S2444 ENR: Howard Coble Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014
U.S. Senate
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1.This Act may be cited as the Howard Coble Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014
.2.The table of contents for this Act is the following:Sec. 1. Short title.Sec. 2. Table of contents.TITLE I—AuthorizationSec. 101. Authorization of appropriations.Sec. 102. Authorized levels of military strength and training.TITLE II—Coast GuardSec. 201. Commissioned officers.Sec. 202. Commandant; appointment.Sec. 203. Prevention and response workforces.Sec. 204. Centers of expertise.Sec. 205. Penalties.Sec. 206. Agreements.Sec. 207. Tuition assistance program coverage of textbooks and other educational materials.Sec. 208. Coast Guard housing.Sec. 209. Lease authority.Sec. 210. Notification of certain determinations.Sec. 211. Annual Board of Visitors.Sec. 212. Flag officers.Sec. 213. Repeal of limitation on medals of honor.Sec. 214. Coast Guard family support and child care.Sec. 215. Mission need statement.Sec. 216. Transmission of annual Coast Guard authorization request.Sec. 217. Inventory of real property.Sec. 218. Retired service members and dependents serving on advisory committees.Sec. 219. Active duty for emergency augmentation of regular forces.Sec. 220. Acquisition workforce expedited hiring authority.Sec. 221. Coast Guard administrative savings.Sec. 222. Technical corrections to title 14.Sec. 223. Multiyear procurement authority for Offshore Patrol Cutters.Sec. 224. Maintaining Medium Endurance Cutter mission capability.Sec. 225. Aviation capability.Sec. 226. Gaps in writings on Coast Guard history.Sec. 227. Officer evaluation reports.Sec. 228. Improved safety information for vessels.Sec. 229. E–LORAN.Sec. 230. Analysis of resource deficiencies with respect to maritime border security.Sec. 231. Modernization of National Distress and Response System.Sec. 232. Report reconciling maintenance and operational priorities on the Missouri River.Sec. 233. Maritime Search and Rescue Assistance Policy assessment.TITLE III—Shipping and NavigationSec. 301. Repeal.Sec. 302. Donation of historical property.Sec. 303. Small shipyards.Sec. 304. Drug testing reporting.Sec. 305. Opportunities for sea service veterans.Sec. 306. Clarification of high-risk waters.Sec. 307. Technical corrections.Sec. 308. Report.Sec. 309. Fishing safety grant programs.Sec. 310. Establishment of Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee.Sec. 311. Travel and subsistence.Sec. 312. Prompt intergovernmental notice of marine casualties.Sec. 313. Area Contingency Plans.Sec. 314. International ice patrol reform.Sec. 315. Offshore supply vessel third-party inspection.Sec. 316. Watches.Sec. 317. Coast Guard response plan requirements.Sec. 318. Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council.Sec. 319. Uninspected passenger vessels in the United States Virgin Islands.Sec. 320. Treatment of abandoned seafarers.Sec. 321. Website.Sec. 322. Coast Guard regulations.TITLE IV—Federal Maritime CommissionSec. 401. Authorization of appropriations.Sec. 402. Award of reparations.Sec. 403. Terms of Commissioners.TITLE V—Arctic Maritime TransportationSec. 501. Arctic maritime transportation.Sec. 502. Arctic maritime domain awareness.Sec. 503. IMO Polar Code negotiations.Sec. 504. Forward operating facilities.Sec. 505. Icebreakers.Sec. 506. Icebreaking in polar regions.TITLE VI—MiscellaneousSec. 601. Distant water tuna fleet.Sec. 602. Extension of moratorium.Sec. 603. National maritime strategy.Sec. 604. Waivers.Sec. 605. Competition by United States flag vessels.Sec. 606. Vessel requirements for notices of arrival and departure and automatic identification
system.Sec. 607. Conveyance of Coast Guard property in Rochester, New York.Sec. 608. Conveyance of certain property in Gig Harbor, Washington.Sec. 609. Vessel determination.Sec. 610. Safe vessel operation in Thunder Bay.Sec. 611. Parking facilities.<enum>I</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization</header><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6ACB1EA6F186442AB77949729599BE72" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Funds are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2015 for necessary expenses of the Coast
Guard as follows:</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEF7990FFB176443AA5900A9CA062234B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard, $6,981,036,000.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9B837C71EF09434AB41C8DBE30DE0561"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the acquisition, construction, rebuilding, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and
offshore facilities, vessels, and aircraft, including equipment related
thereto, $1,546,448,000, to remain available until expended.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF3BBF61232A847148B876DC2A8C6FA67"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the Coast Guard Reserve program, including personnel and training costs, equipment, and
services, $140,016,000.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2BFDEACE25CD4A42819B6A4B49E27735"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For environmental compliance and restoration of Coast Guard vessels, aircraft, and facilities
(other than parts and equipment associated with operation and
maintenance), $16,701,000, to remain available until expended.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBA0FB2BF52554B94B972F2BC89B65110"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the Commandant of the Coast Guard for research, development, test, and evaluation of
technologies, materials, and human factors directly related to improving
the performance of the Coast Guard's mission with respect to search and
rescue, aids to navigation, marine safety, marine environmental
protection, enforcement of laws and treaties, ice operations,
oceanographic research, and defense readiness, $19,890,000.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2A694BC2858B4B939F5F7CCCC363F871"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For alteration or removal of bridges over navigable waters of the United States constituting
obstructions to navigation, and for personnel and administrative costs
associated with the Alteration of Bridges Program, $16,000,000.</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE735397B09554CE9A880EC3F7DAE724E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorized levels of military strength and training</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8F49636605BB42E38312EFCEAB4AE659"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Active duty strength</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Coast Guard is authorized an end-of-year strength for active duty personnel of 43,000 for
fiscal year 2015.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDD1719C61A06488AA247947905D59F5A"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Military training student loads</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Coast Guard is authorized average military training student loads for fiscal year 2015 as
follows:</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H14BC0CABF7CC4B0294C58CD044686B23"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For recruit and special training, 2,500 student years.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H47A65A30FF5E453BB32479331064A197"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For flight training, 165 student years.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7CFBAAC5339B4DD59E96739DAF1F7A67"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For professional training in military and civilian institutions, 350 student years.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H866E1C0DBB504FC98DF8AD7B0B7D84FA"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For officer acquisition, 1,200 student years.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard</header><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDD0270464B6F4CC09F519B0BA57DDE5A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commissioned officers</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/42">Section 42(a)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>7,200</quote> and inserting <quote>6,900</quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H54A691885AA947DB8273F08B9D8B8AF8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commandant; appointment</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/44">Section 44</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the first sentence the
following: <quote>The term of an appointment, and any reappointment, shall begin on June 1 of the appropriate year
and end on May 31 of the appropriate year, except that, in the event of
death, retirement, resignation, or reassignment, or when the needs of the
Service demand, the Secretary may alter the date on which a term begins or
ends if the alteration does not result in the term exceeding a period of 4
years.</quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB3D78E1CFB6B4D06A66FBA3EED90A063" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prevention and response workforces</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/57">Section 57</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H40C9E4FC333F4DB2AC080DBB89D5D84F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBB316270A91949CC90D057DD09B06BFE"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2) by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEFCE9B5AA0054F3FAC5A79983D4D00CA"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3) by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H370C617A8435451E89EFB3DCF8FD77EC"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2CCA0289A3A14BE0B4102BBE5ED53B6D" style="USC"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC8F058183E5A4F3B9D013D4CE2889FC7"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">waterways operations manager shall have knowledge, skill, and practical experience with respect to
marine transportation system management; or</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5709C595F52B45B9B5B4014F292D80AE"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">port and facility safety and security specialist shall have knowledge, skill, and practical
experience with respect to the safety, security, and environmental
protection responsibilities associated with maritime ports and facilities.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF552A29BED0943858C2F950EC1A7B132"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c) by striking <quote>or marine safety engineer</quote> and inserting <quote>marine safety engineer, waterways operations manager, or port and facility safety and security
specialist</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H34CDAFE7A06E4C4C929636180A8F13DA"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (f)(2) by striking <quote>investigator or marine safety engineer.</quote> and inserting <quote>investigator, marine safety engineer, waterways operations manager, or port and facility safety and
security specialist.</quote>.</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H885C5D3DAACC4525B88281669F67FF96" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>204.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Centers of expertise</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/58">Section 58(b)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB7732692CA92491D9F25F8218ADBDC10" style="USC"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD423E3127CAF4E7590EB7291A20691E5"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Missions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any center established under subsection (a) shall—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H763852730D354B71AC74DB673E2E021E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">promote, facilitate, and conduct—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9F23257D66354999B49AAA8F067BFE10"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">education;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H70207207320C4A788DB992694FAB2443"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">training; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8CAF076518CC4DED9DB566A36FEFB435"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">activities authorized under section 93(a)(4);</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H63E1734D1F994A7C84301D0ADCC204D3"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be a repository of information on operations, practices, and resources related to the mission for
which the center was established; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2191AE1090314BED8F39073B1DD9B6B4"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">perform and support the mission for which the center was established.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H395815D0835A4CD899C6C4210AEE3C6A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>205.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Penalties</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2323032E7ABD49F6BEAD11AEFA6E5601"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Aids to navigation and false distress messages</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/5">Chapter 5</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H20F6876477CA4FF89724E7471CCD926E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 83 by striking <quote>$100</quote> and inserting <quote>$1,500</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4FB63CC4EB5C4B809B9D4ED7FB8A1642"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 84 by striking <quote>$500</quote> and inserting <quote>$1,500</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9330E6A4688F4613B962BB0F24289C39"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 85 by striking <quote>$100</quote> and inserting <quote>$1,500</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2EE270736A324F7A95B55241A71588D2"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 88(c)(2) by striking <quote>$5,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$10,000</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H12E281F04E4A400DB14DFAC5B679035A"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Unauthorized use of words <quote>Coast Guard</quote></header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/639">Section 639</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>$1,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$10,000</quote>.</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H198721EC6B584A1FA4CD94867D9A1AE6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>206.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agreements</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0EDDC0F1A0204676B4EB6073C367BA8F"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/93">Section 93(a)(4)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H801B2E5D4D214058ACA11445EE70E86E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>, investigate</quote> and inserting <quote>and investigate</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H37A6D1C5E32B4A6D9C6ADFF9D04AB8A9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>, and cooperate and coordinate such activities with other Government agencies and with private
agencies</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H30A6B1820F8E4CA5BE1939489D63FC6C"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/5">Chapter 5</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, as amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at
the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0D0168A255BA47528442474048B65AFB" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCFC655497CBF4E269783C1EE675CF09F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agreements</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFBEC4497E16F498CAB6CB5A49C0ABD10"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out section 93(a)(4), the Commandant may—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB7D075AC8EFB49EF92FFBBB9FFE33D46"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">enter into cooperative agreements, contracts, and other agreements with—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H09399388A2DC4975B348C9DC7B2199A2"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal entities;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC4F61D52F49D4DD3A2059C6A71EC9E80"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">other public or private entities in the United States, including academic entities; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6C7750C55DC54CCF80E21C38CD65B222"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">foreign governments with the concurrence of the Secretary of State; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEA9E4538416A4A96868B2721DBECCC69"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">impose on and collect from an entity subject to an agreement or contract under paragraph (1) a fee
to assist with expenses incurred in carrying out such section.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD3A22767729242DAB1D8A2A2A2F9DCCF"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Deposit and use of fees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fees collected under this section shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury as
offsetting receipts. The fees may be used, to the extent provided in
advance in an appropriation law, only to carry out activities under
section 93(a)(4).</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC995B8CC78004E76A4925F581CDDE2C1"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3796A886190F40EA9756818FF0C37756" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">102. Agreements.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H27338229D58E47F683F38B8B0080EF68" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>207.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Tuition assistance program coverage of textbooks and other educational materials</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/93">Section 93(a)(7)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting <quote>and the textbooks, manuals, and other materials required as part of such training or course of
instruction</quote> after <quote>correspondence courses</quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6B2A39815FE64A6BAA74AD6B0140442F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>208.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard housing</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3B4C5C3C45604E9681392B9C4F97D082"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commandant; general powers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/93">Section 93(a)(13)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>the Treasury</quote> and inserting <quote>the fund established under section 687</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H832017C2CD1B48BE845E898D24C8A8B4"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Lighthouse property</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/672a">Section 672a(b)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>the Treasury</quote> and inserting <quote>the fund established under section 687</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC50D2D7BDB0747CFA16F8D2C00F7B464"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/687">Section 687(b)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDA378BC4FFDF40418458C1EDEEEBD0F8" style="USC"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H04395F6389FD4050881D7406A791B773"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Monies received under section 93(a)(13).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFCBD13186B1746F28AE7D216F53400DA"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts received under section 672a(b).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9047980832E14D56ACA36D77B678249D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>209.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Lease authority</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/93">Section 93</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7280C76E0A1B4AAEAE85B3E84E7AEACD" style="USC"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEFAEA30205724F55B6BBC0D00376928D"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Leasing of Tidelands and Submerged Lands</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2D7780A2F623472595A32444378DE77E"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant may lease under subsection (a)(13) submerged lands and tidelands under the control
of the Coast Guard without regard to the limitation under that subsection
with respect to lease duration.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7421812AF7FD409B8E5EC79D9A7CD02D"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant may lease submerged lands and tidelands under paragraph (1) only if—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7485AB9BA0C3423AA6BA69237CA29D3A"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">lease payments are—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCFE3AA5E49D149A7B2DDF2E354B356FB"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">received exclusively in the form of cash;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H10EDB768939B4D20883A8868D1FDD222"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">equal to the fair market value of the use of the leased submerged lands or tidelands for the period
during which such lands are leased, as determined by the Commandant; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA53A8D2CF5B64C6DBCC0CFC4481360E7"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">deposited in the fund established under section 687; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5B6E35E3413D4711A737A5665B3467D1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the lease does not provide authority to or commit the Coast Guard to use or support any
improvements to such submerged lands or tidelands, or obtain goods or
services from the lessee.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB0A423FB9C3046E2B7D4284DF7D57274" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>210.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notification of certain determinations</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF6248D951BC44B138DCB7D2EF9D7288E"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/5">Chapter 5</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, as amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at
the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H49CD71330A084A929113B434C1DF2B04" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H03B4BBBF452E4E9F8874F64F0CFEF84F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notification of certain determinations</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC39AEE19101444CAA6D7C75DDBD606AB"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">At least 90 days prior to making a final determination that a waterway, or a portion thereof, is
navigable for purposes of the jurisdiction of the Coast Guard, the
Commandant shall provide notification regarding the proposed determination
to—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5F23494166A4475DA3838590800CC32E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Governor of each State in which such waterway, or portion thereof, is located;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6F48B1C85E474A17BBE5BF42C564722E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the public; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA8FCFA688C054C53896D3CFDC5CC8429"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6CE727A1597748CD97A530A94AF7FFF7"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Content requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each notification provided under subsection (a) to an entity specified in paragraph (3) of that
subsection shall include—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H718392ACC1D240EAB0084F8EB3310FD3"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an analysis of whether vessels operating on the waterway, or portion thereof, subject to the
proposed determination are subject to inspection or similar regulation by
State or local officials;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9FAF629366C14ACE8ED91AB38E754E19"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an analysis of whether operators of commercial vessels on such waterway, or portion thereof, are
subject to licensing or similar regulation by State or local officials;
and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC3EF599350184D3BB2D9690F23C6A5DE"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an estimate of the annual costs that the Coast Guard may incur in conducting operations on such
waterway, or portion thereof.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE46F888F220C4222B0B402893ABD99DC"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for such chapter, as amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the
following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEB8B95D0744E4433A89DD1B9BF1110A6" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">103. Notification of certain determinations.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H57261040CD3248D1830EE8F211DB458E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>211.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual Board of Visitors</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/194">Section 194</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC0B66876A0C646AB8E71A1A29020C358" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H36254BC215974204B407C395DA924BB8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>194.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual Board of Visitors</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H56C0158629BA4EDD994D3C0CD49CD143"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A Board of Visitors to the Coast Guard Academy is established to review and make recommendations on
