The Congress finds that—
States have the responsibility for management of a broad range of living and nonliving resources in State waters and submerged lands; and
included in the range of resources are certain abandoned shipwrecks, which have been deserted and to which the owner has relinquished ownership rights with no retention.
Pub. L. 100–298, § 2102 Stat. 432(, , .)
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Pub. L. 100–298, § 1102 Stat. 432
“This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Abandoned Shipwreck Act of 1987’.”
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