It is difficult enough to meet this lowcost foreign competition without running into additional quarantineinspection costs every time a vessel fails to reach port before 6 p. m. Inasmuch. also. as there has been no information forthcoming as to the results of the promised Presidential study. I consider the need so pressing that I have prepared a modified bill which merely seeks to place the Quarantine Inspection Service on an equality with similar inspection staffs of Customs and the Immigration Service with respect to overtime compensation. All these employees are subject to 24hour call and. as the President so justly stated. the Public Health groups claims for equal treatment with other inspectional groups have much merit. Incidentally. the vessel owners for whom the overtime quarantine inspections will be made are quite willing to reimburse the Government for the full amount of overtime compensation paid. and this is provided for in the bill.
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