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title: "46 U.S.C. § 57516"
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# 46 U.S.C. § 57516 - Operating-differential subsidies

## Text

If the Secretary of Transportation considers it necessary, the Secretary may make a contract with a charterer of a vessel owned by the Secretary for payment of an operating-differential subsidy, on the same terms and conditions, and subject to the same limitations and restrictions, as otherwise provided with respect to payment of operating-differential subsidies to operators of privately-owned vessels.

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1667.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 5751646 App.:1198.June 29, 1936, ch. 858, title VII, § 708, 49 Stat. 2009; June 23, 1938, ch. 600, § 31, 52 Stat. 962; Pub. L. 97–31, § 12(110), Aug. 6, 1981, 95 Stat. 163.