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              UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

                       Washington, D.C.

                                         FOR RELEASE

                                         Thursday, November 3, 1983


                      STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD

                               BY THE

                  OFFICE OF TiE GENERAL  COUNSEL                    II
                                                             122772
                  U.S. GENERAL ACCOUNTING  OFFICE

                       SUBMITTED TO THE

            COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND  FISHERIES

            UNITED  STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES



Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:

     We are pleased to present our views on H.R.  3953, a bill to

amend the Panama Canal Act of  1979 in order that outsidethe-locks

claims for vescols damaged may be resolved  in the same manner as

those dcamaged inside-the-locks, and for other purposes. We be-

lieve the bill to be legally and administratively  sound, and,

therefore, recommend its passage.

     There are three provisions of the bill  in particulat which we

would like to comment upon today.  These are sections  2 (b) ancd 4

which wculd change Lhe way in which the United States  scAtles

vessel darnmeaee claims for injuicies occurring outside-the- ocks of

the Panama Canal; section 5, in which the United States  %ould con-

sent to suits against, t-hc Panama Canl.- Commission in the United

States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisi na by


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