<enum>I</enum><header>Authorization</header> <section id="id81BA687F97164A4E86F585CDBA09914F"><enum>101.</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header> <subsection id="ID1e5744bd211e4a7bae1aca629f2849c0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Fiscal year 2012</header><text>Funds are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2012 for necessary expenses of the Coast Guard as follows:</text> <paragraph id="ID1d67cc3d36be471ba632a48ed947d23d"><enum>(1)</enum><text>For the operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard, $7,077,783,000 of which $24,500,000 is authorized to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID7d393a124c024cfea5a11dddeaa3d501"><enum>(2)</enum><text>For the acquisition, construction, rebuilding, renovation, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities, vessels, and aircraft, including equipment related thereto, $1,421,924,000 of which—</text> <subparagraph id="IDd406650968fc4c399d36b05a14f0bc8e"><enum>(A)</enum><text>$20,000,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2712">33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)</external-xref>), to remain available until expended;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID011dbe67950c4e54b5610620dc8bf64a"><enum>(B)</enum><text>$642,000,000 is authorized to acquire, effect major repairs to, renovate, or improve vessels, small boats, and related equipment;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID066a9e0691b04ab19c21b4c2a73ae81a"><enum>(C)</enum><text>$289,000,000 is authorized to acquire, effect major repairs to, renovate, or improve aircraft or increase aviation capability;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID77e2227df6ec4ebb8bba1a75f9690b8c"><enum>(D)</enum><text>$166,140,000 is authorized for other equipment;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID6692a3172a134dd09547c464539b4f4e"><enum>(E)</enum><text>$213,692,000 is authorized for shore facilities, aids to navigation facilities, and military housing, of which not more than $14,000,000 shall be derived from the Coast Guard Housing Fund; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDed2938e513ef49b7846a9366fadf8692"><enum>(F)</enum><text>$110,192,000 is authorized for personnel compensation and benefits and related costs.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID0be222716ede461591417cceded282fd"><enum>(3)</enum><text>For research, development, testing, and evaluation of technologies, materials, and human factors directly related to improving the performance of the Coast Guard's mission in search and rescue, aids to navigation, marine safety, marine environmental protection, enforcement of laws and treaties, ice operations, oceanographic research, and defense readiness, $19,779,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID8a682a98ef024c1da6870d88769dec7f"><enum>(4)</enum><text>For retired pay (including the payment of obligations otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this purpose), payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefit Plans, and payments for medical and dental care of retired personnel and their dependents under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, $1,440,157,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID59b1ff40c39a4a7c9bfdc1e92e1a3f5f"><enum>(5)</enum><text>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><paragraph id="IDa96211a81f4b464ca8969d0264333896"><enum>(6)</enum><text>For environmental compliance and restoration functions under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/19">chapter 19</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, $16,699,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID240e13a9d4e04bb28741cbddf4491d58"><enum>(7)</enum><text>For operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard Reserve program, $136,778,000.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID58f6a255c381434eb5a736ef31cc3082"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Fiscal year 2013</header><text>Funds are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2013 for necessary expenses of the Coast Guard as follows:</text> <paragraph id="ID6efbd6a25a7d4c12ab31e73f204ced29"><enum>(1)</enum><text>For the operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard, $7,077,783,000 of which $24,500,000 is authorized to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID90dd345b724343479d674ab78badd760"><enum>(2)</enum><text>For the acquisition, construction, rebuilding, renovation, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities, vessels, and aircraft, including equipment related thereto, $1,421,924,000 of which—</text> <subparagraph id="ID9a95b3307a4544f9a52cbfc79b3cebe0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>$20,000,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2712">33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)</external-xref>), to remain available until expended;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID49637127cb474c1989e5ab412b6e8a19"><enum>(B)</enum><text>$642,000,000 is authorized to acquire, effect major repairs, renovate, or improve vessels, small boats, and related equipment;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID441e1e8030244f668d038282e7224794"><enum>(C)</enum><text>$289,000,000 is authorized to acquire, effect major repairs, renovate, or improve aircraft or increase aviation capability;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDbf2d6e46765146dc852f6c74d2009905"><enum>(D)</enum><text>$166,140,000 is authorized for other equipment;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID65cfef9971f744e7a8cd3781017491cb"><enum>(E)</enum><text>$213,692,000 is authorized for shore facilities, aids to navigation facilities, and military housing, of which not more than $14,000,000 shall be derived from the Coast Guard Housing Fund; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID1d4962df06e841f8881ef1b207c8ef87"><enum>(F)</enum><text>$110,192,000 is authorized for personnel compensation and benefits and related costs.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID3c59a460867244089c8ee720984d06ac"><enum>(3)</enum><text>For research, development, testing, and evaluation of technologies, materials, and human factors directly related to improving the performance of the Coast Guard's mission in search and rescue, aids to navigation, marine safety, marine environmental protection, enforcement of laws and treaties, ice operations, oceanographic research, and defense readiness, $19,779,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDf772f03b5d984253beb444d7f13d523a"><enum>(4)</enum><text>For retired pay (including the payment of obligations otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this purpose), payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefit Plans, and payments for medical and dental care of retired personnel and their dependents under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, such sums as are required, to remain available until expended.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDacb00e6cbd1441ac9b6029060c3fb57e"><enum>(5)</enum><text>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><paragraph id="ID35cc1a92e5d1457b902714eb7a9858df"><enum>(6)</enum><text>For environmental compliance and restoration functions under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/19">chapter 19</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, $16,699,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID515141448afa44c9962dc9afc672dc6c"><enum>(7)</enum><text>For operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard Reserve program, $136,778,000.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="IDa4a476a8e60b4e04a061cfc089f77094"><enum>102.</enum><header>Authorized levels of military strength and training</header> <subsection id="IDbe49765ae91449a79c9bf1c7408cb1bd"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Fiscal year 2012</header> <paragraph id="IDb2b45580911a4bfda07a4d66a2f3ff5e"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Active duty strength</header><text>The Coast Guard is authorized an end-of-year strength for active duty personnel of 47,000 for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2012.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDb02425dcafae488d9c4b8d597bf90981"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Military training student loads</header><text>For fiscal year 2012, the Coast Guard is authorized average military training student loads as follows:</text> <subparagraph id="IDa2cd2ed20fba42c1a6ade91e533abc09"><enum>(A)</enum><text>For recruit and special training, 2,500 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd4e22510b7a64726b009fa909cc52452"><enum>(B)</enum><text>For flight training, 165 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDbc6bf71d30f546a8b8f185c3ecef3060"><enum>(C)</enum><text>For professional training in military and civilian institutions, 350 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDcecd820f8a9a467a8ef46a456a34c6ad"><enum>(D)</enum><text>For officer acquisition, 1,200 student years.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDea8dddd447d345fdaa79818e441adb01"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Fiscal year 2013</header> <paragraph id="IDc50d4854ce9241fab9b51502373898d3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Active duty strength</header><text>The Coast Guard is authorized an end-of-year strength for active duty personnel of 49,350 for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2013.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDb88023de010d4183859add12071c34d7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Military training student loads</header><text>For fiscal year 2013, the Coast Guard is authorized average military training student loads as follows:</text> <subparagraph id="ID6851b4ce12334b2595ae065f0e53ac90"><enum>(A)</enum><text>For recruit and special training, 2,625 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDfede637e403747a1b19b4fb183aaba4d"><enum>(B)</enum><text>For flight training, 173 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd30144bf0bd74d31b33145929bb50a83"><enum>(C)</enum><text>For professional training in military and civilian institutions, 368 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID7736477b6c244e4e9bf55e967e86ae4f"><enum>(D)</enum><text>For officer acquisition, 1,260 student years.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>

