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43 U.S.C. § 2101

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The Congress finds that—
  1. (a)States have the responsibility for management of a broad range of living and nonliving resources in State waters and submerged lands; and
  2. (b)included in the range of resources are certain abandoned shipwrecks, which have been deserted and to which the owner has relinquished ownership rights with no retention.