-1997

REGION ONE Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

REGION TWO City College of New York

New York, N.Y.

REGION THREE Pennsylvania State University

University Park, Pa.

REGION FOUR University of Tennessee

Knoxville.Tenn.

REGION FIVE University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Mich.

REGION SIX Texas A&M University

College Station, Texas

REGION SEVEN University Of Nebraska

Lincoln, Neb.

REGION EIGHT North Dakota State University

Fargo, N.D.

REGION NINE University of California

Berkeley, Calif.

REGION TEN University of Washington

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MurAd Grants Approval For Sea-land Service To Reflag Five Vessels

Sea-Land Service Inc. has re- ceived approval from the Maritime

Administration (MarAd) to reflag five U.S.-flag vessels under foreign registry of the Marshall Islands. "Sea-Land appreciates MarAd's decision and we will now move ahead with this process," said Sea-Land

CEO John Clancey. The carrier plans to complete the reflagging within three months, he said.

All five ships now operate in highly competitive services between ports in foreign countries. Three of the ships, the Sea-Land Price, the

Sea-Land Value and the Sea-Land

Motivator (SL-31s), sail in Sea-

Land's Asia/Middle East/Europe service.

The other two vessels, the Sea-

Land Freedom and Sea-Land Mari- ner (D9-Js), sail in the company's

Asia-Europe express service. Sea-

Land said the five ships will be managed by Intersea Operations

Limited (IOL), and will be operated and maintained to the highest in- dustry standards.

The new crews will complete com- prehensive training in operating procedures before assuming com- mand of the vessels, the company said. Sea-Land, reportedly the larg- est U.S.-flag ocean carrier, applied in June of 1993 to reflag 13 of its

U.S.-flag ships. Those applications "When I started building barges in 1964r I had long hair and drove a '51 Chevy with a '56 Packard rear end.

Hair's gone. Car's gone, isf A lot of those barges are =2 still around." af-Tv GarroldWyne ^^ JKh.. t 'f% Yard Manager

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Garrold Wyne. But, it's not at all uncommon for our barges to be in active service for up to three decades.

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