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§ 3101. Authority to suspend inspection
When the President decides that the needs of foreign commerce require, the President may suspend a provision of this part for a foreign-built vessel registered as a vessel of the United States on conditions the President may specify.
(Pub. L. 98–89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 510.)