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labeling, and certification of explosives or other dangerous articles or 

 substances to the extent as are or may be established from time to time 

 by the Interstate Commerce Commission insofar as they apply to 

 shippers by common carriers engaged in interstate or foreign com- 

 merce by water. The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall also 

 establish regulations with respect to marking, handling, storage, 

 stowage, and use of explosives or other dangerous articles or sub- 

 stances on board such vessels; with respect to the disposition of any 

 explosives or other dangerous articles or substances found to be in 

 an unsafe condition; with respect to the necessary shipping papers, 

 manifests, cargo-stowage plans, and the description and descriptive 

 names of explosives or other dangerous articles or substances to be 

 entered in such shipping documents; also any other regulations for 

 the safe transportation, carriage, conveyance, storage, stowage, or 

 use of explosives or other dangerous articles or substances on Ijoard 

 such vessels as the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall deem 

 necessary; and with respect to the inspection of all the foregoing 

 mentioned in this paragraph. The Commandant of the Coast Guard 

 may utilize the services of the Bureau for the Safe Transportation 

 of Explosives and Other Dangerous Articles, and of such other 

 organizations whose services he may deem to be helpful. 



(b) The transportation, carriage, conveyance, storage, stowage, 

 or use of such explosives or other dangerous articles or substances 

 shall be in accordance with the regulations so established, which shall, 

 insofar as applicable to them, respectively, be binding upon shippers 

 and the owners, charterers, agents, masters, or persons in charge of 

 such vessels, and upon all other persons transporting, carrying, con- 

 veying, storing, stowing, or using on board any such vessels any 

 explosives or other dangerous articles or substances : Pro-vided, That 

 this section shall not be construed to prevent the transportation of 

 military or naval forces with their accompanying munitions of war 

 and stores. 



(c) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to re- 

 lieve any vessel subject to the provisions of this section from any 

 other of the requirements of title 52 (sees. 4399 to 4500, inclusive) 

 of the Revised Statutes or Acts amendatory or supplementary thereto 

 and regulations thereunder applicable to such vessel, which are not 

 inconsistent herewith. 



(d) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as pre- 

 venting the enforcement of reasonable local regulations now in effect 

 or hereafter adopted, which are not inconsistent or in conflict with 

 this section or the regulations of the Commandant of the Coast Guard 

 established hereunder. 



(e) The United States Coast Guard shall issue no permit or 

 authorization for the loading or discharging to or from any vessel 

 at any point or place in the United States, its territories or pos- 

 sessions (not including Panama Canal Zone) of any explosives un- 

 less such explosives, for which a permit is required by the regulations 

 promulgated pursuant to this section, are packaged, marked, and 

 labeled in conformity with regulations prescribed by the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission under section 835 of Title 18, and unless 

 such permit or authorization specifies that the limits as to maximum 