the operation of the Academy.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1FCA81B92BC9489689BCDC32078DB07F"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Membership</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HED73E28292DA40AD9F2F865299A9072C"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The membership of the Board shall consist of the following:</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H58C284C926AB4A988BDA1B6FE91F68F5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, or the
chairman’s designee.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H96C8B9FF29CE4940AF481D4C66ECA58C"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives,
or the chairman’s designee.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4179A340257F4F8FB37A13E5D2176CE0"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">3 Members of the Senate designated by the Vice President.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5E1DB618FD2740BCAAF59C5853FFC24B"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">4 Members of the House of Representatives designated by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA6EE8FC3459A486F8DD94631C39EC570"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">6 individuals designated by the President.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4FD16AED2FAD43928055A3AED6B3498C"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Length of service</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H871D69CF48C544E8B8D0EBC1E21AB0AC"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Members of Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A Member of Congress designated under subparagraph (C) or (D) of paragraph (1) as a member of the
Board shall be designated as a member in the First Session of a Congress
and serve for the duration of that Congress.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4BCD52C0475D4C2AA5416FE9023ABBF8"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Individuals designated by the President</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each individual designated by the President under subparagraph (E) of paragraph (1) shall serve as
a member of the Board for 3 years, except that any such member whose term
of office has expired shall continue to serve until a successor is
appointed.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1A573B68920F406BA5C6E6C5A72854CC"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Death or resignation of a member</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a member of the Board dies or resigns, a successor shall be designated for any unexpired portion
of the term of the member by the official who designated the member.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA2A005F7A04C49D4A213BB6696C55CC0"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Academy visits</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9DA5D8D4478346DFBDFA1D4DEE433FB9"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual visit</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Board shall visit the Academy annually to review the operation of the Academy.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9D34B424FBFF433292A9FE20EB5742C1"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Additional visits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With the approval of the Secretary, the Board or individual members of the Board may make other
visits to the Academy in connection with the duties of the Board or to
consult with the Superintendent of the Academy.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB086A4874F9D424E9B328D95CDF30C3E"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Scope of review</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Board shall review, with respect to the Academy—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDDCC904FF08B4A32A965EF4F5529C604"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the state of morale and discipline;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9BD1716494C9438DBF8BCD86FF5406C6"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the curriculum;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3A9D8E660E5C4269B0BAB5CCEF7EC6DD"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">instruction;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCADA1A7CAF1149F1BF90E0931BD79C33"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">physical equipment;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFFFB2D5DBE5B43F48D7330C82659D3FE"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fiscal affairs; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H60D1772E8999432FA46E08A3C4E18F38"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">other matters relating to the Academy that the Board determines appropriate.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC2B9B78E60F54E32B339496F1469B852"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after the date of an annual visit of the Board under subsection (c)(1), the
Board shall submit to the Secretary, the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation of the Senate, and the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report on the actions of
the Board during such visit and the recommendations of the Board
pertaining to the Academy.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDE7BC2BE892A498C830773FE83E545BA"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Advisors</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If approved by the Secretary, the Board may consult with advisors in carrying out this section.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H78D550748702474C9A36FFE34BDA3FFD"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reimbursement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each member of the Board and each adviser consulted by the Board under subsection (f) shall be
reimbursed, to the extent permitted by law, by the Coast Guard for actual
expenses incurred while engaged in duties as a member or adviser.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDAB1F9AFA2484F5280F13F347C574F3D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>212.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Flag officers</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF078BB21BB934AB3862329438832B0C8"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 295 the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H67622F2A6EDF491F80B32CA4736BCB29" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9A65E589E70B449091635FB37C8C7ABD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>296.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Flag officers</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">During any period in which the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Navy, section
1216(d) of title 10 does not apply with respect to flag officers of the
Coast Guard.</text></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1E5A1ECCC7C1494C97F6A2AAD7880C91"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/11">chapter 11</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item
relating to section 295 the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H59E54046FFFB4CACBB12FB9141D620B4" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">296. Flag officers.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC17992A8E7A7462B80904458E2E2FE99" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>213.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Repeal of limitation on medals of honor</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/494">Section 494</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking “medal of honor,” each place it
appears.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5CB64E9484554FE3847D08BEF20734CB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>214.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard family support and child care</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC604E172CC1841209E1383ACE22EB934"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title 14, United States Code, as amended by this Act, is further amended by inserting after chapter
13 the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB368D930FA7C4613A973956A29C5DB10" style="USC"><chapter commented="no" id="H1A3209CAAADB4DDDBEF64F29E6A39D58" level-type="subsequent"><enum>14</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard family support and child care</header><toc container-level="chapter-container" idref="H1A3209CAAADB4DDDBEF64F29E6A39D58" lowest-bolded-level="division-lowest-bolded" lowest-level="section" quoted-block="no-quoted-block" regeneration="yes-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" idref="H27A5D5EA94B2444089E2DEB8919D01CE" level="subchapter">Subchapter I—General provisions</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" idref="HA776AC34179D446DA87B49F9B56C5F7D" level="section">Sec.</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">531. Work-life policies and programs.</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" idref="HFC27C78A56164A26AE7958C7377ED52A" level="section">532. Surveys of Coast Guard families.</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" idref="H43B878E52CBE45B4A8223940950DF036" level="subchapter">Subchapter II—Coast Guard family support</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" idref="H090930ABA2344301A157FEB34BDEC656" level="section">542. Education and training opportunities for Coast Guard spouses.</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" idref="HC3CBCCA2D697464591704CD857AD8680" level="section">543. Youth sponsorship initiatives.</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" idref="H0A9BE9D83275467DBFCBF0A17BC82C05" level="subchapter">Subchapter III—Coast Guard child care</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" idref="H91AB8369964042D9B7DE32F041308F87" level="section">551. Definitions.</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" idref="H8FDC142C0FD1497DB646B3A3CBD1F1AC" level="section">553. Child development center standards and inspections.</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" idref="H3038956838D94760814C1E5BF7BFDDD2" level="section">554. Child development center employees.</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" idref="H0E4634B4B3DC4664A3C379482890199B" level="section">555. Parent partnerships with child development centers.</toc-entry></toc><subchapter commented="no" id="H27A5D5EA94B2444089E2DEB8919D01CE" level-type="subsequent"><enum>I</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">General provisions</header><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA776AC34179D446DA87B49F9B56C5F7D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>531.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Work-life policies and programs</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Commandant is authorized—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA3C695C8D7754E76A47C3E47C0818AB7"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to establish an office for the purpose of developing, promulgating, and coordinating policies,
programs, and activities related to the families of Coast Guard members;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7E581CC6024843BE87FCE9756F295855"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to implement and oversee policies, programs, and activities described in paragraph (1) as the
Commandant considers necessary; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5EA3496F74D741418F83BDD108516A7A"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to perform such other duties as the Commandant considers necessary.</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFC27C78A56164A26AE7958C7377ED52A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>532.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Surveys of Coast Guard families</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H49B5539793124ABBA35F9D02E4539607"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant, in order to determine the effectiveness of Federal policies, programs, and
activities related to the families of Coast Guard members, may survey—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H40AB515F28C8412BA7A6090A84D9392D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any Coast Guard member;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H989522CE059E4EDC8FC5490DC620F867"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any retired Coast Guard member;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H87D46F45AE5547399EB229D89EA03C2E"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the immediate family of any Coast Guard member or retired Coast Guard member; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE19F2224CF6A4EE7A9E1D7628FC3EEDB"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any survivor of a deceased Coast Guard member.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0582FC20C312435CBBEFA4CC2DA2325C"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Voluntary participation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Participation in any survey conducted under subsection (a) shall be voluntary.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF56091D7E35D4F4FB36D70B57A4F9612"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal recordkeeping</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each person surveyed under subsection (a) shall be considered an employee of the United States for
purposes of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/44/3502">section 3502(3)(A)(i)</external-xref> of title 44.</text></subsection></section></subchapter><subchapter commented="no" id="H43B878E52CBE45B4A8223940950DF036" level-type="subsequent"><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard family support</header><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H090930ABA2344301A157FEB34BDEC656" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>542.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Education and training opportunities for Coast Guard spouses</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0F62611C45434117B9059AAF9AC1E652"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Tuition assistance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant may provide, subject to the availability of appropriations, tuition assistance to an
eligible spouse to facilitate the acquisition of—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H43869C300D4B4353BF44E393387AE1B0"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">education and training required for a degree or credential at an accredited college, university, or
technical school in the United States that expands employment and portable
career opportunities for the spouse; or</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1DB6704CAFF24366B737727EA0848DEF"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">education prerequisites and a professional license or credential required, by a government or
government-sanctioned licensing body, for an occupation that expands
employment and portable career opportunities for the spouse.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4E68571366D54A308D5DFB4E655FF1D0"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the following definitions apply:</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H65EFF602C37C4AB19B7AC32FA31CDDE8"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible spouse</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD5F465825BA54FE9BD0E2F08EDFD169A"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible spouse</term> means the spouse of a member of the Coast Guard who is serving on active duty and includes a
spouse who receives transitional compensation under section 1059 of title
10.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF97AD13392EE4B029FC6593CD145F21C"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exclusion</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible spouse</term> does not include a person who—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H157837AC83244C79AA24FF66929CC7E8"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is married to, but legally separated from, a member of the Coast Guard under a court order or
statute of any State or territorial possession of the United States; or</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB5C677DFC89142EE921DF20C046B03B8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is eligible for tuition assistance as a member of the Armed Forces.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC1D0E378809A4C7C93EAC7C9A08D6EFF"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Portable career</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>portable career</term> includes an occupation that requires education, training, or both that results in a credential
that is recognized by an industry, profession, or specific type of
business.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC3CBCCA2D697464591704CD857AD8680" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>543.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Youth sponsorship initiatives</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H741976E1B0B54E198FA1992351082248"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant is authorized to establish, within any Coast Guard unit, an initiative to help
integrate into new surroundings the dependent children of members of the
Coast Guard who received permanent change of station orders.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9FA3D2A661CF4E498B250ABC32D06700"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Description of initiative</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An initiative established under subsection (a) shall—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8851441627264F2FAB2A0C25463FCB6E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide for the involvement of a dependent child of a member of the Coast Guard in the dependent
child’s new Coast Guard community; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H888353D4062E409DB6A5DB4E23488E09"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">primarily focus on preteen and teenaged children.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H786989FCFA0F4C59805A8B05AE09DBA6"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out an initiative under subsection (a), the Commandant may—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H69938AF2723F46E6AC677A96EE949013"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide to a dependent child of a member of the Coast Guard information on youth programs and
activities available in the dependent child’s new Coast Guard community;
and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H701F67B358534E699E50EC97237EA173"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">enter into agreements with nonprofit entities to provide youth programs and activities to such
child.</text></paragraph></subsection></section></subchapter><subchapter commented="no" id="H0A9BE9D83275467DBFCBF0A17BC82C05" level-type="subsequent"><enum>III</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard child care</header><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H91AB8369964042D9B7DE32F041308F87" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>551.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subchapter, the following definitions apply:</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4A99FFB84A8246A7B537B506EC6D1D7B"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Child abuse and neglect</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>child abuse and neglect</term> has the meaning given that term in section 3 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42
U.S.C. 5101 note).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5761AC95FFC04518A9824AF1500794A2"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Child development center employee</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>child development center employee</term> means a civilian employee of the Coast Guard who is employed to work in a Coast Guard child
development center without regard to whether the employee is paid from
appropriated or nonappropriated funds.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HED6CA5087D2C4F44B4DAD5BCA7B9BAC6"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard child development center</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Coast Guard child development center</term> means a facility on Coast Guard property or on property under the jurisdiction of the commander of
a Coast Guard unit at which child care services are provided for members
of the Coast Guard.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H20C8A28581494293A940EE09AB5E20F7"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Competitive service position</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>competitive service position</term> means a position in the competitive service (as defined in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/5/2102">section 2102</external-xref> of title 5).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8FEE8E92DCE64868BF674806681FEC18"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Family home daycare</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>family home daycare</term> means home-based child care services provided for a member of the Coast Guard by an individual
who—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H088ED729B14B410B88091FC9C9F1B021"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is certified by the Commandant as qualified to provide home-based child care services; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4091139D9DFB4CD1A2F8166E0181B2FB"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provides home-based child care services on a regular basis in exchange for monetary compensation.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8FDC142C0FD1497DB646B3A3CBD1F1AC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>553.<?LEXA-Enum 553.?></enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Child development center standards and inspections</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H30BD1EF878754DFD85863D24D5946388"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Standards</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant shall require each Coast Guard child development center to meet standards that the
Commandant considers appropriate to ensure the health, safety, and welfare
of the children and employees at the center.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEBCB70556CFC4B02942BF2EC4CC1862C"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Inspections</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant shall provide for regular and unannounced inspections of each Coast Guard child
development center to ensure compliance with this section.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H31B094F2B9E84E80A9921B20C467BB33"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National reporting</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0FFDE6F529AB4DC3B1233FF85FF11144"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant shall maintain and publicize a means by which an individual can report, with respect
to a Coast Guard child development center or a family home daycare—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBA1967229DCD4B34951A39DCB5E51D80"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any suspected violation of—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H59E58D92B1664E0CB761CFD8267DA787"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">standards established under subsection (a); or</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD3534A868A8246C38FD27CE11E6C2ABF"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other applicable law or standard;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9ABAB9F066DB4F80BC1C41675DB19E5E"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">suspected child abuse or neglect; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7291692264A74DD4926FF3D27160D131"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other deficiency.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1B1CD9FB97CC47D887F0D342A189AD00"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Anonymous reporting</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant shall ensure that an individual making a report pursuant to paragraph (1) may do so
anonymously if so desired by the individual.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0DC83C7C6A2A46009A7CD367A73197D8"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Procedures</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant shall establish procedures for investigating reports made pursuant to paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3038956838D94760814C1E5BF7BFDDD2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>554.<?LEXA-Enum 554.?></enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Child development center employees</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H25F486E59F254C26A1FD95A2087BCEFD"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA1133CA27B4B425ABAAED9E1760DEC7E"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant shall establish a training program for Coast Guard child development center
employees and satisfactory completion of the training program shall be a
condition of employment for each employee of a Coast Guard child
development center.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H859FD277B90E4B648515F393D4D3AEFA"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Timing for new hires</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant shall require each employee of a Coast Guard child development center to complete
the training program established under paragraph (1) not later than 6
