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Mobil Donates $450,000 To

Woods Hob Oceanographic

Mobil Foundation, a charitable organization supported by Mobil

Corporation, will donate $450,000 over the next three years to the Woods

Hole Oceanographic Institution to help train Kazak and U.S. scientists in envi- ronmental and oceanographic factors affecting the Caspian Sea. The grant to

Woods Hole, one of the world's leading scientific institutions conducting research into the effects of pollution, weather, currents and tides on marine life, will fund a special program allow- ing 10 to 16 Kazak scientists to partici- pate in two, three-month training pro- grams over the next three years. Five

U.S. scientists will also do a field study of the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea is prime spawning ground for the caviar- producing sturgeon, a critical industry for KazakstanT In addition, many species of birds, seals and other fish make their home there. This program will help enhance scientific understand- ing of some of the region's problems, such as a sea level rise (the cause of coastal flooding), industrial pollution, over fishing of sturgeon and the effects of dams on the Volga River, which emp- ties into the Caspian Sea.

Mobil Corporation is part of a con- sortium evaluating the hydrocarbon potential of a 25 million-acre area of the Caspian Sea, one of the world's most prospective areas. The Kazak government selected Mobil to join the consortium in part because of its oper- ating experience in an environmentally sensitive area like Mobile Bay in the

Gulf of Mexico,where conditions are similar to those in the Caspian Sea. "The scientific training and research program, made possible by this grant from Mobil Foundation, continues the

Institution's efforts to understand coastal environments such as the Caspian Sea," said Dr. James Luyten, associate direc- tor for research of Woods Hole. "We welcome this opportunity to work with environmental scientists from Kazakstan to train them in state-of-the-art tech- niques of observing and analyzing the environmental conditions in the

Caspian Sea." a u t o s h i p

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Pressler Introduces Ocean Shipping Reform Act

Proposal would axe FMC eral government out of the busi- ness of regulating commercial practices which are better left to the private sector to administer," said Sen. Pressler.

The proposed Ocean Shipping

Reform Act was created to strengthen U.S. laws against unfair competition by foreign ship- ping companies. The measure is a companion measure to legislation approved by the House of

Transportation and Infrastructure

Committee on August 2, 1995.

In the first week of November,

Senator Larry Pressler (R- S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and

Transportation, introduced legisla- tion designed to deregulate the

U.S. ocean shipping industry and eliminate the Federal Maritime

Commission (FMC). The deregula- tion would be phased in through

January 1, 1998.

The measure, dubbed the Ocean

Shipping Reform Act of 1995, would transfer the duties of the defunct FMC to the Department of

Transportation as soon as would be practical in FY '96. The measure would also eliminate government tariff and contract filing require- ments, as well as government tar- iff enforcement and regulation, effective June 1, 1997. Under the measure, shippers and carriers would be allowed to enter into con- fidential service contracts; and independent rate actions on con- tracts would also be allowable, effective June 1, 1998. "This bill would produce an ocean transportation system that is up to the task of meeting the demands of U.S. businesses which strive to be competitive in the glob- al marketplace ... This phased-in timetable provides for a common sense approach for getting the fed-

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