Short title; table of contents

(a)

Short title

This Act may be cited as the

Coast Guard Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013

. (b)

Table of contents

The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

TITLE I—Authorization

Sec. 101. Authorization of appropriations.

Sec. 102. Authorized levels of military strength and training.

TITLE II—Organization

Sec. 201. Coast Guard authority to operate and maintain Coast Guard assets.

Sec. 202. Clarification of Coast Guard ice operations mission.

TITLE III—Personnel

Sec. 301. Acquisition workforce expedited hiring authority.

Sec. 302. Inactive duty promotion list flag officers in active status.

Sec. 303. Officers recommended for promotion.

Sec. 304. Original appointment of permanent commissioned officers.

Sec. 305. Academy pay, allowances, and emoluments.

Sec. 306. Academy policy on sexual harassment and sexual violence.

Sec. 307. Coast Guard auxiliarists enrollment eligibility.

TITLE IV—Administration

Sec. 401. Advance procurement funding.

Sec. 402. Authority to maintain United States polar icebreaking capability.

Sec. 403. Forward operating facility.

Sec. 404. National response functions.

Sec. 405. Conforming amendment.

TITLE V—Shipping and navigation

Sec. 501. Designation of St. George Harbor as a harbor of refuge.

Sec. 502. Protection and fair treatment of seafarers.

Sec. 503. Delegation of authority.

Sec. 504. Report on establishment of arctic deep water port.

TITLE VI—Miscellaneous

Sec. 601. Conveyance of decommissioned Coast Guard cutter STORIS.

Sec. 602. Coast Guard administrative costs.

Sec. 603. Oil spill liability trust fund investment amount.

Sec. 604. Dry dock operation.

Sec. 605. Technical amendments.