months after the date on which the employee is hired.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H431B4483EDFD4C71887A4249C5CE7818"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minimum requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The training program established under paragraph (1) shall include, at a minimum, instruction with
respect to—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H19A0204933E84FF7B2024C816F19295D"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">early childhood development;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3F25681401A4460C92437F098B7DD7E6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">activities and disciplinary techniques appropriate to children of different ages;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H81FAE5B407614E69A38F2832AC323CE1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">child abuse and neglect prevention and detection; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H56F7DF813C0B4DB8984FBA60EC640051"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other emergency medical procedures.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6DCF9053B31E4637B8A8C1261F7FE600"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of Department of Defense programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant may use Department of Defense training programs, on a reimbursable or
nonreimbursable basis, for purposes of this subsection.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB3C82CF8360C433FA7469A0CD7A24F35"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training and curriculum specialists</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB10C20A290DD49E3BA9559B9EBBB13E4"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Specialist required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant shall require that at least 1 employee at each Coast Guard child development center
be a specialist in training and curriculum development with appropriate
credentials and experience.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8AFE6CCD5C1C499EB8A7D53E580328C7"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The duties of the specialist described in paragraph (1) shall include—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H758B03B4862F4218A98B64C3CD3204D7"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">special teaching activities;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2A18C688A27446C3A7CCC739A1805C85"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">daily oversight and instruction of other child care employees;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1759A1FE0BD145A096128BA10ACCF53C"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">daily assistance in the preparation of lesson plans;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H10C2327D9F7B420DBC608B848133007C"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assisting with child abuse and neglect prevention and detection; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB622C02CEBF945D79D4ADB08979DAAF3"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">advising the director of the center on the performance of the other child care employees.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H41BFFCEBD4054B19B92452522F28D616"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Competitive service</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each specialist described in paragraph (1) shall be an employee in a competitive service position.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0E4634B4B3DC4664A3C379482890199B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>555.<?LEXA-Enum 555.?></enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Parent partnerships with child development centers</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9C7A619B081C406BA2F48BE18A2C1504"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Parent boards</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA491984D05274143899895ED46DEB4C1"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Formation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant shall require that there be formed at each Coast Guard child development center a
board of parents, to be composed of parents of children attending the
center.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3EE16592F07C403DBDA683E13FD8CB5B"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Functions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each board of parents formed under paragraph (1) shall—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H868CD919238446829F7C21B1106F5CB4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">meet periodically with the staff of the center at which the board is formed and the commander of
the unit served by the center, for the purpose of discussing problems and
concerns; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4CAD064D1BBD401CB8D7EFCA7A0FCF27"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be responsible, together with the staff of the center, for coordinating any parent participation
initiative established under subsection (b).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H735F6A08DDB6400091883029912FC6D4"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">FACA</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) does not apply to a board of parents formed
under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H43D91B17DDAF44BEAE541437860FDEC6"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Parent participation initiative</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant is authorized to establish a parent participation initiative at each Coast Guard
child development center to encourage and facilitate parent participation
in educational and related activities at the center.</text></subsection></section></subchapter></chapter><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8096E4CBFB5842DAB9E72299C1739C53"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfer of provisions</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H82249E7E79614775BAFEB4523601BF8F"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H92FC89E0597646B2B3E5889433D9E07D"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reimbursement for adoption expenses</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/514">Section 514</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is redesignated as section 541 and transferred to
appear before section 542 of such title, as added by subsection (a) of
this section.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB68DD59C1DC64A2F9D0B148DD88F82D4"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Child development services</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/515">Section 515</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5D55A26769DB4940BA2034CF492758C5"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is redesignated as section 552 and transferred to appear after section 551 of such title, as added
by subsection (a) of this section; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB300BECC333E4E008EE966B45F6FB31C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is amended—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9DE8F14C69C84AD9969ACAD8F65DB3D8"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)(2)(B) by inserting <quote>and whether a family is participating in an initiative established under section 555(b)</quote> after <quote>family income</quote>;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H480069915B4B456DB28980B847707345"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsections (c) and (e); and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H39CD36676F9D4329A4F6815A6D292704"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (c).</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0B6C9F7A184B4A75A3578A52E4C2C336"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Dependent school children</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/657">Section 657</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAF31D908575D4418887175A258428758"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is redesignated as section 544 and transferred to appear after section 543 of such title, as added
by subsection (a) of this section; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H840A0258577847CBB3EDBE3B1C7B6329"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is amended in subsection (a) by striking <quote>Except as otherwise</quote> and all that follows through <quote>the Secretary may</quote> and inserting <quote>The Secretary may</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCD61F4EA3CCA431D94620B8371EC02F2"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendments</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4A048DB476E54B90A2BDFFB0F6AF2DB7"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Part I</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for part I of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item
relating to chapter 13 the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3F8C28A37D91414EAB011E0C50733D78" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><multi-column-toc-entry bold="off" level="section"><toc-enum>14.</toc-enum><level-header bold="off" level="section">Coast Guard Family Support and Child Care</level-header><target>531</target></multi-column-toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H78A034E4410948F28F42CDD9277C5909"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 13</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/13">chapter 13</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5050CF49CE134232A6B8B51A2337DAF5"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the item relating to section 514; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HED50012C2754435A9155A3CC25A57CDB"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the item relating to section 515.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2BEF56B9AE434DB69092C92D048071F5"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 14</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/14">chapter 14</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, as added by subsection (a) of this
section, is amended by inserting—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0644BADE25914371BBEBB21696F5D1C4"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">before the item relating to section 542 the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7185B9D7A938459B8AA3971B9F7E2DAF" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">541. Reimbursement for adoption expenses.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC632B1292F194C3092BF0FBE662E278F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">after the item relating to section 551 the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE53E5F7B7D1F45EBA5052D64594A8F79" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">552. Child development services.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB1B25B36D28349C4B775D16EB7F8553F"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">after the item relating to section 543 the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC1495C23F9824F20875CDB4EECE3D8C8" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">544. Dependent school children.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5BF0353FE7A642079FF19A09C18C7DBE"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 17</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/17">chapter 17</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking the item
relating to section 657.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7762DCB8F0EF4E8AA22AB35ABCA779D4"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commandant; general powers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/93">Section 93(a)(7)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, as amended by this Act, is further amended by
inserting “, and to eligible spouses as defined under section 542,” after
“Coast Guard”.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H112631EE543A4834B93D6053F190C7D9"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sense of Congress</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H85D15FC4985B49F4A194CC77B25E95B6"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It is the sense of Congress that the amount of funds appropriated for a fiscal year for operating
expenses related to Coast Guard child development services should not be
less than the amount of the child development center fee receipts
estimated to be collected by the Coast Guard during that fiscal year.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4F2F50408A06440093D5205630F99B14"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Child development center fee receipts defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection, the term <term>child development center fee receipts</term> means fees paid by members of the Coast Guard for child care services provided at Coast Guard
child development centers.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H453561C63B54470C89271E170DC775C7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>215.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mission need statement</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H92F5669914634DC98DF9C7C9ABD7AAD6"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/569">Section 569</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBFE5FA9A3F7C4D538862F6A54BD4392C" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H56C017B6FE184123A7DA64993FDE86B6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>569.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mission need statement</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H043209971ECA473596C4CA5951ADCEC1"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On the date on which the President submits to Congress a budget for fiscal year 2016 under section
1105 of title 31, on the date on which the President submits to Congress a
budget for fiscal year 2019 under such section, and every 4 years
thereafter, the Commandant shall submit to the Committee on Transportation
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate an integrated major
acquisition mission need statement.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H76CBC55A60D846759376457BE8AE78EE"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the following definitions apply:</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4D8B8A74EF3B46E3A485C9751BE2C47F"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Integrated major acquisition mission need statement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>integrated major acquisition mission need statement</term> means a document that—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H739E81EFD7B04F03A618758F634C62B5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identifies current and projected gaps in Coast Guard mission capabilities using mission hour
targets;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFBF3AA3E316248D6AB9E7C28F92BC13C"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">explains how each major acquisition program addresses gaps identified under subparagraph (A) if
funded at the levels provided for such program in the most recently
submitted capital investment plan; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0FB31B73D7C049DD9A688A4FDE6BDD47"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">describes the missions the Coast Guard will not be able to achieve, by fiscal year, for each gap
identified under subparagraph (A).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H199ABEC5901443C8836157A8F46A8F78"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Major acquisition program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>major acquisition program</term> has the meaning given that term in section 569a(e).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB97C20E89B70416B910FEA81E3552055"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Capital investment plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>capital investment plan</term> means the plan required under section 663(a)(1).</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB2FCEABDC7394DDBAFBCA7E7BE342B61"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/15">chapter 15</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking the item
relating to section 569 and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9E8F09FDAED74CEDA8B513916284373B" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">569. Mission need statement.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3A8844D4A0264CA493E7DCFFBC486226" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>216.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transmission of annual Coast Guard authorization request</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9D7C11656E9E404392745E58E5F62560"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title 14, United States Code, as amended by this Act, is further amended by inserting after section
662 the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA3092B1975144A1FB26B43D225EDEA55" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H03E96FF3F18E45E0AC7D9A26D1B713C9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>662a.<?LEXA-Enum 662a.?></enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transmission of annual Coast Guard authorization request</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBE981123180C404B8C7F712339A1533F"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date on which the President submits to Congress a budget for a
fiscal year pursuant to <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/1105">section 1105</external-xref> of title 31, the Secretary shall
submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House
of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation of the Senate a Coast Guard authorization request with
respect to such fiscal year.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAA609A182D204DCCAD5BF67BEB1ACA63"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard authorization request defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term <term>Coast Guard authorization request</term> means a proposal for legislation that, with respect to the Coast Guard for the relevant fiscal
year—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4BF5F4859C79421EACB993937B6C54C0"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">recommends end strengths for personnel for that fiscal year, as described in section 661;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H41751999819C497B8507338464E18A8F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">recommends authorizations of appropriations for that fiscal year, including with respect to matters
described in section 662; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBC8B86F1040446C5AFDA7AFDD40CDE44"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">addresses any other matter that the Secretary determines is appropriate for inclusion in a Coast
Guard authorization bill.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC857AA28A6F146AD998EE839CCAE702C"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/17">chapter 17</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, as amended by this Act, is further
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 662 the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H49A0B5E68C8D48D6A8B6E14E46898290" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">662a. Transmission of annual Coast Guard authorization request.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB42E169A731D4DF1B8017F8363DCEADF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>217.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Inventory of real property</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H58B0DEDAE5244A95838E1D35C059FA09"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/17">Chapter 17</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE6046DFED38A48688A9045ED04FF35D3" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF2B1DDC2A12B4FE591EB421EFDE05027" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>679.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Inventory of real property</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBAAC2AAD90484D5186BCB17F83C6C80F"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than September 30, 2015, the Commandant shall establish an inventory of all real
property, including submerged lands, under the control of the Coast Guard,
which shall include—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H81A97B057E074DECB060020A57F16A29"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the size, the location, and any other appropriate description of each unit of such property;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3C4380AC18814CFB9C66BB372B4A1809"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an assessment of the physical condition of each unit of such property, excluding lands;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3DF02C76EA0E4720B20FBA0D562E9A5C"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a determination of whether each unit of such property should be—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCFB94D8BCA7D409982EF3E22DC5DAD68"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">retained to fulfill a current or projected Coast Guard mission requirement; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB5399928F1FF49059E9306A8C21C3F7A"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subject to divestiture; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF406BF1F10084185AA36A5FE43C52160"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">other information the Commandant considers appropriate.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF4A9D77377C348B3B18C93CB38C63812"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Inventory maintenance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant shall—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H47B59529F5DD42269C74FE70672720B8"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">maintain the inventory required under subsection (a) on an ongoing basis; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE9BC022332B6475E8CA8A50D65955D2D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">update information on each unit of real property included in such inventory not later than 30 days
after any change relating to the control of such property.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9D9D0B482A99414FB73FC7E746806F4E"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Recommendations to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than March 30, 2016, and every 5 years thereafter, the Commandant shall submit to the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
of the Senate a report that includes—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7636077F12FF4C4089DA42F6B7D81025"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a list of all real property under the control of the Coast Guard and the location of such property
by property type;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H32177114EBED480596D53B5F80F11321"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">recommendations for divestiture with respect to any units of such property; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0219BF9AE3994570A967F2D80678FA8A"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">recommendations for consolidating any units of such property, including—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1091EC809839488087F90DB53316A683"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an estimate of the costs or savings associated with each recommended consolidation; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCF2620C4E8194A138B8F9DFC1935B9E1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a discussion of the impact that such consolidation would have on Coast Guard mission effectiveness.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA0099DEE368F499FA111400E9DABA291"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for such chapter, as amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the
following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA43C1F5C44C846E5868FEE13D0F1F564" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">679. Inventory of real property.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H06248018D1804B68BEF2D792307D03BE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>218.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Retired service members and dependents serving on advisory committees</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H35496B5279264CBF9CD7B93489CC7164"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/17">Chapter 17</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, as amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at
the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2FBE33547F7B4D0E96D1020874B6023E" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0A5045461D4F41AEACDA0CBC466AA352" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>680.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Retired service members and dependents serving on advisory committees</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">A committee that—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5869D373F4CC427FB939721F67E051A4"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">advises or assists the Coast Guard with respect to a function that affects a member of the Coast
Guard or a dependent of such a member; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8FC569F5DC254FA688FAA358CCB1631C"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes in its membership a retired Coast Guard member or a dependent of such a retired member;</text></paragraph></section><quoted-block-continuation-text quoted-block-continuation-text-level="subsection">shall not be considered an advisory committee under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C.
