Excerpt from The Law of the Sea Treaty and Reauthorization of the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oceanography, Gulf of Mexico, and the Outer Continental Shelf of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session Good afternoon. I would like to welcome all of you here today on behalf of the Subcommittee on Oceanography, Gulf of Mexico and the Outer Continental Shelf. Today the Subcommittee meets to examine the Law of the Sea Treaty and the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act. The Law of the Sea was opened for signature in 1982 and will enter into force on November 16 of this year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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