<enum>I</enum><header>Authorization</header> <section id="id81BA687F97164A4E86F585CDBA09914F"><enum>101.</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header> <subsection id="ID1e5744bd211e4a7bae1aca629f2849c0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Fiscal year 2012</header><text>Funds are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2012 for necessary expenses of the Coast Guard as follows:</text> <paragraph id="ID1d67cc3d36be471ba632a48ed947d23d"><enum>(1)</enum><text>For the operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard, $7,077,783,000 of which $24,500,000 is authorized to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID7d393a124c024cfea5a11dddeaa3d501"><enum>(2)</enum><text>For the acquisition, construction, rebuilding, renovation, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities, vessels, and aircraft, including equipment related thereto, $1,421,924,000 of which—</text> <subparagraph id="IDd406650968fc4c399d36b05a14f0bc8e"><enum>(A)</enum><text>$20,000,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2712">33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)</external-xref>), to remain available until expended;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID011dbe67950c4e54b5610620dc8bf64a"><enum>(B)</enum><text>$642,000,000 is authorized to acquire, effect major repairs to, renovate, or improve vessels, small boats, and related equipment;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID066a9e0691b04ab19c21b4c2a73ae81a"><enum>(C)</enum><text>$289,000,000 is authorized to acquire, effect major repairs to, renovate, or improve aircraft or increase aviation capability;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID77e2227df6ec4ebb8bba1a75f9690b8c"><enum>(D)</enum><text>$166,140,000 is authorized for other equipment;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID6692a3172a134dd09547c464539b4f4e"><enum>(E)</enum><text>$213,692,000 is authorized for shore facilities, aids to navigation facilities, and military housing, of which not more than $14,000,000 shall be derived from the Coast Guard Housing Fund; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDed2938e513ef49b7846a9366fadf8692"><enum>(F)</enum><text>$110,192,000 is authorized for personnel compensation and benefits and related costs.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID0be222716ede461591417cceded282fd"><enum>(3)</enum><text>For research, development, testing, and evaluation of technologies, materials, and human factors directly related to improving the performance of the Coast Guard's mission in search and rescue, aids to navigation, marine safety, marine environmental protection, enforcement of laws and treaties, ice operations, oceanographic research, and defense readiness, $19,779,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID8a682a98ef024c1da6870d88769dec7f"><enum>(4)</enum><text>For retired pay (including the payment of obligations otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this purpose), payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefit Plans, and payments for medical and dental care of retired personnel and their dependents under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, $1,440,157,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID59b1ff40c39a4a7c9bfdc1e92e1a3f5f"><enum>(5)</enum><text>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><paragraph id="IDa96211a81f4b464ca8969d0264333896"><enum>(6)</enum><text>For environmental compliance and restoration functions under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/19">chapter 19</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, $16,699,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID240e13a9d4e04bb28741cbddf4491d58"><enum>(7)</enum><text>For operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard Reserve program, $136,778,000.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID58f6a255c381434eb5a736ef31cc3082"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Fiscal year 2013</header><text>Funds are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2013 for necessary expenses of the Coast Guard as follows:</text> <paragraph id="ID6efbd6a25a7d4c12ab31e73f204ced29"><enum>(1)</enum><text>For the operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard, $7,077,783,000 of which $24,500,000 is authorized to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID90dd345b724343479d674ab78badd760"><enum>(2)</enum><text>For the acquisition, construction, rebuilding, renovation, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities, vessels, and aircraft, including equipment related thereto, $1,421,924,000 of which—</text> <subparagraph id="ID9a95b3307a4544f9a52cbfc79b3cebe0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>$20,000,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2712">33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)</external-xref>), to remain available until expended;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID49637127cb474c1989e5ab412b6e8a19"><enum>(B)</enum><text>$642,000,000 is authorized to acquire, effect major repairs, renovate, or improve vessels, small boats, and related equipment;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID441e1e8030244f668d038282e7224794"><enum>(C)</enum><text>$289,000,000 is authorized to acquire, effect major repairs, renovate, or improve aircraft or increase aviation capability;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDbf2d6e46765146dc852f6c74d2009905"><enum>(D)</enum><text>$166,140,000 is authorized for other equipment;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID65cfef9971f744e7a8cd3781017491cb"><enum>(E)</enum><text>$213,692,000 is authorized for shore facilities, aids to navigation facilities, and military housing, of which not more than $14,000,000 shall be derived from the Coast Guard Housing Fund; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID1d4962df06e841f8881ef1b207c8ef87"><enum>(F)</enum><text>$110,192,000 is authorized for personnel compensation and benefits and related costs.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID3c59a460867244089c8ee720984d06ac"><enum>(3)</enum><text>For research, development, testing, and evaluation of technologies, materials, and human factors directly related to improving the performance of the Coast Guard's mission in search and rescue, aids to navigation, marine safety, marine environmental protection, enforcement of laws and treaties, ice operations, oceanographic research, and defense readiness, $19,779,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDf772f03b5d984253beb444d7f13d523a"><enum>(4)</enum><text>For retired pay (including the payment of obligations otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this purpose), payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefit Plans, and payments for medical and dental care of retired personnel and their dependents under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, such sums as are required, to remain available until expended.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDacb00e6cbd1441ac9b6029060c3fb57e"><enum>(5)</enum><text>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><paragraph id="ID35cc1a92e5d1457b902714eb7a9858df"><enum>(6)</enum><text>For environmental compliance and restoration functions under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/19">chapter 19</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, $16,699,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID515141448afa44c9962dc9afc672dc6c"><enum>(7)</enum><text>For operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard Reserve program, $136,778,000.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="IDa4a476a8e60b4e04a061cfc089f77094"><enum>102.