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ISLE is proud to have the only original
known remaining copies in existance of all of the following
U.S. and U.N. Third World Law of the Seas Bills.
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| 3 95th Congress 1st Session H.R. 3652 February 17, 1977 "To Ensure the Development of the United States Ocean Mining Capabilities and to support the continuation of the Law of the Seas Conference Negotiations" |
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| 4 95th Congress 1st Session H.R. 4582 March 7, 1977 (House of Representative Bill) A Bill to Promote the Orderly development of Hard Mineral Resources in the Deep Seabed pending adoption of an International Regime relating thereto. |
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| 5 95th Congress 1st Session H.R. 6784 (House of Representative Bill) April 29, 1977 To encourage and International Regime to govern the use of the Oceans and their Resources. |
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| 7 95th Congress House of Representative Report 95-588 Part 1 'The Deep-Seabed Minerals Act" August 9, 1977
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| 8 95th Congress 1st Session S. 2085 (Senate Bill) September 12, 1977 To encourage the Orderly development of Deep Ocean Mining and to provide for environmental regulation of such mining pending adoption and transition to an International Regime
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10 95th Congress 1st Session S. 2168 (Senate Bill) September 30, 1977 A Bill to Promote the Orderly development of Hard Mineral Resources in the Deep Seabed pending an adoption of an International Regime relating thereto. |
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11 95th Congress 2nd Session 95-588 Part 3 February 16, 1978 To Accompany H.R. 3350 The Committee on International Relations to, whom was referred the Bill H.R. 3350. To Promote the Orderly Development of Hard Mineral Resources in the Deep Seabed pending adoption of an International Regime relating thereto. The amendments to the Bill, as amended by the committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and the committee on interior and insular affairs, which was referred to the committee on International regulations are as follows: Amendments to the Amendment of the committee on the merchant marine and fisheries. |
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12 96th Congress U.S. 1 To Establish and Interim procedure for the Orderly Development of Hard Mineral Resources in the Deep Seabed, pending adoption of and International Regime relating thereto and for other purposes. The Mineral Resources of the Deep Seabed are the Common Heritage of Mankind, with the expectation that this principle would be legally defined under the terms of a comprehensive International Law of the Sea Treaty yet to be agreed upon. |
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14 Report of the United States Delegation to the Eleventh Session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea June 1982
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