3.0.0 2729 2023-01-11T13:31:43Z 2023-01-11T13:31:43Z Senate S 2016-03-17 114 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2016-03-17T20:19:28Z Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Reform Act of 2016 114 5417 HR 2016-06-10 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. Identical bill CRS 2016-03-17 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. IntroReferral 2016-03-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001111 Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] Patty Murray D WA N C000127 Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] Maria Cantwell D WA 2016-03-17 True Transportation and Public Works Government trust funds Navigation, waterways, harbors Saint Lawrence Seaway Sales and excise taxes Tax administration and collection, taxpayers Transportation programs funding User charges and fees Water resources funding Transportation and Public Works 00 2016-03-17 Introduced in Senate 2016-07-12T22:11:39Z Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Reform Act of 2016

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make certain amounts in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund available, without appropriation, for expenditures to pay:

  • 100% of the eligible operations and maintenance costs of specified portions of the Saint Lawrence Seaway as well as those assigned to commercial navigation of all U.S. harbors and inland harbors;
  • rebates of certain tolls or charges on the Seaway; and
  • all expenses of administration relating to harbor maintenance tax incurred by the Department of the Treasury, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Department of Commerce.

The Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 is amended to:

  • require allocation to certain donor ports and energy transfer ports of at least 20% of amounts made available each fiscal year from the Trust Fund, and
  • authorize the Department of the Army to make the allocations equally between these kinds of ports.

A "donor port" is a port, subject to the harbor maintenance fee, located in a state in which more than 2 million cargo containers were unloaded from or loaded on to vessels in FY2012, whose total amount of collected harbor maintenance taxes comes to less than $15 million annually, and which received less than 25% of the total amount of harbor maintenance taxes collected at that port in the previous five fiscal years.

An "energy transfer port" is one, also subject to the harbor maintenance fee, through which more than 40 million tons of cargo were transported in FY2012, and at which energy commodities constituted more than 25% of all commercial activity by tonnage in that fiscal year.

]]> Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Reform Act of 2016 Display Title Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Reform Act of 2016 Official Title as Introduced A bill to require full spending of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, provide for expanded uses of the Fund, and prevent cargo diversion, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Reform Act of 2016 Introduced in Senate 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s2729is/xml/BILLS-114s2729is.xml 2016-03-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.