</enum><header>Authorized levels of military strength and training</header> <subsection id="IDbe49765ae91449a79c9bf1c7408cb1bd"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Fiscal year 2012</header> <paragraph id="IDb2b45580911a4bfda07a4d66a2f3ff5e"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Active duty strength</header><text>The Coast Guard is authorized an end-of-year strength for active duty personnel of 47,000 for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2012.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDb02425dcafae488d9c4b8d597bf90981"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Military training student loads</header><text>For fiscal year 2012, the Coast Guard is authorized average military training student loads as follows:</text> <subparagraph id="IDa2cd2ed20fba42c1a6ade91e533abc09"><enum>(A)</enum><text>For recruit and special training, 2,500 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd4e22510b7a64726b009fa909cc52452"><enum>(B)</enum><text>For flight training, 165 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDbc6bf71d30f546a8b8f185c3ecef3060"><enum>(C)</enum><text>For professional training in military and civilian institutions, 350 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDcecd820f8a9a467a8ef46a456a34c6ad"><enum>(D)</enum><text>For officer acquisition, 1,200 student years.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDea8dddd447d345fdaa79818e441adb01"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Fiscal year 2013</header> <paragraph id="IDc50d4854ce9241fab9b51502373898d3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Active duty strength</header><text>The Coast Guard is authorized an end-of-year strength for active duty personnel of 49,350 for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2013.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDb88023de010d4183859add12071c34d7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Military training student loads</header><text>For fiscal year 2013, the Coast Guard is authorized average military training student loads as follows:</text> <subparagraph id="ID6851b4ce12334b2595ae065f0e53ac90"><enum>(A)</enum><text>For recruit and special training, 2,625 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDfede637e403747a1b19b4fb183aaba4d"><enum>(B)</enum><text>For flight training, 173 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd30144bf0bd74d31b33145929bb50a83"><enum>(C)</enum><text>For professional training in military and civilian institutions, 368 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID7736477b6c244e4e9bf55e967e86ae4f"><enum>(D)</enum><text>For officer acquisition, 1,260 student years.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header>Organization</header> <section id="id89467CDBF2284E2C9EE1EF18E5C89A90"><enum>201.</enum><header>Coast Guard authority to operate and maintain Coast Guard assets</header> <subsection id="IDd74cf0cefb274329acec527f581d8a6e"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id126F4ACC6C4341BEB61D2C14F8A12E96" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC"> <subsection id="ID339da2e3798f4f5fa33586c81ae76cb2"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Operation and maintenance of Coast Guard assets and facilities</header><text>All authority, including programmatic budget authority, for the operation and maintenance of Coast Guard vessels, aircraft, systems, aides to navigation, infrastructure, and any other Coast Guard assets or facilities, shall be allocated to and vested in the Coast Guard and the department in which the Coast Guard is operating.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section id="ID9a0a00f2e205456a8ce5ea7b33a9549e"><enum>202.</enum><header>Clarification of Coast Guard ice operations mission</header> <subsection id="id4C00C2096C2541D183CFBA3FF006626B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Coast guard provision of Federal icebreaking services</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 section 86 the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB08B1B01FA114436AFBE6A0294DB9437" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC"> <section id="idEDCB38EFF2AB4E159FC85CA353B4AB03"><enum>87.</enum><header>Provision of icebreaking services</header> <subsection id="IDee55c45d9b734c5d98589bc8dc51469b"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in subsection (b), the Coast Guard shall be the sole supplier of icebreaking services, on an advancement or reimbursable basis, to each Federal agency that requires icebreaking services.</text> </subsection><subsection id="ID79e918a09253448181f9f739918b529d"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>In the event that a Federal agency requires icebreaking services and the Coast Guard is unable to provide the services, the Federal agency may acquire icebreaking services from another entity.</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="ID17016efb08ee4ee7a3958116eb8ee85c"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Priority of Coast Guard missions in polar regions</header> <paragraph id="ID8f09cb5bfc8f4744ac896f0530737bd8"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Section 110</header><text>Section 110(b)(2) of the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/4109">15 U.S.C. 4109(b)(2)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="ID3fc9765852aa4bcebd152ce604cb75f5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>to execute the statutory missions of the Coast Guard and</quote> after <quote>needed</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID0ad65bba3549425c9905428cca743500"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>and all budget authority related to such operations</quote> after <quote>projects,</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID3e271b8801cd46cf94b501eeb7c03867"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Section 312</header><text>Section 312(c) of the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Convention Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/2441">16 U.S.C. 2441(c)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>to execute the statutory missions of the Coast Guard and</quote> after <quote>needed</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id799D7AD32BB54877B84B884A8BBA2730"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The table of contents for <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 the item relating to section 86 the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id017C32146B0B45B893D36C0AA214E8C9" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC"> <toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="strikethrough"> <toc-entry bold="off" level="section">87. Provision of icebreaking services.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header>Personnel</header> <section id="IDaf62002bfbd64d708180b1b1242f3c16"><enum>301.</enum><header>Acquisition workforce expedited hiring authority</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 404 of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010 (124 Stat. 2950) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="ID90c0b7afcc74456ba97da078ade3f14f"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(1), by striking <quote>as shortage category positions</quote> and inserting <quote>as positions for which there is a shortage of candidates or a critical hiring need</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID8427a719db7c43a9bce0b3292ec7877f"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text> <subparagraph id="IDa10c2dffc9f048f9a1a633fd4e30b7f7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>paragraph</quote> and inserting <quote>section</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDf63f86631c3743e5a244876c4982fb35"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>2012</quote> and inserting <quote>2015</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="ID9a31a9045c54467b9ac1b0771df7f29d"><enum>302.</enum><header>Inactive duty promotion list flag officers in active status</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/724">Section 724(b)(2)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>two</quote> and inserting <quote>3</quote>.