[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
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) Passenger means any person being transported through the Seaway 
who has paid a fare for passage.
    (l) Pleasure craft means a vessel, however propelled, that is used 
exclusively for pleasure and does not carry passengers.
    (m) 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.
    (n) 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 or the Corporation.

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