App.) solely because of such membership.</quoted-block-continuation-text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB6FECCE30B754C0494275F1636EA441A"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for such chapter, as amended by this Act, is further amended by inserting after the
item relating to section 679 the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA85FF193AED34E0ABC9148BE184E7D1F" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">680. Retired service members and dependents serving on advisory committees.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H69095ED8AE634DB3AB17E940E3521765" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>219.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Active duty for emergency augmentation of regular forces</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/712">Section 712(a)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>not more than 60 days in any 4-month period and</quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE8CA51E9EE7845A9A8ADDFD954EAC0F6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>220.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Acquisition workforce expedited hiring authority</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 404(b) of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/281">Public Law 111–281</external-xref>; 124 Stat. 2951) is
amended by striking <quote>2015</quote> and inserting <quote>2017</quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H07577191BCFF45B2A66619B85857ABA5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>221.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard administrative savings</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H56A2423DB1524E338DF722A7AC537A1A"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Elimination of outdated and duplicative reports</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9CAD8301E2F74A7B871CAA5B2D4DE34E"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Marine industry training</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/59">Section 59</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE93E22FE500F4A42BD73C371096F4DEE"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>(a) <header-in-text level="subsection" style="USC">In general</header-in-text>.—The Commandant</quote> and inserting <quote>The Commandant</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H129B2BB665C84F989A0799342E5A87C8"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsection (b).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H49897F1ECF8647B5AAA65B17A7308626"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operations and expenditures</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/651">Section 651</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, and the item relating to such section in the analysis
for chapter 17 of such title, are repealed.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5B5993BE530442FFBFB1C8ECE9CE76EE"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Drug interdiction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 103 of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/89">14 U.S.C. 89</external-xref> note), and the item relating
to that section in the table of contents in section 2 of that Act, are
repealed.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2AEBF16B0779406EA65BA42A3251A201"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National defense</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 426 of the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/2">14 U.S.C. 2</external-xref> note), and the item
relating to that section in the table of contents in section 1(b) of that
Act, are repealed.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H67D54BA3A05B407FB1C0D0E66CB82956"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Living marine resources</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 4(b) of the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2010 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1828">16 U.S.C. 1828</external-xref> note) is amended
by adding at the end the following: “No report shall be required under
this subsection, including that no report shall be required under section
224 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2004 or section
804 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2006, for fiscal
years beginning after fiscal year 2014.”.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HED589791079142458F1A94D2AEBEADF5"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consolidation and reform of reporting requirements</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H67796D3A9B4D4853B1624F1DD66359B4"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Marine safety</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9235822B28944C489F47E8EEC6818ACF"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/2116">Section 2116(d)(2)(B)</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4D1102E2B00E4F6DBEEA7451E3F3F850" style="OLC"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3552F64E4FC246A3931365335F1B673C"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">on the program’s mission performance in achieving numerical measurable goals established under
subsection (b), including—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H561A18630C32401DB25D265C1023E477"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of civilian and military Coast Guard personnel assigned to marine safety positions; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF7EDB43303D841A3889B4C1566223669"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an identification of marine safety positions that are understaffed to meet the workload required to
accomplish each activity included in the strategy and plans under
subsection (a); and</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4C51A61EC7304995B63FCD1F71D9F33E"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/57">Section 57</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, as amended by this Act, is further amended—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H182FC05ED98A4536822AD75F3D9849FA"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsection (e); and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3BED0390AB7B486284FE7AC5167708D6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (f), (g), and (h) as subsections (e), (f), and (g) respectively.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H718C7C565EEA4167AAE8C5A6505A4525"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minor construction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/656">Section 656(d)(2)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4D787768EC484352B4A539B156156140" style="USC"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H59D90AA524B240E786EE7CE6FCEA8DEA"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than the date on which the President submits to Congress a budget under section 1105 of
title 31 each year, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report
describing each project carried out under paragraph (1), in the most
recently concluded fiscal year, for which the amount expended under such
paragraph for such project was more than $1,000,000. If no such project
was carried out during a fiscal year, no report under this paragraph shall
be required with respect to that fiscal year.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB18BF1B65AFE4413AF25BBFF1B39BF68" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>222.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical corrections to title 14</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title 14, United States Code, as amended by this Act, is further amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H78F9BC7DF2C047B8A122126E027310EF"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 93(b)(1) by striking <quote>Notwithstanding subsection (a)(14)</quote> and inserting <quote>Notwithstanding subsection (a)(13)</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9191FD90D7E949DCB0DA78B72DA437BE"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 197(b) by striking <quote>of Homeland Security</quote>.</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H995A710218534A8D812706C110941651" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>223.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Multiyear procurement authority for Offshore Patrol Cutters</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In fiscal year 2015 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary of the department in which the
Coast Guard is operating may enter into, in accordance with section 2306b
of title 10, United States Code, multiyear contracts for the procurement
of Offshore Patrol Cutters and associated equipment.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE9F56D425CC947CD8E672AB0D16226A8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>224.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maintaining Medium Endurance Cutter mission capability</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the department in
which the Coast Guard is operating shall submit to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report
that includes—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEDB78D390A2A4B8AB7872ACBC2405330"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a schedule and plan for decommissioning, not later than September 30, 2029, each of the 210-foot,
Reliance-Class Cutters operated by the Coast Guard on the date of
enactment of this Act;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H066415799F3D4B64A08885E0832E1704"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a schedule and plan for enhancing the maintenance or extending the service life of each of the
270-foot, Famous-Class Cutters operated by the Coast Guard on the date of
enactment of this Act—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC3054261170647789F5D37ED052FF2DB"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to maintain the capability of the Coast Guard to carry out sea-going missions with respect to such
Cutters at the level of capability existing on September 30, 2013; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7CA63651E4974F6786E6F75F0DE0863C"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on the date on which the
final Offshore Patrol Cutter is scheduled to be commissioned under
paragraph (4);</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8D07DE10782A45B1AD50E2BFE48806A2"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an identification of the number of Offshore Patrol Cutters capable of sea state 5 operations that,
if 8 National Security Cutters are commissioned, are necessary to return
the sea state 5 operating capability of the Coast Guard to the level of
capability that existed prior to the decommissioning of the first High
Endurance Cutter in fiscal year 2011;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H62A6AFFDB3D5446E9B2050E9C531BD21"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a schedule and plan for commissioning the number of Offshore Patrol Cutters identified under
paragraph (3); and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA622613B561644CAB4505F312F4B0C3D"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a schedule and plan for commissioning, not later than September 30, 2034, a number of Offshore
Patrol Cutters not capable of sea state 5 operations that is equal to—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB1C6EE3346004503A013825B4DE6BEFA"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">25; less</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC1C37CD7594C41C6B80226FBEB5D3FD2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of Offshore Patrol Cutters identified under paragraph (3).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H28A0CF322B6F46C9A5FCD412B6B566CF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>225.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Aviation capability</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id504485D27F304B51A3929CDDC3C467D9"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD3CFC3B056B84F9ABAC306EAB8F2A55A"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">request and accept through a direct military-to-military transfer under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/10/2571">section 2571</external-xref> of title 10,
United States Code, such H–60 helicopters as may be necessary to establish
a year-round operational capability in the Coast Guard’s Ninth District;
and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6C1673644688454CAF5F129BC5D3B29B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">use funds provided under section 101 of this Act to convert such helicopters to Coast Guard MH–60T
configuration.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id75775E9EEEF741B49742B9A142DC45C7"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prohibition</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id473780EADC8444298A6C2C33D0CB2FBC"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Coast Guard may not—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAB0013DA7DE24C50B0F79805E0C557BF"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">close a Coast Guard air facility that was in operation on November 30, 2014; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1DDF2AF6601A4F159E7F761CB9DA09BB"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">retire, transfer, relocate, or deploy an aviation asset from an air facility described in
subparagraph
(A) for the purpose of closing such facility.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE4F572EDDC7D4C83913BAA004A71CF40"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sunset</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This subsection is repealed effective January 1, 2016.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0C44DED72FD84F658B5EA3197F3627C5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>226.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Gaps in writings on Coast Guard history</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commandant of the Coast Guard
shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of
the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the
House of Representatives a report on any gaps that exist in writings on
the history of the Coast Guard. The report shall address, at a minimum,
operations, broad topics, and biographies with respect to the Coast Guard.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H825DFED2C50946D4A7BF3F7D89C6F14A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>227.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Officer evaluation reports</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA02583E87C1A4D94A8DF6D296CC125CA"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Assessment required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commandant of the Coast Guard
shall provide to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of
the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the
House of Representatives a written assessment of the Coast Guard’s officer
evaluation reporting system.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA7D6D79479154E0DAE347459FD6D7E42"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Contents of assessment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The assessment required under subsection (a) shall include, at a minimum, an analysis of—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H06F0821127A04113A4CC671894D2EC19"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the extent to which the Coast Guard’s officer evaluation reports differ in length, form, and
content from the officer fitness reports used by the Navy and other
branches of the Armed Forces;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H95026E02BF634389B837C4E532D6BFBA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the extent to which differences determined pursuant to paragraph (1) are the result of inherent
differences between—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD9F99E69E9794C208A057F61B6E2896C"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Coast Guard and the Navy; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFF2FB3B4395B4D91BED7D7DEFD08E77F"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Coast Guard and other branches of the Armed Forces;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8419F5EFEC8F45CBA20CF09E7AF9907D"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the feasibility of more closely aligning and conforming the Coast Guard’s officer evaluation
reports with the officer fitness reports of the Navy and other branches of
the Armed Forces; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H54186E1020D9479880AF4ED54B59EBCF"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the costs and benefits of the alignment and conformity described in paragraph (3), including with
respect to—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H88FA959BCB5943E488BB87F2980029D3"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard administrative efficiency;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H37B54E2F552D4D0CB18B3A4230773B09"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fairness and equity for Coast Guard officers; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF8CDCF9DD65A4D22A671120BE66273D7"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">carrying out the Coast Guard’s statutory mission of defense readiness, including when operating as
a service in the Navy.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1C5FE41BD1D442B788C0BEA21EC3BC00" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>228.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Improved safety information for vessels</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the department in
which the Coast Guard is operating shall establish a process that allows
an operator of a marine exchange or other non-Federal vessel traffic
information service to use the automatic identification system to transmit
weather, ice, and other important navigation safety information to
vessels.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7A54F291C16B419FAAEFCDB33A9D6D59" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>229.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">E–LORAN</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H494732AD8FBA495694402334BDE69FCE"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may not carry out activities
related to the dismantling or disposal of infrastructure that supported
the former LORAN system until the later of—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9A8A29D415954CA6B7C1B2ED2598C093"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act; or</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAB9D5C62E4F04F3088674D87EB75BE27"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the date on which the Secretary provides to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation of the Senate notice of a determination by the Secretary
that such infrastructure is not required to provide a positioning,
navigation, and timing system to provide redundant capability in the event
GPS signals are disrupted.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H476DDF2A37E449A3A1F2087ABEC2505B"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exception</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) does not apply to activities necessary for the safety of human life.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD8BDC0401B9A4DED9CBC7D6D44026EE5"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agreements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements, contracts, and other agreements with Federal
entities and other public or private entities, including academic
entities, to develop a positioning, navigation, and timing system,
including an enhanced LORAN system, to provide redundant capability in the
event GPS signals are disrupted.</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEDA583D10CD84C63A0D4E530A01EA448" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>230.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Analysis of resource deficiencies with respect to maritime border security</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H31E7E68858864D07B67917DE6ED76FB8"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commandant of the Coast Guard
shall provide to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of
the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives a report
describing any Coast Guard resource deficiencies related to—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF58886C9B8C245C0BEAB23689C62AD35"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">securing maritime borders with respect to the Great Lakes and the coastal areas of the Southeastern
and Southwestern United States, including with respect to Florida,
California, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB5C6DE6849724BA49E53212204D40835"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">patrolling and monitoring maritime approaches to the areas described in paragraph (1); and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H18688057C9EE42BCA9CDCC7475F9362B"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">patrolling and monitoring relevant portions of the Western Hemisphere Drug Transit Zone.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEF067E396D1E4C6B92E0CE51A8D04F1B"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Scope</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In preparing the report under subsection (a), the Commandant shall consider, at a minimum—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA637428A15FC47E4905BD04CDA990F67"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Coast Guard’s statutory missions with respect to migrant interdiction, drug interdiction,
defense readiness, living marine resources, and ports, waterways, and
coastal security;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H567B95793E924D4A87D43690AF7FF0A8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether Coast Guard missions are being executed to meet national performance targets set under the
National Drug Control Strategy;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H66975CEA12BD4385AFFE19C7D287527D"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number and types of cutters and other vessels required to effectively execute Coast Guard
missions;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAC167821CB194610A77F6843F607074B"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number and types of aircraft, including unmanned aircraft, required to effectively execute
Coast Guard missions;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H93D697C180B349AE85D3E1D59E96946B"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of assets that require upgraded sensor and communications systems to effectively execute
Coast Guard missions;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6B491D4DD82C4C5F860582996E3CA969"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Deployable Specialized Forces required to effectively execute Coast Guard missions; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3AE8AA934B6448D2B6C726C4BBBEE55F"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether additional shoreside facilities are required to accommodate Coast Guard personnel and
assets in support of Coast Guard missions.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H997E0B5947074EC6AB7573DACA2E3F6A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>231.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Modernization of National Distress and Response System</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA79064791DCD4BE2A0D8849F49DBDC44"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the department in
which the Coast Guard is operating shall submit to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report
on the implementation of the Rescue 21 project in Alaska and in Coast
Guard sectors Upper Mississippi River, Lower Mississippi River, and Ohio
River Valley.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H15352839BA5D422C9E9AED8BBBCD6B98"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The report required under subsection (a) shall—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9BCB989A46D24C87A3C9D2682666BB48"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">describe what improvements are being made to the distress response system in the areas specified in
subsection (a), including information on which areas will receive digital
selective calling and direction finding capability;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H04736A00FC594AB3AA51AECDDBB71713"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">describe the impediments to installing digital selective calling and direction finding capability
in areas where such technology will not be installed;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H21B611492E1C465C97BCB5465EB180F9"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identify locations in the areas specified in subsection (a) where communication gaps will continue
to present a risk to mariners after completion of the Rescue 21 project;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H79D65B240E8D4282800B488FE68D474A"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include a list of all reported marine accidents, casualties, and fatalities occurring in the
locations identified under paragraph (3) since 1990; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8BCA1E7262B74408BAB3F22F10EBA311"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide an estimate of the costs associated with installing the technology necessary to close
communication gaps in the locations identified under paragraph (3).</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4177B9A7D27641F1AF13AF9722176FCC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>232.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report reconciling maintenance and operational priorities on the Missouri River</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commandant of the Coast Guard
shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of
the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the
House of Representatives a report that outlines a course of action to
reconcile general maintenance priorities for cutters with operational
priorities on the Missouri River.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBF1F0097B51741C88A618811742B75FA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>233.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maritime Search and Rescue Assistance Policy assessment</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H222C369B1A344257B475A0DF8C2285E2"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall assess the Maritime Search and Rescue Assistance Policy as
it relates to State and local responders.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H765431CA9819437CAFAC49CBA16717A0"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Scope</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The assessment under subsection (a) shall consider, at a minimum—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H67F35D57FDC64BECADB6635F6B16269E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the extent to which Coast Guard search and rescue coordinators have entered into domestic search
and rescue agreements with State and local responders under the National
Search and Rescue Plan;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H19421847B2BD4DA9877D62BBC7A7EDA6"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the domestic search and rescue agreements include the Maritime Search and Rescue Assistance
Policy; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H265C48968AFC4CC2B3485E94A433B740"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the extent to which Coast Guard sectors coordinate with 911 emergency centers, including ensuring
the dissemination of appropriate maritime distress check-sheets.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H00BEBD3212054039973B4DB6B8EE12D4"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commandant of the Coast Guard
shall submit a report on the assessment under subsection (a) to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of
Representatives.</text></subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Shipping and Navigation</header><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1D7D5CE9E38941B4B3DCC32C9D1DCE96" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Repeal</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/46/555">Chapter 555</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD3D99AE42E2F4E74AB1EA216F2B4B464"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by repealing section 55501;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5A5366826F574403A944B66FBB7295B0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating section 55502 as section 55501; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB72C1DF2A2924F408FF676AB5FC37544"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the analysis by striking the items relating to sections 55501 and 55502 and inserting the
following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H26A6DD7681BD4353844BC47F486FE36E" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">55501. United States Committee on the Marine Transportation System.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5FD75609EE154EE4B2E9F458856E7D31" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>302.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Donation of historical property</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/51103">Section 51103</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8C5AD4EB09F84C289D680FAFF1D87A2C" style="OLC"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H001E2EA1C5FE41EBA6065252F652EF95"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Donation for historical purposes</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2BCC77FDD2374D359277C6C132C70B78"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may convey the right, title, and interest of the United States Government in any
property administered by the Maritime Administration, except real estate
or vessels, if—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAB997402FE7E47999A4E765F646B6A83"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary determines that such property is not needed by the Maritime Administration; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2AE364A8CFD145EE8FAEEE58606D5389"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the recipient—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H505F889B94114541AFF0F0E5A2389F3F"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is a nonprofit organization, a State, or a political subdivision of a State;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H23B6FBB00F7A40EF8D59E52C64B9920A"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">agrees to hold the Government harmless for any claims arising from exposure to hazardous materials,
including asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls, or lead paint, after
conveyance of the property;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H85A68613F0A3449EA0D2B9393549A3B0"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provides a description and explanation of the intended use of the property to the Secretary for
approval;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H421828B0973E46C2835B32496D4FBB33"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has provided to the Secretary proof, as determined by the Secretary, of resources sufficient to
accomplish the intended use provided under clause (iii) and to maintain
the property;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0429970FA4514CE882368F7CB2327A63"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">agrees that when the recipient no longer requires the property, the recipient shall—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBA27D22F634E4AC0B701B42F48280397"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">return the property to the Secretary, at the recipient’s expense and in the same condition as
received except for ordinary wear and tear; or</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H45C5B7F142724F77A3BF71348EDB28C5"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subject to the approval of the Secretary, retain, sell, or otherwise dispose of the property in a
manner consistent with applicable law; and</text></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7B5FE9A917E04444A3EC5B4DD43093CC"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">agrees to any additional terms the Secretary considers appropriate.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H69C0C43A00BC483AAD34BB96FA1B9672"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reversion</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall include in any conveyance under this subsection terms under which all right,
title, and interest conveyed by the Secretary shall revert to the
Government if the Secretary determines the property has been used other