</text> </section><section id="id44E24BBC7E9741CDA30AEEFD952206DA"><enum>303.</enum><header>Officers recommended for promotion</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/259">Section 259(c)(1)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>After selecting</quote> and inserting <quote>In selecting</quote>.</text> </section><section id="id658DA0DC169E4E2087592422F61FCB26"><enum>304.</enum><header>Original appointment of permanent commissioned officers</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/211">Section 211</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3D1761217DFE4BB59AE224C2E77964C0" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC"> <subsection id="id5F4E0016C6ED4C1B93C77387B1BE3EA3"><enum>(d)</enum><text>For purposes of this section, the term <term>original</term> with respect to the appointment of a member of the Coast Guard refers to the member's most recent appointment in the Coast Guard that is neither a promotion nor a demotion.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section id="ID9435d3403a0a4db5b8eb77d23701afc8"><enum>305.</enum><header>Academy pay, allowances, and emoluments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/195">Section 195</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="IDe401ac1eb76d42e7b84dcfc53df82196"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>person</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>foreign national</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id67C9D38298AB4C7D8C92A0131DB7357E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>pay and allowances</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>pay, allowances, and emoluments</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="IDefc7ab390bb74bedb0236cd0be96fc6a"><enum>306.</enum><header>Academy policy on sexual harassment and sexual violence</header> <subsection id="id4E38AD970896432D92C0DE5F7902E042"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/9">Chapter 9</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0D730B7382D5474A93154E1A777F2F24" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC"> <section id="ID740190e2d5a049a09fec2f88379d7b46"><enum>200.</enum><header>Policy on sexual harassment and sexual violence</header> <subsection id="ID31e5a302dc8c419188b8721777d3a396"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Required policy</header><text>The Commandant shall direct the Superintendent of the Academy to prescribe a policy on sexual harassment and sexual violence. The policy shall apply to each member of the Coast Guard Academy personnel. For purposes of this section, the term <term>Coast Guard Academy personnel</term> includes cadets.</text> </subsection><subsection id="ID3752b15929674d3696c511ed856e1ff7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Policy specifications</header><text>The policy under subsection (a) shall include—</text> <paragraph id="ID7b424352001b49f1be35d296b2fe3a5c"><enum>(1)</enum><text>programs to promote awareness of the incidence of rape, acquaintance rape, and other sexual offenses of a criminal nature on and off the Academy reservation;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID7db27d847b674287bc7e8b9050d8b70c"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the procedure that a victim of sexual harassment or sexual violence on or off the Academy reservation shall follow if the victim chooses to report the sexual harassment or sexual violence, including—</text> <subparagraph id="ID20f087bf2b2d46a89b9e6449eb3162aa"><enum>(A)</enum><text>how to report the alleged sexual harassment or sexual violence, including—</text> <clause id="idE3181B4A5C194A40A4BAD0BDE5988F16"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the name and contact information of each person that the victim must contact; and</text> </clause><clause id="id7661613CAF854D5F982B37C71729D131"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>an option for confidential reporting;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDdc127787df97491bbdc0f66b6554b0e7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the name and contact information of each person that the victim can contact for assistance; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDb4bff7a627e44bf3996c68923fc9984d"><enum>(C)</enum><text>how to preserve evidence;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID7f24640298744cefa39e9e862183d578"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the procedure for disciplinary action against a member of the Coast Guard Academy personnel who commits sexual harassment or sexual violence;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDdc0d9b57f58440df84e24994bfe7bdf7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>any other authorized sanctions against a member of the Coast Guard Academy personnel who commits sexual harassment or sexual violence; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID769e2ec2a28c4494891e94aff3fcfb2f"><enum>(5)</enum><text>required training on the policy for each member of the Coast Guard Academy personnel, including a specific training requirement for each member of the Coast Guard Academy personnel who process allegations of sexual harassment or sexual violence.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID14d2b2f4eb0b494aac9c1d5dc2abf5ee"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Assessment</header> <paragraph id="ID406a536af5074abca93504c14af3c7ce"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Commandant shall direct the Superintendent of the Academy to conduct an assessment during each Academy program year to determine the effectiveness of the policy under subsection (a).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID0603f2c4519a4d59b395563ba48a5e0a"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Biennial survey</header><text>Each assessment under paragraph (1) that is conducted during an odd-numbered program year shall include a survey of Coast Guard Academy personnel. The survey shall—</text> <subparagraph id="ID87b76803a6f442f1905ce58b72a7d70b"><enum>(A)</enum><text>measure—</text> <clause id="ID3de1b1d547d5479db59067a0a343f4a9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the incidence, during that program year, of sexual harassment and sexual violence, on or off the Academy reservation, that were reported under subsection (b)(2); and</text> </clause><clause id="ID9801c100e22e47af978205b30ae55aba"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the incidence, during that program year, of sexual harassment and sexual violence, on or off the Academy reservation, that were not reported under subsection (b)(2); and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID8ebbc775c68a406fade56fc00b1dc3bc"><enum>(B)</enum><text>assess the perceptions of Coast Guard Academy personnel regarding—</text> <clause id="IDeefef3f901c643bf97991b08ef60b182"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the policy, training, and procedures on sexual harassment and sexual violence;</text> </clause><clause id="IDabccf7c68b25432f8999a856156b6e9d"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the enforcement of the policy;</text> </clause><clause id="IDd7ca1a4c2281499ab1c834752a1663bc"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the incidence of sexual harassment and sexual violence involving Coast Guard Academy personnel; and</text> </clause><clause id="IDfec6baf5fd5e468eb53de1be06855a8f"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>any other issues relating to sexual harassment and sexual violence involving Coast Guard Academy personnel, that the Superintendent of the Academy considers relevant.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID0f26273091804d758d9eccbddee23b04"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Report</header> <paragraph id="IDb5fa1c2f3af94dc4b4adb4af25487713"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Commandant shall direct the Superintendent of the Academy to submit a report to the Commandant each Academy program year on sexual harassment and sexual violence involving a member of the Coast Guard Academy personnel that year.