[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1515 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1515

To amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize 
 funds to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services 
  specific to the Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United 
 States extended continental shelf, and the monitoring and description 
                          of coastal changes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 24, 2009

 Ms. Murkowski introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize 
 funds to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services 
  specific to the Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United 
 States extended continental shelf, and the monitoring and description 
                          of coastal changes.

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

SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 306 of the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 
(33 U.S.C. 892d) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraphs:
            ``(7) To acquire hydrographic data, provide hydrographic 
        services, and conduct coastal change analyses necessary to 
        ensure safe navigation, and to improve the management of 
        coastal change in the Arctic, $10,000,000 for each of fiscal 
        years 2011 and 2012.
            ``(8) To acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic 
        services in the Arctic necessary to delineate the United States 
        extended continental shelf, $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
        2011 and 2012.''.
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