than as approved by the Secretary under paragraph (1)(B)(iii).</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA439ED47AC074C20B7FE42C258724A9B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>303.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Small shipyards</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/54101">Section 54101(i)</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>2009 through 2013</quote> and inserting <quote>2015 through 2017</quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H03E6D0691C894FB1A19D6EC0FF5CFB22" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>304.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Drug testing reporting</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/7706">Section 7706</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBC8AF2D1EE47415C89FFEF85DCF3252D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by inserting <quote>an applicant for employment by a Federal agency,</quote> after <quote>Federal agency,</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC93C4F73AF7A430CA07A1FE5FD38968D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c), by—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC4EE999296E048A5A85B8D4FC90036FA"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">inserting <quote>or an applicant for employment by a Federal agency</quote> after <quote>an employee</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD2B7BBB810EF4E8FBA77C264875A8A55"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">striking <quote>the employee.</quote> and inserting <quote>the employee or the applicant.</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE09946063B1A458FA139A491265A02AB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>305.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Opportunities for sea service veterans</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF25F43DD8A9849EDA5B2F0D5940E2C8C"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Endorsements for veterans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/7101">Section 7101</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF807BFB8AC3942469D8838D70FB90294" style="OLC"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H13BB2CD0EAC34FF093A106E83E551D1A"><enum>(j)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may issue a license under this section in a class under subsection (c) to an
applicant that—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H27D64C79308849EBB80B7B669B3CF3C3"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has at least 3 months of qualifying service on vessels of the uniformed services (as that term is
defined in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/10/101">section 101(a)</external-xref> of title 10) of appropriate tonnage or
horsepower within the 7-year period immediately preceding the date of
application; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4A7B2E7817CF461090CB63EAEE76EE3B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">satisfies all other requirements for such a license.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA922D3085997469286223FB944465D50"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sea service letters</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H422D9A6C86D140D998954C44798081A1"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 427 the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H98A1580E0CBE43E6962C47473407AD2A" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8B3465801107415DAEF439E9505E1C4F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>428.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sea service letters</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H785565EE0AC941A89BCAA602D66128C4"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall provide a sea service letter to a member or former member of the Coast Guard
who—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H83F22E934D04493BBE550FA96F924B3B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">accumulated sea service on a vessel of the armed forces (as such term is defined in section 101(a)
of title 10); and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8B78353B81B1414DB9BA81ADFC0C0DB3"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">requests such letter.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEC3E13077CE74C4192EE6CF0D1A8223D"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Deadline</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after receiving a request for a sea service letter from a member or former
member of the Coast Guard under subsection (a), the Secretary shall
provide such letter to such member or former member if such member or
former member satisfies the requirement under subsection (a)(1).</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC53E22473F6F4DD09823FBF1A5C4E094"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/11">chapter 11</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item
relating to section 427 the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H722BFAAF8F034D83B5C10569B467DE93" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">428. Sea service letters.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD31BF6D1E8AC43CCBBFF4A631B30B954"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Crediting of United States Armed Forces service, training, and qualifications</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1D86E23E4A3F48C49EA1F785CF620381"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maximizing creditability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, in implementing United
States merchant mariner license, certification, and document laws and the
International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and
Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, shall maximize the extent to which
United States Armed Forces service, training, and qualifications are
creditable toward meeting the requirements of such laws and such
Convention.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H63BBC053CDBF4CBC840F64644122E368"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall notify the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
of the Senate on the steps taken to implement this subsection.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEF068E4F5EEB41BFA3A32EACC9BB0205"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Merchant Marine Post-Service Career Opportunities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commandant of the Coast Guard
shall take steps to promote better awareness, on an ongoing basis, among
Coast Guard personnel regarding post-service use of Coast Guard training,
education, and practical experience in satisfaction of requirements for
merchant mariner credentials under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/11">section 11.213</external-xref> of title 46, Code of
Federal Regulations.</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H22C3E6F26CBB49D4A0FF556305B8D14A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>306.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clarification of high-risk waters</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/55305">Section 55305(e)</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC28846700A9F4AF4AA5AF614CACD7C37"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5E099BF6B06644A39B9A4A7A6EAA3109"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>provide armed personnel aboard</quote> and inserting <quote>reimburse, subject to the availability of appropriations, the owners or operators of</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA1F1CC57AE2A45D49DE889555CE94782"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>for the cost of providing armed personnel aboard such vessels</quote> before <quote>if</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H680642F35EE548BFA70BE5B320B1C16F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCB6DE01B97874D87A6EC6B2A92FAE8A8" style="USC"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFD97EBD727F94A9CAEB4268BA5597CFA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection, the term <term>high-risk waters</term> means waters so designated by the Commandant of the Coast Guard in the maritime security directive
issued by the Commandant and in effect on the date on which an applicable
voyage begins, if the Secretary of Transportation—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H99DBCE6638AD49D4A29CFDDCBE8E0B8F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determines that an act of piracy occurred in the 12-month period preceding the date the voyage
begins; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H49A55BABAD5944FCA3C65F5AC57D6652"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in such period, issued an advisory warning that an act of piracy is possible in such waters.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9CF6724396D6436FABB69049D02849BF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>307.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical corrections</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAA4BF10DCE3E4E99AB37ED959EB8B940"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title 46</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/2116">Section 2116(b)(1)(D)</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>section 93(c)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 93(c) of title 14</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9EA85D8489634553A654AA89F334F49A"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2006</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 304(a) of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2006 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/109/241">Public Law 109–241</external-xref>; 33
U.S.C. 1503 note) is amended by inserting <quote>and from</quote> before <quote>the United States</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H46AF61C8F4D44D63AC1433E5CF50917B"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Deepwater Port Act of 1974</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 4(i) of the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1503">33 U.S.C. 1503(i)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>or that will supply</quote> after <quote>be supplied with</quote>.</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2951043EE5824436AC9328A8C5EA2C36" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>308.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the
United States shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the number
of jobs, including vessel construction and vessel operating jobs, that
would be created in the United States maritime industry each year in 2015
through 2025 if liquified natural gas exported from the United States were
required to be carried—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H448550A61CC24DBABB984F60B8FA5F87"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">before December 31, 2018, on vessels documented under the laws of the United States; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5E76C485AA8E4131B3A323C35F5F9721"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">on and after such date, on vessels documented under the laws of the United States and constructed
in the United States.</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H80C678A52B284644BD1A9A73B67969C2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>309.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fishing safety grant programs</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5AB1663DA9B74BBA8288709112EC63DD"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fishing safety training grant program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/4502">Section 4502(i)(4)</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>2010 through 2014</quote> and inserting <quote>2015 through 2017</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H51E0908BCFE04F5EA675A39D9582D79C"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fishing safety research grant program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/4502">Section 4502(j)(4)</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>2010 through 2014</quote> and inserting <quote>2015 through 2017</quote>.</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA81DE3C9D4A348C4939ABC3D5D08407B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>310.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB100329B4BB94238B1CA517D6676ECD9"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/46/81">Chapter 81</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2E942CB793454D1CBAFA8906B970925E" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H54AB308D0B7C4112A59553365499D05A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>8108.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD32578B048194ADBA94769E97A9BAEED"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall establish a Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee (in this section
referred to as <quote>the Committee</quote>). The Committee—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB5E8D868994943579FB4F33609D88B84"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall act solely in an advisory capacity to the Secretary through the Commandant of the Coast Guard
on matters relating to personnel in the United States merchant marine,
including training, qualifications, certification, documentation, and
fitness standards, and other matters as assigned by the Commandant;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9063E7FD57324930ABDE73A67A949082"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall review and comment on proposed Coast Guard regulations and policies relating to personnel in
the United States merchant marine, including training, qualifications,
certification, documentation, and fitness standards;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA6BD6A58115B42D3B9ADC1D8EFE22C81"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may be given special assignments by the Secretary and may conduct studies, inquiries, workshops,
and fact finding in consultation with individuals and groups in the
private sector and with State or local governments;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H285E7807D2C34F2F863FBED4E345DCF0"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall advise, consult with, and make recommendations reflecting its independent judgment to the
Secretary;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HED4D982BA23145ADB69C2443C018CE18"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall meet not less than twice each year; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB10616D736144110B0262613F9A56A9F"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may make available to Congress recommendations that the Committee makes to the Secretary.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD376ADAC77654C95AB16288F3595B19E"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Membership</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7BDBA07A088A41DEAC5FE09ACE85ECBE"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Committee shall consist of not more than 19 members who are appointed by and serve terms of a
duration determined by the Secretary. Before filling a position on the
Committee, the Secretary shall publish a notice in the Federal Register
soliciting nominations for membership on the Committee.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCD7D8B716B9149F0B0D1A71F81C44A48"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Required members</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (3), the Secretary shall appoint as members of the Committee—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC43B48EC62604E1E9B68B0821974CCC2"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">9 United States citizens with active licenses or certificates issued under chapter 71 or merchant
mariner documents issued under chapter 73, including—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H50812FA26B444C7F958AFF37C1330508"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">3 deck officers who represent the viewpoint of merchant marine deck officers, of whom—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD9D5BA7F48214FF7AD36D68D752FBC4A"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 shall be licensed for oceans any gross tons;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H73B39185214B4472914F3EF6896B80D5"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">1 shall be licensed for inland river route with a limited or unlimited tonnage;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0E560BE600D9494AB55F6FB5C8C266C5"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 shall have a master’s license or a master of towing vessels license;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6C319B59977A4DE5B18A711D641C8EDA"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">1 shall have significant tanker experience; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAE643D6C6077496D92861526E485D8EE"><enum>(V)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to the extent practicable—</text><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7155F83A05114E398829754423EEE583"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">1 shall represent the viewpoint of labor; and</text></item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF686860E821A4D9AA7D0943334CD25C5"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">another shall represent a management perspective;</text></item></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H79E13526222C4059A3469459E280F1C7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">3 engineering officers who represent the viewpoint of merchant marine engineering officers, of
whom—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA1F25DAF1ECC4DD68AE1B6CCFD1F1CFA"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 shall be licensed as chief engineer any horsepower;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H74C27A2B2BEB4B90B42F48516942B30D"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">1 shall be licensed as either a limited chief engineer or a designated duty engineer; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAB2787467F7A4B97AE843B80F86ABF00"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to the extent practicable—</text><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H92ECBDF67FD740F7AB085F059AD4B1F1"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">1 shall represent a labor viewpoint; and</text></item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H61C1B0DDABB84698B21F16135ED26CA8"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">another shall represent a management perspective;</text></item></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC03FEC4598C0472082DFE7792F4B4E7E"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 unlicensed seamen, of whom—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDF1833A760FD42948D341AF2656DB7D1"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">1 shall represent the viewpoint of able-bodied seamen; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5D49E746C629478BA874B0C9781AB04A"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">another shall represent the viewpoint of qualified members of the engine department; and</text></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7E0A729B306442B2A1478E13D0DEC463"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">1 pilot who represents the viewpoint of merchant marine pilots;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD7976F3EB815437CA0EE81788F084847"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">6 marine educators, including—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4B8309895C5643BB93458CF874894A5E"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">3 marine educators who represent the viewpoint of maritime academies, including—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6D90262AFBF04AF4A77635F92903FA6E"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 who represent the viewpoint of State maritime academies and are jointly recommended by such State
maritime academies; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4CA57E9ADB9448A0BC9266D7B864ED82"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">1 who represents either the viewpoint of the State maritime academies or the United States Merchant
Marine Academy; and</text></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA694CD9FF81C425DAB721227DA4E59C2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">3 marine educators who represent the viewpoint of other maritime training institutions, 1 of whom
shall represent the viewpoint of the small vessel industry;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC7C4E460085346A18BEFC5EAD3EA4AAA"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 individuals who represent the viewpoint of shipping companies employed in ship operation
management; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC0CAABBB8137438A8F0CE34E11110EAA"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 members who are appointed from the general public.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB1C80BC6172C4587A5F5C03D80FFB019"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consultation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall consult with the Secretary of Transportation in making an appointment under
paragraph (2)(B)(i)(II).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H08E3CB663DA946FD938F7C5FD70CB955"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chairman and Vice Chairman</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall designate one member of the Committee as the Chairman and one member of the
Committee as the Vice Chairman. The Vice Chairman shall act as Chairman in
the absence or incapacity of the Chairman, or in the event of a vacancy in
the office of the Chairman.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA2D89EEE86CF4A58AECA8397DEFE5544"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subcommittees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Committee may establish and disestablish subcommittees and working groups for any purpose
consistent with this section, subject to conditions imposed by the
Committee. Members of the Committee and additional persons drawn from the
general public may be assigned to such subcommittees and working groups.
Only Committee members may chair subcommittee or working groups.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3F4537FFA0664C2A9C187B310AED3968"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Termination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Committee shall terminate on September 30, 2020.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H54846B565C8644A28C6703F28D11F8C5"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9F0720EB4C4046E98FC5527DD1EE81E3" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">8108. Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD01D1BCCCB484F8A93016640AB580D18" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>311.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Travel and subsistence</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H43493FD33DA14CE18200CE44286122B3"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title 46, United States Code</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/2110">Section 2110</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFBE57838DAAA4C24A1334D78B7CD8FCB"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H55C0DCB7E16E4705AD421B7399A5CB9E" style="OLC"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H625486D5E44E4E9FB7C14345A9C744C9"><enum>(b)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H2634643FE6874C57BCC5F68DACA69444"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to the collection of fees and charges established under subsection (a), in providing a
service or thing of value under this subtitle the Secretary may accept
in-kind transportation, travel, and subsistence.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H734289C1812641619B5CF340BFDE9DE8" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The value of in-kind transportation, travel, and subsistence accepted under this paragraph may not
exceed applicable per diem rates set forth in regulations prescribed under
<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/37/464">section 464</external-xref> of title 37.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0C35B64C34A246CD8D0CD5C6A577C5E8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c), by striking <quote>subsections (a) and (b),</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection (a),</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2C3A52618169447A82E96AD1B937B7A3"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title 14, United States Code</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/664">Section 664</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by redesignating subsections (e) though (g)
as subsections (f) through (h), respectively, and by inserting after
subsection (d) the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H42B3B416AFCC4C128C0EFACBA11A730B" style="OLC"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1BD4124361EB435CA9C4F2802C76361E"><enum>(e)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H9D0572F3A30B42A081F51119B024E02D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to the collection of fees and charges established under this section, in the provision
of a service or thing of value by the Coast Guard the Secretary may accept
in-kind transportation, travel, and subsistence.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8DAA94F36A4543819C739899246486B8" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The value of in-kind transportation, travel, and subsistence accepted under this paragraph may not
exceed applicable per diem rates set forth in regulations prescribed under
<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/37/464">section 464</external-xref> of title 37.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H47C85456E49D4A91A7EB04A10B74839F"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating may not accept in-kind
transportation, travel, or subsistence under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/664">section 664(e)</external-xref> of title 14,
United States Code, or <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/2110">section 2110(d)(4)</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code,
as amended by this section, until the Commandant of the Coast Guard—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H193CD97936A04CE2971948BF897810CF"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">amends the Standards of Ethical Conduct for members and employees of the Coast Guard to include
regulations governing the acceptance of in-kind reimbursements; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAF0FE118627F463A8BF947CCE9C326EA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">notifies the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives of the
amendments made under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H717B866DD857494FA3229F49BC5E5CA0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>312.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prompt intergovernmental notice of marine casualties</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/6101">Section 6101</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBD61B9CD58FA4179976739F76BBA876B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (b) the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H28CBA2BBF53F40C68C8B9EEDF5ED6416" style="OLC"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB0A80394C52744DC8E030A52400DD477"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notice to State and tribal governments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 24 hours after receiving a notice of a major marine casualty under this section, the
Secretary shall notify each State or federally recognized Indian tribe
that is, or may reasonably be expected to be, affected by such marine
casualty.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC051A3E34F9D4836B9B06812DF6AF1D7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (h)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDBA58A0C4526453183A7FD4038A82DE9"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>(1)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H625AAF6F87934FFBA62E61239537AFCA"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsection (h)(2) as subsection (i) of section 6101, and in such subsection—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB2C5840365D7485AA38C3E3E6F08E983"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>paragraph,</quote> and inserting <quote>section,</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE71824C5FCC744C289DCC7BC9F4B3240"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (D) as paragraphs (1) through (4); and</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB7876FADF46A4E68ACF3C52E42E9D7D1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating the last subsection as subsection (j).</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H753B3CFD3D7945868DF03BD35019B33B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>313.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Area Contingency Plans</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 311(j)(4) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1321">33 U.S.C. 1321(j)(4)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H656DD629A5FF4B6B86FC9E675A6BFC72"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>qualified personnel of Federal, State, and local agencies.</quote> and inserting “qualified—</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H56429D9D69234E6F81C150C69E7BED6A" style="OLC"><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD7BC06840A934110AC62C24B7674E529" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">personnel of Federal, State, and local agencies; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H94B2DC4AF2574B5CB385B9741C39C970" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">members of federally recognized Indian tribes, where applicable.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H35D8AA61FE964C3397AD2D46145F415D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)(ii)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC6F195DDACB94BE58E6C72B3FA53953A"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>, local, and tribal</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5095CFF65CF3483885F71BD3F4FDE5ED"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>wildlife;</quote> and inserting <quote>wildlife, including advance planning with respect to the closing and reopening of fishing areas
following a discharge;</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAFCAFF72D11C49569D0A429A9F201942"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)(iii), by striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>, local, and tribal</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H42183B90411A49CF855016CCE088102C"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE1F5C4D218A24025A06295F94B5E48D8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iv), by striking <quote>and Federal, State, and local agencies</quote> and inserting <quote>, Federal, State, and local agencies, and tribal governments</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H76240E5BBC7A4F3BA9275E38F6AFEB95"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating clauses (vii) and (viii) as clauses (viii) and (ix), respectively; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD48FF48D89AF4F20B099D72A97382073"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after clause (vi) the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H516E7B015399465499A4103D6F49E1C3" style="OLC"><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H98A8F285EA174E8B94C4B2A6E4E1EA86" indent="up1"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include a framework for advance planning and decisionmaking with respect to the closing and
reopening of fishing areas following a discharge, including protocols and
standards for the closing and reopening of fishing areas;</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H61BCCC7170E14DA9813A3DEFF43D48C0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>314.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">International ice patrol reform</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCA59A5C5235F4A329DFBCDF2F699A222"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/46/803">Chapter 803</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3DA38F423FCD473B88ADFC6B428C7AB6"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 80301, by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC2C2C981F5334D409DD299C819C01ED1" style="OLC"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA9A30A1630454C7EBB04428E7DD9D0EF"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payments received pursuant to subsection (b)(1) shall be credited to the appropriation for