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDba0f54a485554df1989e45f6a2b5041b"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report specifications</header><text>A report under paragraph (1) shall include—</text> <subparagraph id="IDb23f9d1df95c4066bd601c7fb23c40a3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the number of reported incidents of sexual violence, on or off the Academy reservation, involving a member of the Coast Guard Academy, categorized by the type of offence, such as rape and sexual assault;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id03C2BA528A1A48A698A41108ECF3FEC6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the number of reported incidents under subparagraph (A) that were substantiated;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDf5b2b3abf098400d9193c3921370efae"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any updates to the policy, training, or procedures on sexual harassment and sexual violence under this section during the Academy program year; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID43ea15843594493b99ca216c024d7c86"><enum>(D)</enum><text>a plan detailing the action that will be taken during the subsequent Academy program year to respond to and prevent sexual harassment and sexual violence, on or off the Academy reservation, involving a member of the Coast Guard Academy.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDf7bc3edb47e74023bbd0cb61dc5c8d02"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Biennial survey</header><text>Each report under paragraph (1) that is submitted during an odd-numbered program year shall include the results of the survey under subsection (c)(2).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID18376737f6d74016816612cf4d5660b5"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Transmission of report</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of receipt of a report under paragraph (1), the Commandant shall transmit a copy of the report and the Commandant’s comments on the report to 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></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="id7916613BBFCC430DA174F9DC0FDB42B1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming Amendment</header><text>The table of contents for <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/9">chapter 9</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 199 the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFB4595B3A4B443FAAC7AF7D036CCF0EF" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC"> <toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="strikethrough"> <toc-entry bold="off" level="section">200. Academy policy on sexual harassment and sexual violence.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section id="IDc5d701ba96e14dd78269bb39bc60686d"><enum>307.</enum><header>Coast Guard auxiliarists enrollment eligibility</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/823">Section 823</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD3E327AADCB049ECA3B00E1D9A8EB39C" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC"> <section id="id34033AE4F5474ADE921B3BBD97B625CF"><enum>823.</enum><header>Eligibility, enrollments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Auxiliary shall be composed of citizens of the United States and its territories and possessions, and of aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence, as defined in section 101(a)(20) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20))—</text> <paragraph id="id0A31AD6FD0D640B2B66C4946E7A91C6B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">who are owners, sole or part, of motorboats, yachts, aircraft, or radio stations; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id68B797C451134270A4DE88A0F0E51B2E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">who by reason of their special training or experience are deemed by the Commandant to be qualified for duty in the Auxiliary, and who may be enrolled therein pursuant to applicable regulations.</text> </paragraph></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><enum>IV</enum><header>Administration</header> <section id="id1C6CEE11CC9746E2B4A9D9917823F2BC"><enum>401.</enum><header>Advance procurement funding</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">With respect to any Coast Guard vessel for which amounts are appropriated or otherwise made available for vessels for the Coast Guard in any fiscal year, the Secretary may enter into a contract or place an order, in advance of a contract or order for construction of a vessel, for—</text> <paragraph id="ID414389c491404bd0bf5f7e22955c37a1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>materials, parts, components, and effort for the vessel;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID4648c8f89f0f40d59083c3a137e12203"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the advance construction of parts or components for the vessel;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDb107f9ec4dd3429dafc1b94a09126395"><enum>(3)</enum><text>protection and storage of materials, parts, or components for the vessel; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDffdab627a5d241409587618af7e2d0d7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>production planning, design, and other related support services that reduce the overall procurement lead time of the vessel.</text> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" id="ID0ba2d441f77b4ea3846789e3759d1593"><enum>402.</enum><header>Authority to maintain United States polar icebreaking capability</header> <subsection commented="no" id="ID795c67c2cac94fa9b73e8d84ef888e44"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall acquire, either through new construction or the rebuilding, renovating, or improving of existing Coast Guard assets, not less than 2 heavy polar icebreakers for operation by the Coast Guard.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="ID10a31945b8ad4d9bbb9f5ebe10da358f"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Necessary measures</header><text>The Secretary shall take all necessary measures, including the provision of necessary operation and maintenance funding, to ensure that—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="ID9ab6a9d164474e8b94c409decfdc6b18"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Coast Guard maintains, at a minimum, its current vessel capacity, including 1 medium and 2 heavy polar icebreakers, for carrying out ice operations and other Coast Guard missions in the Arctic and Antarctic, Great Lakes, and New England regions; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="ID7e582d6dd3f347b3a19bb45f8fa41b41"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any such vessels that are not fully operational are brought up to, and maintained at, full operational capability.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="ID230c9c3de9974d29a1a559ac97bc0763"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Reimbursement</header><text>Nothing in this section shall preclude the Secretary from seeking reimbursement for operation and maintenance costs of the polar icebreakers from other Federal agencies and entities, including foreign countries, that benefit from the use of the polar icebreakers.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="ID68cee878660346dd93da5faf70fa8f98"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating such sums as may be necessary—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="idB6F587DA426D4F5BA533A28B99372EEE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to acquire the polar icebreakers under subsection (a); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id507F579B159048AEA96F1787AAA8CC43"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to maintain and operate the polar icebreaker fleet under subsection (b).