[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 33CFR402.3]



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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

 

CHAPTER IV--SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF 

                             TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 402_TARIFF OF TOLLS--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  402.3  Interpretation.



    In this tariff,

    (a) Bulk cargo means cargo consisting of goods, loose or in mass, 

that generally must be shoveled, pumped, blown, scooped or forked in the 

handling and includes:

    (1) Cement, loose or in sacks;

    (2) Coke and petroleum coke, loose or in sacks;

    (3) Domestic cargo;

    (4) Liquids carried in vessels' tanks;

    (5) Ores and minerals (crude, screened, sized or concentrated, but 

not otherwise processed) loose or in sacks, including alumina, bauxite, 

coal, gravel, phosphate rock, sand, stone and sulphur;

    (6) Pig iron and scrap metals;

    (7) Lumber, pulpwood, poles and logs, loose or bundled;

    (8) Raw sugar, flour, loose or in sacks;

    (9) Wood pulp, loose or in bales; and

    (10) Material for recycling, scrap material, refuse and waste.

    (b) Cargo means all goods aboard a vessel whether carried as revenue 

or non-revenue freight or carried for the vessel owner, but does not 

include:

    (1) Empty containers and the tare weight of loaded containers;

    (2) Ships' fuel, ballast or stores;

    (3) The personal effects of crew or passengers; or

    (4) In transit cargo that is carried both upbound and downbound in 

the course of the same voyage.

    (c) Containerized cargo means cargo shipped in a container that is 

enclosed, permanent, reusable, nondisposable, weather tight.

    (d) Corporation means the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development 

Corporation.

    (e) Domestic cargo means cargo the shipment of which originates at 

one Canadian point and terminates at another Canadian point, or 

originates at one United States point and terminates at another United 

States point, but does not include import or export cargo designated at 

the point of origin for transshipment by water at a point in Canada or 

in the United States.

    (f) General cargo means other than bulk cargo, grain, government aid 

cargo, steel slabs and coal.

    (g) Government aid cargo means:

    (1) Processed food products that are donated by, or the purchase of 

which has been financed on concessional terms by, the federal government 

of the United States or Canada for the purposes of nutrition, economic 

development, emergency, or disaster relief programs; and

    (2) Food cargo that is:

    (i) Owned or financed by a non-profit organization or cooperative;

    (ii) Intended for use in humanitarian or development assistance 

overseas; and

    (iii) Stamped or otherwise shown to have been declared as such to 

that is certified by the customs service of the United States or Canada.

    (h) Grain means barley, corn, oats, flaxseed, rapeseed, soybeans, 

field crop seeds, buckwheat, dried beans, dried peas, rye, wheat, grain 

screenings or meal from those grains.

    (i) Manager means the St.Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation.

    (j) Metric ton means 1,000 kilograms (2204.62 pounds).

    (k) New cargo--MLO Section means either containerized cargo or cargo 

which has not moved through the MLO Section in an average annual amount, 

over the navigation seasons 2001-2002-2003, greater than 10,000 metric 

tons.

    (l) New cargo--Welland Canal means either containerized cargo or 

cargo which has not moved through the Welland Canal in an average annual 

amount, over the navigation seasons 2001-2002-2003, greater than 10,000 

metric tons.

    (m) Passenger means a person being transported through the Seaway 

who has paid a fare for passage.

    (n) Pleasure craft means a vessel, however propelled, that is used 

exclusively for pleasure and does not carry passengers.



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    (o) Seaway includes all facilities and services authorized under 

Public Law 358, 83rd Congress, May 13, 1954, enacted by the Congress of 

the United States, as amended, (33 U.S.C. 981, et seq.) and the meaning 

ascribed to it under the Canada Marine Act.

    (p) Vessel (``ship'' in Canada) means every type of craft used as a 

means of transportation on water, except a vessel owned or employed by 

the Manager or the Corporation.



[66 FR 15329, Mar. 16, 2001, as amended at 71 FR 14807, Mar. 24, 2006]