st PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 101 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION of America

SEN. JOHN HEINZ of Pennsylvania

IN THE SENATE Wednesday, February 21, 1990 (pp. 2212 – 2213)

By Mr. HEINZ: era . SECTION 1. WAIVER OF WAITING PERIOD S. 2151. A bill to permit the transfer The Requin was launched from of the obsolete submarine U.S.S. Portsmouth, NH on January 1, 1945, Clauses (2) and (3) of Section Requin to the Carnegie Institute in and later commissioned on April 28, 7308(c) of title 10, United States , PA. before the expira- 1945. While enroute to Guam, she was Code, shall not apply with respect to tion of the 60-day waiting period that ordered back to the Atlantic when the transfer by the Secretary of the would otherwise be applicable to the World War II ended. Following Navy under 7308(a) of such title of the transfer; to the Committee on Armed several months with Submarine obsolete submarine U.S.S. Requin to Services. Squadron 4 near , she the Carnegie Institute in , returned to Portsmouth and was Pennsylvania, for use by the Carnegie TRANSFER OF OBSOLETE SUBMARINE “U.S.S. converted to a submarine. Institute in connection with the Carne- REQUIN” For the next 25 years she served with gie Institute Science Center in distinction as a part of our submarine Pittsburgh. z z Mr. HEINZ. Mr. President, I rise fleet. today to introduce legislation that will The Requin’s extensive operations waive the 60-day congressional with the Second and Sixth Fleets took waiting period for the transfer of the her north of the Arctic Circle and on a submarine Requin to the Carnegie cruise around the South American Institute in Pittsburgh, PA. continent, from the Caribbean to the With the Secretary of the Navy’s Mediterranean, and throughout the recent approval of transferring this Atlantic Ocean. On December 3, 1968, submarine, waiving the standard 60- at the conclusion of her active service, day waiting period will permit Requin the Requin was decommissioned and to begin its journey from Tampa, FL was sent to St. Petersburg, FL, where to Pittsburgh during the early spring. she served as a Naval Reserve Speeding up this process is vital to the Training ship until struck from the museum’s receiving the submarine be- Navy list in December 1971. cause its river trip must be made when The Requin now has the opportuni- the waters of the Mississippi and Ohio ty to continue serving the Nation in a are at their highest level. The next few new role as part of the Carnegie months provide the only time of the Science Center. I look forward to her year when the 312-foot submarine will arrival along the banks of the Ohio be able to negotiate the rivers and River and urge my colleagues to sup- maneuver through the locks from the port this legislation permitting the Gulf of Mexico to the mouth of the Requin to soon become part of the Ohio. . The Requin has been moored in the Mr. President, I ask unanimous Hillsborough River in Tampa since consent that the text of the bill be prin- 1972 and the city is no longer ted into the RECORD. interested in keeping the 1945 Tench- There being no objection, the bill class submarine. Its availability could was ordered to be printed into the not be more timely for the Carnegie RECORD as follows: Institute. When it arrives in Pittsburgh, S. 2151 it will float in the as part of Be it enacted by the Senate and House the new Carnegie Science Center pro- of Representatives of the United States viding visitors the unique opportunity of America in Congress assembled. to see the workings of a World War II