</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="ID3caefd912a4b473c97b1d513ca18c5b7"><enum>403.</enum><header>Forward operating facility</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may construct or lease hangar, berthing, and messing facilities in the Aleutian Island-Bering Sea operating area. The facilities shall—</text> <paragraph id="IDa17b5d4615b4429db5d97312e6388e55"><enum>(1)</enum><text>support aircraft maintenance, including exhaust ventilation, heat, engine wash system, head facilities, fuel, ground support services, and electrical power; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID23ac75cae03c42f28b72eb0bbcdb8322"><enum>(2)</enum><text>provide shelter for both current helicopter assets and those projected to be located at Air Station Kodiak, Alaska for at least 20 years.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="IDb8f24676d5154f37842855561ee3924b"><enum>404.</enum><header>National response functions</header> <subsection id="IDde36bc8ee4bc47f3881a2607a51135c9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 311 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1321">33 U.S.C. 1321</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="ID0ab4dbb2923d4a1ebda9951c1310187a"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text> <subparagraph id="idD4EF968E229242AEAC6FAC65ECB70F26"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (23); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idC73EAB42B66A45C984F00D853D21FC5E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>redesignating paragraphs (24) through (26) as paragraphs (23) through (25), respectively;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID8d5886e15c4d4aec9ac315759436036d"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (j)(2), by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">National Response Unit.</header-in-text></quote> through <quote>acting through the National Response Unit</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id48799E5394784F348700DF61389DF5E7" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="ID345cbd5e56b841a0b9bdf0f8e6b6c958"><enum>(2)</enum><header>National response functions</header><text>The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating—</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDaee6b70bace14757b1377c4150b9c0ea"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (j)(4)(C)(vi), by striking <quote>, and into operating procedures of the National Response Unit</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDcce085e690484befacd76457d0beabdd"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming Amendment</header><text>Section 4202(b) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 1321 note) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="id8635AD2B681A43BBBB511FE2E8E980DB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (2); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id5BC8F0C059344121B297830E2979167D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id4A2BA4126F9749239F4909C334E20E67"><enum>405.</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 210 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2006 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/93">14 U.S.C. 93</external-xref> note) is repealed.</text> </section><enum>V</enum><header>Shipping and navigation</header> <section id="id11717F30CD824557B916A969AAB80A35"><enum>501.</enum><header>Designation of St. George Harbor as a harbor of refuge</header> <subsection id="ID458fdc2767c34d3c8f43c5896c5c3111"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Consultation</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall consult with appropriate Federal agencies and with State and local interests to determine what improvements are necessary to make the harbor at St. George, Alaska, a fully functional harbor of refuge throughout the year.</text> </subsection><subsection id="idA24B26A819D2488E94C1C2749BC70C16"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Purposes</header><text>The purposes of the consultation under subsection (a) shall be to enhance safety of human life at sea and protect the marine environment in the Central Bering Sea.</text> </subsection><subsection id="IDc61a1c5095fd41179d3ae86c7c366978"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 90 days after making the determination under subsection (a), the Commandant shall inform the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives in writing of the improvements necessary to make the harbor at St. George, Alaska, a fully functional harbor of refuge throughout the year.</text> </subsection></section><section id="ID71eb4fd0c1f4495c917aac5c16fdc10a"><enum>502.</enum><header>Protection and fair treatment of seafarers</header> <subsection id="ID752e6b74b4f94560a79546a0e18383c4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9D4CBF3FC78946789BEB0D12DF61E5AE" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC"> <section id="ID135fe42941914ab2b39fc6905d9e2913"><enum>11113.</enum><header>Protection and fair treatment of seafarers</header> <subsection id="ID2f3ecc9ac30447139063d6bf419b26ff"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Purpose</header><text>The purpose of this section shall be to ensure the protection and fair treatment of seafarers.</text> </subsection><subsection id="IDfd9fcd5dfe614f35929ca893932a13f8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Special fund</header> <paragraph id="IDb0fbf743ac5549949362c20460d26184"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>There is established in the Treasury a special fund known as the <quote>Support of Seafarers Fund</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID239f8fe88f194433b92cfee2f3f0d1b6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Use of amounts in Fund</header><text>The amounts deposited into the Fund shall be available to the Secretary, without further appropriation and without fiscal year limitation, to—</text> <subparagraph id="IDd635653efb764493b3b23245240d7c85"><enum>(A)</enum><text>pay necessary support under subsection (c)(1); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID4933481b5087458f96948fdfc429fb99"><enum>(B)</enum><text>reimburse a shipowner for necessary support under subsection (c)(2).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID76a03b4151f44d38a9e0f4ea8bb080cd"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Amounts credited to Fund</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Fund may receive—</text> <subparagraph id="ID4981953f10d54f238a60a147cb4fdc85"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any moneys ordered to be paid to the Fund as a form of credit in lieu of community service under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/3563">section 3563(b)</external-xref> of title 18 to the extent permitted under paragraph (4);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID34b8f6a25463421382ec3044e09798e6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>amounts reimbursed or recovered under subsection (e);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDe204a9c5f49d449d945ac7418c8a4c58"><enum>(C)</enum><text>amounts appropriated to the Fund; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDfe14ed5dd046404abb6b663441c7c9cb"><enum>(D)</enum><text>appropriations available to the Secretary for transfer.