operating expenses of the Coast Guard.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H15831BE299654473ADC229F0F3DEEDBA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 80302—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H888BA6B608EF49AA89E7B6C2216BC6E2"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b), by striking <quote>An ice patrol vessel</quote> and inserting <quote>The ice patrol</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4167C899F134487A83C3B6D192B15089"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c)(1), by striking <quote>An ice patrol vessel</quote> and inserting <quote>The ice patrol</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA2271D9134B54856B14368B848809C8B"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence of subsection (d), by striking <quote>vessels</quote> and inserting <quote>aircraft</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H46A30A7B379348C286DB8939574A2730"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0C5D959717DE4407814D8E5B93F5AC44" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3663FE89B7F94055B30CD49C9A52BBEA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>80304.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on ice patrol data</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding sections 80301 and 80302, data collected by an ice patrol conducted by the Coast
Guard under this chapter may not be disseminated to a vessel unless such
vessel is—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9009C42449834FB0862C47D3E9D8E86F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">documented under the laws of the United States; or</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA9EDF85BA3154CFF9903189CBBCBA304"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">documented under the laws of a foreign country that made the payment or contribution required under
section 80301(b) for the year preceding the year in which the data is
collected.</text></paragraph></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H06AF85396CD8455DB38FEEF16EBA9B13"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0591E08AE5C44F29BDB0C6A23DD042FF" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">80304. Limitation on ice patrol data.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9370BAB2097147FB8193EBC1F6B1A396"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section shall take effect on January 1, 2017.</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2318A194FA494730B48C60C41833A3D4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>315.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Offshore supply vessel third-party inspection</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/3316">Section 3316</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended by redesignating subsection (f) as
subsection (g), and by inserting after subsection (e) the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE4F2BF01D1124422AFAC2CA41C1D7269" style="OLC"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7EF8EE1D29A94FC39FD445AEA99755D3"><enum>(f)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H237068195C884157BB256FF60EB5AD89"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon request of an owner or operator of an offshore supply vessel, the Secretary shall delegate the
authorities set forth in paragraph (1) of subsection (b) with respect to
such vessel to a classification society to which a delegation is
authorized under that paragraph. A delegation by the Secretary under this
subsection shall be used for any vessel inspection and examination
function carried out by the Secretary, including the issuance of
certificates of inspection and all other related documents.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6715B9B80EB849E4B6FC848DA95678E4" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the Secretary determines that a certificate of inspection or related document issued under
authority delegated under paragraph (1) of this subsection with respect to
a vessel has reduced the operational safety of that vessel, the Secretary
may terminate the certificate or document, respectively.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H77C1A712F3A14DFFA885557BCA20DC61" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of the <short-title>Howard Coble Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014</short-title>, and for each year of the subsequent 2-year period, the Secretary shall provide to the Committee
on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a
report describing—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5997008FEBA24EFAB67120601574BBA4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of vessels for which a delegation was made under paragraph (1);</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H35328B8F2BFF4729A72620590D4C9BB3"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any savings in personnel and operational costs incurred by the Coast Guard that resulted from the
delegations; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H03633D6D7F9A4D26A5A30BFBDA03A613"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">based on measurable marine casualty and other data, any impacts of the delegations on the
operational safety of vessels for which the delegations were made, and on
the crew on those vessels.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4DA0483580D346C0A8E3298D07F5876C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>316.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Watches</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/8104">Section 8104</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H32ECD7E087F94E8AA1D0D6593E49B88D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d), by striking <quote>coal passers, firemen, oilers, and water tenders</quote> and inserting <quote>and oilers</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF9D07F08544842CEB16F91E56D927D9A"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (g)(1), by striking <quote>(except the coal passers, firemen, oilers, and water tenders)</quote>.</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H83945DAA10A04C3589EA1D0CA400D1F5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>317.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard response plan requirements</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF08E53185269416BB3D0B86018AE30AE"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Vessel response plan contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall require that each
vessel response plan prepared for a mobile offshore drilling unit includes
information from the facility response plan prepared for the mobile
offshore drilling unit regarding the planned response to a worst case
discharge, and to a threat of such a discharge.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5477CD8B4B534A94864627A5D7FD2874"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H88E3762B2CFF41C3B295E2F7DE5172CC"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mobile offshore drilling unit</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>mobile offshore drilling unit</quote> has the meaning given that term in section 1001 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2701">33 U.S.C. 2701</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3B6D3BC0268D4029B288247E0985A850"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Response plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>response plan</quote> means a response plan prepared under section 311(j) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
U.S.C. 1321(j)).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8D5D4C9BA16949A28D1E2F3187AD3DAE"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Worst case discharge</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>worst case discharge</quote> has the meaning given that term under section 311(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act
(<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1321">33 U.S.C. 1321(a)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4CF4CBE16BC64BDD93AFD228AC3F7FE5"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rule of construction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the Coast Guard to review or approve a
facility response plan for a mobile offshore drilling unit.</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9142B9A8B38A4787B7261C92CCC3439E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>318.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5002(k)(3) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2732">33 U.S.C. 2732(k)(3)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>not more than $1,000,000</quote> and inserting <quote>not less than $1,400,000</quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8526F10E9B804A15B7E61CC93A8A15DF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>319.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Uninspected passenger vessels in the United States Virgin Islands</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H69C89227A44042DE8CEE6925516FD50E"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In General</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/4105">Section 4105</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE41979D35B794DABA61A4F5A152B21F5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF5026EFF9D1D43E0814A3016A3122A5D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (a) the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2196D455252A464F982C072F1BEB780E" style="OLC"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4B5AF332E89D42A69767C89438022537"><enum>(b)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H8F0FECE9D0044297B10931C616FBABAB"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In applying this title with respect to an uninspected vessel of less than 24 meters overall in
length that carries passengers to or from a port in the United States
Virgin Islands, the Secretary shall substitute <quote>12 passengers</quote> for <quote>6 passengers</quote> each place it appears in section 2101(42) if the Secretary determines that the vessel complies
with, as applicable to the vessel—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5A97CE1CB3A64E1284631A060788F16A"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Code of Practice for the Safety of Small Commercial Motor Vessels (commonly referred to as the <quote>Yellow Code</quote>), as published by the U.K. Maritime and Coastguard Agency and in effect on January 1, 2014; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2632591027CC400C8B912AEEC8732A3B"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Code of Practice for the Safety of Small Commercial Sailing Vessels (commonly referred to as
the <quote>Blue Code</quote>), as published by such agency and in effect on such date.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC73F652B274C4D8ABCCE6A0F59A8F06D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the Secretary establishes standards to carry out this subsection—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD679E9E15A754626A40918A386144311"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such standards shall be identical to those established in the Codes of Practice referred to in
paragraph (1); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF5C4FD90A41B4C7F886CBF4677445981"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">on any dates before the date on which such standards are in effect, the Codes of Practice referred
to in paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to the vessels referred to in
paragraph (1).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H40149BC81509470BBBD328416D2449A5"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical correction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/4105">Section 4105(c)</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, as redesignated by subsection (a)(1) of this
section, is amended by striking <quote>Within twenty-four months of the date of enactment of this subsection, the</quote> and inserting <quote>The</quote>.</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF1F4AA4DBE2C479AA7ED32B35C91D0E3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>320.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Treatment of abandoned seafarers</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H854AA7C958B543B592420444311FBCA2"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/46/111">Chapter 111</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H25E5A629D34745B0A5BF9881A95B4A71" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H733050FC4E1E4C5F9B946B78A98774E3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>11113.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Treatment of abandoned seafarers</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF3874F4EE2004AC48B4FD3EE0F165004"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Abandoned Seafarers Fund</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H06FF7C7188DD4C6293C1B674DAAD99B1"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is established in the Treasury a separate account to be known as the Abandoned Seafarers
Fund.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H19654BC37A1D48978924901E5596F15A"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorized uses</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts in the Fund may be appropriated to the Secretary for use—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3B338005D7904D8EB7E253F546135EAC"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to pay necessary support of a seafarer—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD4B9649AF69C412AA40964EDB9D8BB88"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">who—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0578F6A212AB4558A13D85643F19C63C"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">was paroled into the United States under section 212(d)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5)</external-xref>), or for whom the Secretary has requested parole
under such section; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7C979D78E7E740F8BC465C5C4A3CE957"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is involved in an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is
related to the administration or enforcement of law by the Coast Guard; or</text></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H90637186092D442A8C0A7A5E935E16BD"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">who—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H03D7628BA34F4E97AFA959C44578D324"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is physically present in the United States;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6AF006D7E08F4A5CA92863468B6EFFBA"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary determines was abandoned in the United States; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC67D0CFAFE1546818592AA704370C992"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has not applied for asylum under the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.</external-xref>); and</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFA1EA325CD6E4FE9824461B349772BA2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to reimburse a vessel owner or operator for the costs of necessary support of a seafarer who has
been paroled into the United States to facilitate an investigation,
reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is related to
the administration or enforcement of law by the Coast Guard, if—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7549ACC2B10C4252B2248FB8E8C11B1F"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the vessel owner or operator is not convicted of a criminal offense related to such matter; or</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6217D9A197F8457D85F5EE9BA3EF5955"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary determines that reimbursement is appropriate.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3CF72964D254417C95A5D454D6A6CA3E"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Crediting of amounts to fund</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H97F8697CC8944A99AA76E5364EEC8585"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subparagraph (B), there shall be credited to the Fund the following:</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1807878CEEDA4445A6DF86B5924697C7"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Penalties deposited in the Fund under section 9 of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (33
U.S.C. 1908).</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H96ED5E093C9F40ECB1C281A5DA54D26C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts reimbursed or recovered under subsection (c).</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9948829323174A0C8D6FD96B6A395FA4"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts may be credited to the Fund under subparagraph (A) only if the unobligated balance of the
Fund is less than $5,000,000.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5A40DC064DE746E78A2AC14354BF3924"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On the date on which the President submits each budget for a fiscal year pursuant to section 1105
of title 31, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Transportation
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report that
describes—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H464EE13B23264432B0A14C770DB39751"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amounts credited to the Fund under paragraph (2) for the preceding fiscal year; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF329F8A3F0C74107ABBEA04AF354E223"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">amounts in the Fund that were expended for the preceding fiscal year.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7AD2FCD0EC044DEC9ADAA0731FB23BBD"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this section shall be construed—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H87643B2D66854D18A5561323836993EA"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to create a private right of action or any other right, benefit, or entitlement to necessary
support for any person; or</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3C67CA60B7424EDBB29E9E1EC3906C91"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to compel the Secretary to pay or reimburse the cost of necessary support.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H238E069702284BA79B05B53424F8CEBD"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reimbursement; recovery</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H197E02B4ABF641A9B185C138763ED5A8"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A vessel owner or operator shall reimburse the Fund an amount equal to the total amount paid from
the Fund for necessary support of a seafarer, if—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2C6A6EB928FF43B49C21CAF051EDB118"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the vessel owner or operator—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBBA35342D0A94D859FCDC8A36139137D"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">during the course of an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter
under this Act that the Coast Guard referred to a United States attorney
or the Attorney General, fails to provide necessary support of a seafarer
who was paroled into the United States to facilitate the investigation,
reporting, documentation, or adjudication; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2EAE42E19BAF4F4D9023B104CD4162EF"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subsequently is—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H084EAD64EE4E4F74AABA9655636A6E68"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">convicted of a criminal offense related to such matter; or</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5A4696DF6894464A89499C035936CF3A"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">required to reimburse the Fund pursuant to a court order or negotiated settlement related to such
matter; or</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFE221D8F3D0042CBB3911227D5D28D23"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the vessel owner or operator abandons a seafarer in the United States, as determined by the
Secretary based on substantial evidence.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB7AFFF7B8C3644E098A882D77D465202"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enforcement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a vessel owner or operator fails to reimburse the Fund under paragraph (1) within 60 days after
receiving a written, itemized description of reimbursable expenses and a
demand for payment, the Secretary may—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD6BF414036764FCDA54F81E51B97C7F6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">proceed in rem against the vessel on which the seafarer served in the Federal district court for
the district in which the vessel is found; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC36AF5C5ED8C42AC9A5CE5478FB49D7B"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">withhold or revoke the clearance required under section 60105 for the vessel and any other vessel
operated by the same operator (as that term is defined in section 2(9)(a)
of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (33 U.S.C. 1901(9)(a)) as the
vessel on which the seafarer served.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H381F09B623E04692820F7771ADEE904E"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Obtaining clearance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A vessel may obtain clearance from the Secretary after it is withheld or revoked under paragraph
(2)(B) if the vessel owner or operator—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HADB6C736208F481DB388C2815BEE04F9"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reimburses the Fund the amount required under paragraph (1); or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1E592215B52247BDB463ECFD7288F1E9"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provides a bond, or other evidence of financial responsibility, sufficient to meet the amount
required to be reimbursed under paragraph (1).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H59AEF7BFEEE840A89E51476A084964A0"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notification required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall notify the vessel at least 72 hours before taking any action under paragraph
(2)(B).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2274474917D44DA5B47CF66353D86067"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6896A36FCB444DED9A28938DDC461288"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Abandons; abandoned</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each of the terms <quote>abandons</quote> and <quote>abandoned</quote> means—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H048C84B07EA943D5949DA6622BCEA686"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a vessel owner’s or operator’s unilateral severance of ties with a seafarer; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE9ADC526D1AC449B930D8883EDBD596C"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a vessel owner’s or operator’s failure to provide necessary support of a seafarer.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE95EDCA74880403F951774EB15B92D00"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fund</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>Fund</quote> means the Abandoned Seafarers Fund established under this section.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H74D8BB19A7EA4E29BE8ED5F1876193D5"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Necessary support</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>necessary support</quote> means normal wages and expenses the Secretary considers reasonable for lodging, subsistence,
clothing, medical care (including hospitalization), repatriation, and any
other support the Secretary considers to be appropriate.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC5B8025E24FA4E0A9F8CA0B20957E234"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Seafarer</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>seafarer</quote> means an alien crew member who is employed or engaged in any capacity on board a vessel subject to
the jurisdiction of the United States.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE5AD14413F8C425584EFFD827F5D2100"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States</quote> has the meaning given that term in section 70502(c), except that it does not include a vessel that
is—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD962729AB89F41378EE2E52E83007DBD"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">owned, or operated under a bareboat charter, by the United States, a State or political subdivision
thereof, or a foreign nation; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF55E06BC0097489FB4C08ECA397A1EF7"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not engaged in commerce.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFF8FE4CA2D104E4E874084F4C9443C88"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H87808F6F18E44ABD816773749B15FED4" style="OLC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">11113. Treatment of abandoned seafarers.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCF3FACC848F84A34A7DE844DDDFA3059"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9 of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1908">33 U.S.C. 1908</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the
end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H117494BEA75D4AF4A81CB4ABBEFFC19D" style="OLC"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H93D976714B674896ADB5417C489D1E61"><enum>(g)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any penalty collected under subsection (a) or (b) that is not paid under that subsection to the
person giving information leading to the conviction or assessment of such
penalties shall be deposited in the Abandoned Seafarers Fund established
under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/11113">section 11113</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD3084095764440DCB6E7DE0B31E125A7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>321.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Website</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEEC226542EDB4382B206BE1FAB9B8DDB"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports to Secretary of Transportation; incidents and details</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/3507">Section 3507(g)(3)(A)</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD1987AA614964B4AB6338B4426F62A69"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (ii) by striking <quote>the incident to an Internet based portal maintained by the Secretary</quote> and inserting <quote>each incident specified in clause (i) to the Internet website maintained by the Secretary of
Transportation under paragraph (4)(A)</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE03737AA9D134BF7808B2C1740E0740E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iii) by striking <quote>based portal maintained by the Secretary</quote> and inserting <quote>website maintained by the Secretary of Transportation under paragraph (4)(A)</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF707270843894F1288493DA7C796CFBD"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Availability of incident data on Internet</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/3507">Section 3507(g)(4)</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB85950A7540F49CB83C40DD78F095EF7"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H88D08E07DBF54088B553919925A4625C" style="OLC"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB235D86A25D9462EBA880D577D6EFF44"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Website</header><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB26FE43F980146319682C56C3D9A94C6"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Transportation shall maintain a statistical compilation of all incidents on board
a cruise vessel specified in paragraph (3)(A)(i) on an Internet website
that provides a numerical accounting of the missing persons and alleged
crimes reported under that paragraph without regard to the investigative
status of the incident.</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H10367BCB58074F9296AB949194110532"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Updates and other requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The compilation under clause (i) shall—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0386ED9635184AC5A160D28A4DC6B6A0"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be updated not less frequently than quarterly;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H573ECFC6BFB14E0EACB1DEDB25975549"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be able to be sorted by cruise line;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4D19D53CB24E41D380A04283A8A9432B"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identify each cruise line by name;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA621E9588C554DAF959AFD1277FBE0C1"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identify each crime or alleged crime committed or allegedly committed by a passenger or crewmember;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDEDB9BC543D64D049197B84AEF0460AB"><enum>(V)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identify the number of individuals alleged overboard; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id463239F5F1E242A998972E31AB36694D"><enum>(VI)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include the approximate number of passengers and crew carried by each cruise line during each
quarterly reporting period.</text></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFB96DF40298149D8BB2E856860E2BE6B"><enum>(iii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">User-friendly format</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Transportation shall ensure that the compilation, data, and any other information
provided on the Internet website maintained under this subparagraph are in
a user-friendly format. The Secretary shall, to the greatest extent
practicable, use existing commercial off the shelf technology to transfer
and establish the website, and shall not independently develop software,
or acquire new hardware in operating the site.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDA4C11402DCA4182AF7AF87444EF51AF"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B) by striking <quote>Secretary</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary of Transportation</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFC0BCE5DDBC74A38B55BD82FAF83E78B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>322.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard regulations</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H919D85CD2F204DBD96B343DCB34FC59B"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the department
in which the Coast Guard is operating shall submit to the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives an
analysis of the Coast Guard’s proposed promulgation of safety and
environmental management system requirements for vessels engaged in Outer
Continental Shelf activities. The analysis shall include—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE32A21957F2D48B5B1761841E0D57D2E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a discussion of any new operational, management, design and construction, financial, and other
mandates that would be imposed on vessel owners and operators;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H165512C7404343A88691D418C9D6A789"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an estimate of all associated direct and indirect operational, management, personnel, training,
vessel design and construction, record keeping, and other costs;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H86EE0A7AE9474E21A1165FCEB64CBFE9"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an identification and justification of any of such proposed requirements that exceed those in
international conventions applicable to the design, construction,
operation, and management of vessels engaging in United States Outer
Continental Shelf activities; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H96CCA231A7E6401F868F4CDD1CE82FAD"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an identification of exemptions to the proposed requirements, that are based upon vessel
classification, tonnage, offshore activity or function, alternative
certifications, or any other appropriate criteria.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H18A27534C3F94FA5B08FE47BA2523593"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may not issue proposed regulations relating to safety and environmental management
system requirements for vessels on the United States Outer Continental
Shelf for which noticed was published on September 10, 2013 (78 Fed. Reg.
