[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4914 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4914

   To authorize the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of 
Defense to carry out a cooperative research and development program of 
    dual use transportation technologies for certain commercial and 
             military applications, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 2002

  Mr. Horn (for himself, Mr. Lewis of California, Mr. Murtha, and Mr. 
   Weldon of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the 
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of 
Defense to carry out a cooperative research and development program of 
    dual use transportation technologies for certain commercial and 
             military applications, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Center for Commercial Deployment of 
Transportation Technology Development Authorization Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. JOINT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION/DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
              PROGRAM TO DEVELOP TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR 
              COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY APPLICATIONS.

    Section 8 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 U.S.C. App. 867) is 
amended--
            (1) by designating the text as subsection (a); and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from amounts 
made available to carry out this subsection, the Secretary of Defense, 
in cooperation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall carry out a 
program under this subsection to develop and deploy dual use 
transportation technologies for commercial and military applications, 
including but not limited to the following:
            ``(A) Agile port.
            ``(B) High-speed sealift.
            ``(C) Advanced cargo and passenger vessel hull design, 
        propulsion systems, and construction employing national defense 
        features.
            ``(D) Rapid deployment.
            ``(E) Command and control, and decision support.
            ``(F) Maritime, port, and cargo security.
    ``(2) The Secretary of Defense shall carry out such program in 
cooperation with the Secretary of Transportation under section 
2358(b)(4) of title 10, United States Code.
    ``(3) The program required by paragraph (1) shall be carried out 
pursuant to a cooperative agreement to be entered into by the Secretary 
of Defense, the Secretary of Transportation, and the Center for 
Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technology of California State 
University, Long Beach.
    ``(4) Of amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for the 
use of the Department of Defense for research, development, test, and 
evaluation, Defense-wide, the following amounts shall be available for 
a task and delivery order contract under section 2304(c) of title 10, 
United States Code, to carry out this subsection, to remain available 
until expended:
            ``(A) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2003.
            ``(B) $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 and 2005.
            ``(C) $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 and 2007.''
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