55230) earlier than 6 months after the submittal of the analysis required
by subsection (a).</text></subsection></section><enum>IV</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal Maritime Commission</header><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0E31E365FE1B4F4B91D85E9084633921" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>401.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to the Federal Maritime Commission $24,700,000 for fiscal
year 2015.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3A7A0335EA3E48ED8E300420950BFC8F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>402.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Award of reparations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/41305">Section 41305</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5251543EC9E44719A57B1FDDD3A99F82"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b), by striking <quote>, plus reasonable attorney fees</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6A6B7D31940D435CB0DF2A74CE3CBAF9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE792A0F26AF64451A678C41B65F71FF4" style="OLC"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF3E84B3E741849A08760B7EE46253C80"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Attorney fees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In any action brought under section 41301, the prevailing party may be awarded reasonable attorney
fees.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H60379124D9484B899B6E0B247C832734" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>403.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Terms of Commissioners</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H827C7FDF99D9479587CB1E5F32329843"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/301">Section 301(b)</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE65FD9309A2649BFA2B566612F3DEFBE"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFD8E701CFBD4490997CE19BFE2B5FEA6" style="OLC"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H94C3E98E77124135A4F58BF0A1FA555E"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Terms</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term of each Commissioner is 5 years. When the term of a Commissioner ends, the Commissioner
may continue to serve until a successor is appointed and qualified, but
for a period not to exceed one year. Except as provided in paragraph (3),
no individual may serve more than 2 terms.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE469E8D52388457096907795E6BB2118"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (5), and inserting after paragraph (2) the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2AA702AA3C214C55856CE26EA32A3AFB" style="OLC"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4B626991EA63422893F7490296C755C2"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Vacancies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. An individual appointed
to fill a vacancy is appointed only for the unexpired term of the
individual being succeeded. An individual appointed to fill a vacancy may
serve 2 terms in addition to the remainder of the term for which the
predecessor of that individual was appointed.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFD0A6D2A47BC4B8DB175E0242A057EA0"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conflicts of interest</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF5282AF4E95B427EA1E587F5DB16C9E1"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on relationships with regulated entities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A Commissioner may not have a pecuniary interest in, hold an official relation to, or own stocks or
bonds of any entity the Commission regulates under chapter 401 of this
title.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H533E730E313A402EB3F7AE4D96FF040E"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on other activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A Commissioner may not engage in another business, vocation, or employment.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9FB7374D5F4D4AA8B601871FD61CDE6A"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by subsection (a)(1) does not apply with respect to a Commissioner of the
Federal Maritime Commission appointed and confirmed by the Senate before
the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><enum>V</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Arctic Maritime Transportation</header><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFA1C954ECF72410CA408216BCA0B27BA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>501.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Arctic maritime transportation</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBDC14660B891483CA7FA863B8E877E62"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Arctic maritime transportation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/5">Chapter 5</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/89">section 89</external-xref> the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H084C0E9F04D045A89BF84B5C6FB33634" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCD3E1306C3184525A45794B23C893754" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>90.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Arctic maritime transportation</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAC79F0F3DBE44114914D7BE6499E7891"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Purpose</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The purpose of this section is to ensure safe and secure maritime shipping in the Arctic including
the availability of aids to navigation, vessel escorts, spill response
capability, and maritime search and rescue in the Arctic.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF03728D30B124612BC715B050CF04C27"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">International Maritime Organization Agreements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To carry out the purpose of this section, the Secretary is encouraged to enter into negotiations
through the International Maritime Organization to conclude and execute
agreements to promote coordinated action among the United States, Russia,
Canada, Iceland, Norway, and Denmark and other seafaring and Arctic
nations to ensure, in the Arctic—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2F851F8C9CE541A491C670851CA5E2B0"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">placement and maintenance of aids to navigation;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEADEE87F5F724FB191EF69DD07266459"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">appropriate marine safety, tug, and salvage capabilities;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC8E8050D001544499990F70EFB9702B1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">oil spill prevention and response capability;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7A65999D238F4A6FA8D1C53480200CF5"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">maritime domain awareness, including long-range vessel tracking; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H20460D403A694E4AB380CA17272312BB"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">search and rescue.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H33E2465F0B5843B9B98C763943A98A02"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coordination by Committee on the Maritime Transportation System</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Committee on the Maritime Transportation System established under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/55501">section 55501</external-xref> of title 46,
United States Code, shall coordinate the establishment of domestic
transportation policies in the Arctic necessary to carry out the purpose
of this section.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE00D70E33FFB44359E3AC3CFC22103DF"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agreements and contracts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may, subject to the availability of appropriations, enter into cooperative
agreements, contracts, or other agreements with, or make grants to,
individuals and governments to carry out the purpose of this section or
any agreements established under subsection (b).</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2BEE8850C2E74420BEF0E2F3B5E1F9E4"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Icebreaking</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall promote safe maritime navigation by means of icebreaking where necessary,
feasible, and effective to carry out the purposes of this section.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H82CE9B0EDA474D40B80B2219CEB81BBC"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Arctic definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term <quote>Arctic</quote> has the meaning given such term in section 112 of the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 (15
U.S.C. 4111).</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBEB1F6AB661145DE9F3BFB2A33A28C51"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 89 the
following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2B59DC2F708848AF87670C714635E8CD" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">90. Arctic maritime transportation</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAAFF24D2AE5A43AF8FB84340D1B63B40"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 307 of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/281">Public Law 111–281</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/92">14 U.S.C. 92</external-xref> note) is
repealed.</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H91CE35337CA843099CAF53D29C897017" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>502.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Arctic maritime domain awareness</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB2FF13D89FC0491DB6D626B6973D379F"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/7">Chapter 7</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC87821B7AE7D42EAB21A47FB5C0FA3E9" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD3D8F9F5E6CD48979F3FE9F4BAC6080C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>154.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Arctic maritime domain awareness</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8CCA850B1C654858A1DC502A066B183D"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant shall improve maritime domain awareness in the Arctic—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H26FAFA277018498D850AC1C0AF0BCE8B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by promoting interagency cooperation and coordination;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA13F81FE1FA249928E67530E694B8101"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by employing joint, interagency, and international capabilities; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9C58DAF038AC42E98EA365D9B18B8DFA"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by facilitating the sharing of information, intelligence, and data related to the Arctic maritime
domain between the Coast Guard and departments and agencies listed in
subsection (b).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H71CBFB3D7F954E90A7373B94A2E9F4ED"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coordination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant shall seek to coordinate the collection, sharing, and use of information,
intelligence, and data related to the Arctic maritime domain between the
Coast Guard and the following:</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5DD8DFCEF34F4E44B6AF773F8DAFC836"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Department of Homeland Security.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE111FAEBD0774E53AA797DEF1D01AB27"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Department of Defense.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7C6908C81E5C414BB0BE781955C886A9"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Department of Transportation.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA219714118CF4A449F0DEF5E5FD3518C"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Department of State.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H885D32EA2B93462B8381638A05BB6E0B"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Department of the Interior.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H72DCA702DC5E40D286B55D4BBF5FF03F"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEBD098E495AB4F778B7B0658338AF56C"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3412FBBCED7C454C8CCC8BBA983423FE"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Environmental Protection Agency.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H46FE68E5C0CE4AA4B17249B3F4BA44B0"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The National Science Foundation.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H19BE7C2E6EB44DA4905B8CC4047357E6"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Arctic Research Commission.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0670C9DE8D15489F8023F2A401A87495"><enum>(11)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any Federal agency or commission or State the Commandant determines is appropriate.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7C63F2EDE63145E1A31922A553872DDC"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cooperation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant and the head of a department or agency listed in subsection (b) may by agreement, on
a reimbursable basis or otherwise, share personnel, services, equipment,
and facilities to carry out the requirements of this section.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA73C52D1937446EDBC8E9590CBC72D5E"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">5-year strategic plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than January 1, 2016 and every 5 years thereafter, the Commandant shall submit to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of
Representatives a 5-year strategic plan to guide interagency and
international intergovernmental cooperation and coordination for the
purpose of improving maritime domain awareness in the Arctic.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H54E20091910A4630BBF8B21664D4A642"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section the term <quote>Arctic</quote> has the meaning given that term in section 112 of the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 (15
U.S.C. 4111).</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8F2EE630A43747878D9B3D032FD5A48E"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 153 the
following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H45F5F6BD97654216880DD29FC41EF9A8" style="OLC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">154. Arctic maritime domain awareness.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H12A095CD1E8742A4978FC784C96BC015" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>503.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">IMO Polar Code negotiations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and thereafter with the
submission of the budget proposal submitted for each of fiscal years 2016,
2017, and 2018 under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/1105">section 1105</external-xref> of title 31, United States Code, the
Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall
submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House
of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation of the Senate, a report on—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7807E1D07A2E41C1AF56008F2C094081"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the status of the negotiations at the International Maritime Organization regarding the
establishment of a draft international code of safety for ships operating
in polar waters, popularly known as the Polar Code, and any amendments
proposed by such a code to be made to the International Convention for the
Safety of Life at Sea and the International Convention for the Prevention
of Pollution from Ships;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1B90619E0D7540F78F7BF059DAA18718"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the coming into effect of such a code and such amendments for nations that are parties to those
conventions;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H252998F2123E43F5AB728D3151F28E6A"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">impacts, for coastal communities located in the Arctic (as that term is defined in the section 112
of the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/4111">15 U.S.C. 4111</external-xref>)) of such a
code or such amendments, on—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBEC8D38B2ECC4199B0582F1A847E9F86"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the costs of delivering fuel and freight; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEAF2D9ACD6D64B8D8C330734D3890573"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the safety of maritime transportation; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H66E05DC10C37464399CC3BFA7409359A"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">actions the Secretary must take to implement the requirements of such a code and such amendments.</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBD300EF577D14B9A9E2139C3B7965060" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>504.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Forward operating facilities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may construct
facilities in the Arctic (as that term is defined in section 112 of the
Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/4111">15 U.S.C. 4111</external-xref>). The facilities
shall—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE9C41BFEDA844A42BD5FA9571C3DF0BF"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">support aircraft maintenance, including exhaust ventilation, heat, an engine wash system, fuel,
ground support services, and electrical power;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB727D6EE2A474463AB85CC9258992801"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide shelter for both current helicopter assets and those projected to be located at Air Station
Kodiak, Alaska, for at least 20 years; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF22ACF01D96044BBA28D633D0AB14037"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include accommodations for personnel.</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2828EFBADE7149409C2C1C4708C90CCC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>505.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Icebreakers</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9644C6D62082490AA450E84548C9ACA8"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coast Guard polar icebreakers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 222 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/112/213">Public Law 112–213</external-xref>; 126
Stat. 1560) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3F8A8A76691148B79563167BD15765F3"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d)(2)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H03F06B79A49844CB9E400014BF171C54"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the paragraph heading by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">; bridging strategy</header-in-text></quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDC6E526F078C4618B5D0806996F6EE01"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Commandant of the Coast Guard</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting <quote>Commandant of the Coast Guard may decommission the Polar Sea.</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5E8DE39E65754876B758EA14A31E551C"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end of subsection (d) the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H780DAC9C1A044E2AA442380B913D30C6" style="OLC"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2F73EE19BDAD473DA66904E27BB92057"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Result of no determination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If in the analysis submitted under this section the Secretary does not make a determination under
subsection (a)(5) regarding whether it is cost effective to reactivate the
Polar Sea, then—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1D58413BD95D42BCB8DE956A707FA228"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Commandant of the Coast Guard may decommission the Polar Sea; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H592441B269F247B6B18A6ED9ADAFE07D"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary may make such determination, not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment
of <short-title>Howard Coble Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014</short-title>, and take actions in accordance with this subsection as though such determination was made in the
analysis previously submitted.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB3CCDCD3E6274B12861BF316D9D19B69"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (e), (f), and (g) as subsections (f), (g), and (h), respectively; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3E5113744C2F496FB3CB21AD90E9BBAE"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (d) the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA21A719AFDFA4C609D5BDF17FEAAE92A" style="OLC"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEB8B063E158C4BDAA1AF6EA686BAA0D0"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Strategies</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1C10374275C04D0C864055D743959A2E"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date on which the analysis required under subsection (a) is
submitted, the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall submit to the Committee
on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6DA61E18D6A44FB2AF8BAA10124FC9A9"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">unless the Secretary makes a determination under this section that it is cost effective to
reactivate the Polar Sea, a bridging strategy for maintaining the Coast
Guard’s polar icebreaking services until at least September 30, 2024;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD1DF7AE873BD4962AFAA172A14EDD1C3"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a strategy to meet the Coast Guard’s Arctic ice operations needs through September 30, 2050; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBB2CB5C8AB36451BAE4B369200797E57"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a strategy to meet the Coast Guard’s Antarctic ice operations needs through September 30, 2050</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFCD2620E2A57454C8454D45B6FE08A72"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The strategies required under paragraph (1) shall include a business case analysis comparing the
leasing and purchasing of icebreakers to maintain the needs and services
described in that paragraph.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4158069DD58B4740BEE91F47598201B1"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cutter <quote>Polar Sea</quote></header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon the submission of a service life extension plan in accordance with section 222(d)(1)(C) of the
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/112/213">Public Law 112–213</external-xref>;
126 Stat. 1560), the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard
is operating may use funds authorized under section 101 of this Act to
conduct a service life extension of 7 to 10 years for the Coast Guard
Cutter <italic>Polar Sea</italic> (WAGB 11) in accordance with such plan.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H523894DC032B46DC8AAEA8E2BF81D827"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDA8508EE9D444C778D43E18AED21BDD3"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may not expend amounts
appropriated for the Coast Guard for any of fiscal years 2015 through
2024, for—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5DD1A3B0382C4F7F87A42DA33C3B06F3"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">design activities related to a capability of a Polar-Class Icebreaker that is based solely on an
operational requirement of another Federal department or agency, except
for amounts appropriated for design activities for a fiscal year before
fiscal year 2016; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7D7C68FAF9784C708F192AB2FB1D3F83"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">long-lead-time materials, production, or post-delivery activities related to such a capability.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H368A8EEBE7A54475B320C39015BCFEA3"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other amounts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts made available to the Secretary under an agreement with another Federal department or
agency and expended on a capability of a Polar-Class Icebreaker that is
based solely on an operational requirement of that or another Federal
department or agency shall not be treated as amounts expended by the
Secretary for purposes of the limitation established under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEAE727E312E6404A832E52D920F3DEFC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>506.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Icebreaking in polar regions</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H222C2D9043FC4E529D2419E0D630F308"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/5">Chapter 5</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/86">section 86</external-xref> the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H71D55B339F9F493E8F35242A7E227B62" style="USC"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6F1F0EA5CD7C4473A70DFE5A4B054BA4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>87.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Icebreaking in polar regions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The President shall facilitate planning for the design, procurement, maintenance, deployment, and
operation of icebreakers as needed to support the statutory missions of
the Coast Guard in the polar regions by allocating all funds to support
icebreaking operations in such regions, except for recurring incremental
costs associated with specific projects, to the Coast Guard.</text></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0954CC995FA049C2B87C590674BE65FD"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 86 the
following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H38960BAB0D634E6EAEA5562D2946B319" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">87. Icebreaking in polar regions.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>. </after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><enum>VI</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Miscellaneous</header><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB5FF7A2A33AF474B87AA082F52FDD839" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>601.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Distant water tuna fleet</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 421 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2006 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/8103">46 U.S.C. 8103</external-xref> note) is
amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF592CB4D26064121ADCF440F2650FCEB"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsections (c) and (e); and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE7904935B90F4F529E7CB5C11AE8FAEB"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (d) and (f) as subsections (c) and (d), respectively.</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H80F2FF885E6C4E069AFC7A2F588DFFF1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>602.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Extension of moratorium</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2(a) of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/110/299">Public Law 110–299</external-xref> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1342">33 U.S.C. 1342</external-xref> note) is amended by striking <quote>2014</quote> and inserting <quote>2017</quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4B5500C1AD60448997824638B3F784C5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>603.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National maritime strategy</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H387AE4D2FCE542A19720CA235FE10CA7"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of
Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary of the department in
which the Coast Guard is operating, shall submit to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a
national maritime strategy.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H66A2469586E04978A57A1AA2ED0164BC"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The strategy required under subsection (a) shall—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEFDF722C2F6C414692710591581CD77C"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identify—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD458E3DDBF734D74986CA2C8BE969005"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal regulations and policies that reduce the competitiveness of United States flag vessels in
international transportation markets; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3AEA550133DB4577B3F1BB0520B57DE7"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the impact of reduced cargo flow due to reductions in the number of members of the United States
Armed Forces stationed or deployed outside of the United States; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD4ACB408DAAA4D6A9670B7C9D88D48E8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include recommendations to—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFEBE939C91524147AF4C627F1052C32D"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make United States flag vessels more competitive in shipping routes between United States and
foreign ports;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H88FE8FF6CF89496C83C559CCB3D378E4"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">increase the use of United States flag vessels to carry cargo imported to and exported from the
United States;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H46E8399D3FB64B0C834639D22AE13280"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure compliance by Federal agencies with <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/46/553">chapter 553</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBBB7095A4E324465B0BF394FA5F77C17"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">increase the use of third-party inspection and certification authorities to inspect and certify
vessels;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H81613286608645678F4378DE740791C9"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">increase the use of short sea transportation routes, including routes designated under section
55601(c) of title 46, United States Code, to enhance intermodal freight
movements; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD3890BDBA41343A3BFFF02F82CFE620B"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">enhance United States shipbuilding capability.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5FCD9FC8D9CB457A83E8C0FA2AE52BEE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>604.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Waivers</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H67ABB4D1A89C446986630D61B30B253B"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline"><quote>John Craig</quote></header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF1C86C120FA343B599EC744A1034485F"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/8902">Section 8902</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, shall not apply to the vessel <italic>John Craig</italic> (United States official number D1110613) when such vessel is operating on the portion of the
Kentucky River, Kentucky, located at approximately mile point 158, in Pool
Number 9, between Lock and Dam Number 9 and Lock and Dam Number 10.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF0FEC0B5E66D47E786850FFA4AE16097"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (1) shall apply on and after the date on which the Secretary of the department in which
the Coast Guard is operating determines that a licensing requirement has
been established under Kentucky State law that applies to an operator of
the vessel <italic>John Craig</italic>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFDCCB584CF274FF5B9C61D6540D2FDB5"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline"><quote>F/V Western Challenger</quote></header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/12132">section 12132</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, the Secretary of the department in
which the Coast Guard is operating may issue a certificate of
documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the <italic>F/V Western Challenger</italic> (IMO number 5388108).</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2D6D70ABB95F40CD948D4151C889BAEB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>605.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Competition by United States flag vessels</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD3861BD890464B9C9614D8EAA8B09FA8"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of
Sciences to conduct an assessment of authorities under subtitle II of
title 46, United States Code, that have been delegated to the Coast Guard
and that impact the ability of vessels documented under the laws of the
United States to effectively compete in international transportation
markets.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB7A24CC51CC54550A82C885705DBD036"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Review of differences with IMO standards</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The assessment under subsection (a) shall include a review of differences between United States
laws, policies, regulations, and guidance governing the inspection of
vessels documented under the laws of the United States and standards set
by the International Maritime Organization governing the inspection of
vessels.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7AC06FB874D5400981E317BEB0859795"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Deadline</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date on which the Commandant enters into an arrangement with the
National Academy of Sciences under subsection (a), the Commandant shall
submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House
of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation of the Senate the assessment required under such
subsection.</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H38A01DEE9A9843FF870E7F2EF787BF74" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>606.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Vessel requirements for notices of arrival and departure and automatic identification system</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the department
in which the Coast Guard is operating shall notify the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate of the
status of the final rule that relates to the notice of proposed rulemaking
titled <quote>Vessel Requirements for Notices of Arrival and Departure, and Automatic Identification System</quote> and published in the Federal Register on December 16, 2008 (73 Fed. Reg. 76295).</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H933ED4482BC94694913B6B4C2B3EC341" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>607.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conveyance of Coast Guard property in Rochester, New York</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H02526215FF114C4EAD8481DD2FC3718F"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conveyance authorized</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant of the Coast Guard is authorized to
convey, at fair market value, all right, title, and interest of the United
States in and to a parcel of real property, consisting of approximately
0.2 acres, that is under the administrative control of the Coast Guard and
located at 527 River Street in Rochester, New York.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H93F50B2477BB4141B026AAD5096A6339"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Right of first refusal</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The City of Rochester, New York, shall have the right of first refusal with respect to the
purchase, at fair market value, of the real property described in
subsection (a).</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H321F89413CD04B2E80B3F945E68D297E"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Survey</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The exact acreage and legal description of the property described in subsection (a) shall be
determined by a survey satisfactory to the Commandant.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE4D8F2F4C4854527B9A19DB69F63E153"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fair market value</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The fair market value of the property described in subsection (a) shall—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H78F69002D29247ED92B2D6EC837F0E35"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be determined by appraisal; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD8EFDCD22F3245DD81092294EDAD6EA6"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be subject to the approval of the Commandant.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7ADAA7F232094EF696D478B1FEAE3E5E"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Costs of conveyance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The responsibility for all reasonable and necessary costs, including real estate transaction and
environmental documentation costs, associated with a conveyance under
subsection (a) shall be determined by the Commandant and the purchaser.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0A63DDB2BA8149ED8A06743487D50E83"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Additional terms and conditions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant may require such additional terms and conditions in connection with a conveyance
under subsection (a) as the Commandant considers appropriate and
reasonable to protect the interests of the United States.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8E460D004C274A9B89C96C8002F5B011"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Deposit of proceeds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any proceeds from a conveyance under subsection (a) shall be deposited in the fund established
under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/687">section 687</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code.</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H247276742DAC403B84111683D90CB535" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>608.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conveyance of certain property in Gig Harbor, Washington</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD9F194AA702B46E79AD0D79EDB639744"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the following definitions apply:</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H254A46408092460ABA1E408CE076CBD9"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">City</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>City</term> means the city of Gig Harbor, Washington.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H861C041C4695463E86A83357EBD961F5"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Property</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Property</term> means the parcel of real property, together with any improvements thereon, consisting of
approximately 0.86 acres of fast lands commonly identified as tract 65 of
lot 1 of section 8, township 21 north, range 2 east, Willamette Meridian,
on the north side of the entrance of Gig Harbor, narrows of Puget Sound,
Washington.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H05B2B53FBAF345B9B2F656534AEFC3EA"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Secretary</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6C40D6A03BBC4A26BD5E34AC153B063D"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conveyance</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H04994ACDC5F849FD95AB2FEE217AD662"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authority to convey</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date on which the Secretary of the department in which the Coast
Guard is operating relinquishes the reservation of the Property for
lighthouse purposes, at the request of the City and subject to the
requirements of this section, the Secretary shall convey to the City all
right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the Property,
notwithstanding the land use planning requirements of sections 202 and 203
of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1712">43 U.S.C. 1712</external-xref>,
1713).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBC1BE55EAF934FA7973627CB332315DB"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Terms of conveyance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A conveyance made under paragraph (1) shall be made—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE0A5B0BCCF7F4486B2C91C5F2A3FEF9F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subject to valid existing rights;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAAFCB69955C04B908A83D668D40F5F6F"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">at the fair market value as described in subsection (c); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H533E0797CE3E44BB868BBAB11EB13DD4"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subject to any other condition that the Secretary may consider appropriate to protect the interests
of the United States.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF760E7D222D54B3CB947875952681A91"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Costs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The City shall pay any transaction or administrative costs associated with a conveyance under
paragraph (1), including the costs of the appraisal, title searches, maps,
and boundary and cadastral surveys.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H719EBCDB2C054027AC303F4519187B57"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conveyance is not a major Federal action</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A conveyance under paragraph (1) shall not be considered a major Federal action for purposes of
section 102(2) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C.
4332(2)).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3BF260C063B04EB3B395326F9FC63FCF"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fair market value</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC38D58A7EA034375BB5C4A0DFA6AC764"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Determination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The fair market value of the Property shall be—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H91D5889F11BB4CBF828F3C50741FA20E"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determined by an appraisal conducted by an independent appraiser selected by the Secretary; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H22779D7A066C4FE58C4DFB26DC78CE3F"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">approved by the Secretary in accordance with paragraph (3).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB4A366F432664380A6DAB7C0FFBDECD1"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An appraisal conducted under paragraph (1) shall—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0D33EDC3130A41C4AD1DCE2189861EF6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be conducted in accordance with nationally recognized appraisal standards, including—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H50969DF179FB459B821F9B3033A1BDCE"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEF5F4368F2484144ABE1D7971879BD10"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE758236F64114C38A77AAD8C8F23063F"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall reflect the equitable considerations described in paragraph (3).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H45C8FECA90B145418BF8FC75FE61A3A6"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Equitable considerations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In approving the fair market value of the Property under this subsection, the Secretary shall take
into consideration matters of equity and fairness, including the City’s
past and current lease of the Property, any maintenance or improvements by
the City to the Property, and such other factors as the Secretary
considers appropriate.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H16861CF02EA34C42972C38FEC96B3774"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Revocation; reversion</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective on and after the date on which a conveyance of the Property is made under subsection
(b)(1)—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8B8064786B4C49F4B7E0DC2BDFE19C88"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Executive Order 3528, dated August 9, 1921, is revoked; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEEEA24F78A024D1889B37DAAD0457810"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the use of the tide and shore lands belonging to the State of Washington and adjoining and
bordering the Property, that were granted to the Government of the United
States pursuant to the Act of the Legislature, State of Washington,
approved March 13, 1909, the same being chapter 110 of the Session Laws of
1909, shall revert to the State of Washington.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE12E7C71B1864F1FADF0B18DE7A473A3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>609.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Vessel determination</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The vessel assigned United States official number 1205366 is deemed a new vessel effective on the
date of delivery of the vessel after January 1, 2012, from a privately
owned United States shipyard, if no encumbrances are on record with the
Coast Guard at the time of the issuance of the new certificate of
documentation for the vessel.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H91DC6EEC2B97457B9D4EB51588B5083E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>610.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Safe vessel operation in Thunder Bay</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating and the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency may not prohibit a vessel operating within
the existing boundaries and any future expanded boundaries of the Thunder
Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve from taking up or
discharging ballast water to allow for safe and efficient vessel operation
if the uptake or discharge meets all Federal and State ballast water
management requirements that would apply if the area were not a marine
sanctuary.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1029808CBAD14255967E3B13EA036B4D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>611.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Parking facilities</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9D1BBE13D49B4DAB892C6052B270776A"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Allocation and assignment</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB423C006482E431BA1765C5375049581"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the requirements of this section, the Administrator of General Services, in coordination
with the Commandant of the Coast Guard, shall allocate and assign the
spaces in parking facilities at the Department of Homeland Security St.
Elizabeths Campus to allow any member or employee of the Coast Guard, who
is assigned to the Campus, to use such spaces.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H93D7029EDFB64E2EB2463B42F8A5C497"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Timing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out paragraph (1), and in addition to the parking spaces allocated and assigned to
Coast Guard members and employees in fiscal year 2014, the Administrator
shall allocate and assign not less than—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0BEC18E012E34AD6BC36E2C0EAE6EE99"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">300 parking spaces not later than September 30, 2015;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7231728EC7E74CD0A18A6D08C746ECCD"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">700 parking spaces not later than September 30, 2016; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1DAEABE9FD2540E5B2AA73D0FD110D22"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">1,042 parking spaces not later than September 30, 2017.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA7D455222E2A45EBAADF56D295506156"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transportation management report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and each fiscal year thereafter
in which spaces are allocated and assigned under subsection (a)(2), the
Administrator shall provide to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report on—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H06330125ACBE4A9DA375E3A2E08985BE"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the impact of assigning and allocating parking spaces under subsection (a) on the congestion of
roads connecting the St. Elizabeths Campus to the portions of Suitland
Parkway and I–295 located in the Anacostia section of the District of
Columbia; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7BD630554A094CDFB0AE49CE26E75B88"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">progress made toward completion of essential transportation improvements identified in the
Transportation Management Program for the St. Elizabeths Campus.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEF00BB4CAFBD421CB71CC3B3B2E096FE"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reallocation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Administrator may revise the allocation and assignment of
spaces to members and employees of the Coast Guard made under subsection
(a) as necessary to accommodate employees of the Department of Homeland
Security, other than the Coast Guard, when such employees are assigned to
the St. Elizabeths Campus.</text></subsection></section>Speaker of the House of RepresentativesVice President of the United States and President of the Senate