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID4b7299d5c8a3484192e022435694f255"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Prerequisite for community service credits</header><text>The Fund may receive credits under paragraph (3)(A) if the unobligated balance of the Fund is less than $5,000,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID725cbe883c7e4d8e868c7bb58ab31952"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Report required</header> <subparagraph id="IDcc6ca2d9ba534830a1674cb136b7d06f"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided under subparagraph (B), the Secretary may not obligate any amount in the Fund in a given fiscal year unless the Secretary submits a report to Congress, concurrent with the President’s budget submission for that fiscal year, that describes—</text> <clause id="ID3e66d463066044c69a46879212226490"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the amounts credited to the Fund under paragraph (3) for the preceding fiscal year;</text> </clause><clause id="ID89c98db5aa1842a39d95db6ed8a75af0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in detail, the activities for which amounts were charged; and</text> </clause><clause id="ID9cff92c7711247b190565c7ee70d6aeb"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the projected level of expenditures from the Fund for the upcoming fiscal year, based on—</text> <subclause id="IDfc6890d884c54799aa1620564bb61bf3"><enum>(I)</enum><text>on-going activities; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID64e23c15cb8c403f81528eae4ec9718f"><enum>(II)</enum><text>new cases, derived from historic data.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID33c5aa9d38da469c94a4c1af7e59a72f"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to obligations during the first fiscal year during which amounts are credited to the Fund.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID46e4cdd4ae9f4bb8829c265d0b45d103"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Fund manager</header><text>The Secretary shall designate a Fund manager. The Fund manager shall—</text> <subparagraph id="IDa92fe2bdf9a44f09bde70bd9726f5441"><enum>(A)</enum><text>ensure the visibility and accountability of transactions utilizing the Fund;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd1459e677af84d13adad769ad10a104d"><enum>(B)</enum><text>prepare the report under paragraph (5);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID2ee3267fa1d84fa4a4c9c95521bbcb12"><enum>(C)</enum><text>monitor the unobligated balance of the Fund; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8DD7E12349774EBCBDAA0A2B343E8A9E"><enum>(D)</enum><text>provide notice to the Secretary and the Attorney General whenever the unobligated balance of the Fund is less than $5,000,000.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDee8d61b7e0034f779262289a19825264"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authority</header><text>The Secretary may—</text> <paragraph id="IDb6fff2a5c4814334a6566e19cc1a9150"><enum>(1)</enum><text>pay, in whole or in part, without further appropriation and without fiscal year limitation, from amounts in the Fund, necessary support of—</text> <subparagraph id="ID85fea07d89a246c79d6e6091ee027319"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a seafarer that—</text> <clause id="idE220ADCDBF6C4B55A497A0AF32FF31BC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>enters, remains, or is paroled into the United States; and</text> </clause><clause id="id69339E464A1E4CC3AF5DCA8EFF6BFDFF"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is involved in an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is related to the administration or enforcement of any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID3e21caf7a80f4255b32b4424aa42665c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a seafarer that the Secretary determines was abandoned in the United States; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID70587b531982440faf9b999c784d2b62"><enum>(2)</enum><text>reimburse, in whole or in part, without further appropriation and without fiscal year limitation, from amounts in the Fund, a shipowner that has filed a bond or surety satisfactory under subsection (f) and provides necessary support of a seafarer, for the costs of necessary support if the Secretary determines that reimbursement is necessary to avoid serious injustice.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDb9d93a1473604b80ad7e6c4fde7b6fb7"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>Nothing in this section shall be construed—</text> <paragraph id="ID55fafecb050c484aaa27a2a90c433da3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to create a right, benefit, or entitlement to necessary support; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDe537b1f8bacc4317a91b7149c749ed15"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to compel the Secretary to pay or reimburse the cost of necessary support.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID7c460588e1074bd3b88de82e602526aa"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Reimbursement; recovery</header> <paragraph id="IDde62a6efaa9b4315ab88814a471b6b26"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A shipowner shall reimburse the Fund an amount equal to the total amount paid from the Fund for necessary support of a seafarer plus a surcharge of 25 percent of the total amount if—</text> <subparagraph id="IDeaa1c108b8224ccdbcb44f7f80600091"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the shipowner—</text> <clause id="id6A77CF36D8B64E15A59A164E019EB91C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>during the course of an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter 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 id="id013032C3EC01453A8B4ACC676D623781"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>subsequently receives a criminal penalty; or</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID89548de888f34d54940a3b3d00561bbf"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the shipowner, under any circumstance, abandons a seafarer in the United States, as determined by the Secretary.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID5d6f3d57fecb4c6d93f93251c54b4786"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Enforcement</header><text>If a shipowner fails to reimburse the Fund under paragraph (1), the Secretary may—</text> <subparagraph id="ID138d833325f04fb1a2e9b75e6ccdb7e2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>proceed in rem against any vessel of the shipowner in the Federal district court for the district in which the vessel is found; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDebff78d1d76b432a92c19159ff5f9c75"><enum>(B)</enum><text>withhold or revoke the clearance required under section 60105 of any vessel of the shipowner wherever the vessel is found.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID6e3160a553544e12a37c28ffdcd99252"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Remedy</header><text>A vessel may obtain clearance from the Secretary after it is withheld or revoked under paragraph (2)(B) if the shipowner reimburses the Fund the amount required under paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID6296da6d97eb4702979135c3dab24a8f"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Bond and surety</header> <paragraph id="ID955fcf4fe91045afa18ebd5f658790e5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Authority</header><text>The Secretary may require a bond or a surety satisfactory to the Secretary as an alternative to withholding or revoking clearance under subsection (e) if—</text> <subparagraph id="idFF034076394143DDA10E97A47D155B2A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the opinion of the Secretary the bond or surety satisfactory is necessary to facilitate an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is related to the administration or enforcement of any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id236AEAE93A3A47A8A7A4484BF579C924"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the surety corporation providing the bond or surety satisfactory is authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/9305">section 9305</external-xref> of title 31 to provide surety bonds under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/9304">section 9304</external-xref> of title 31.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID378733dd67be4110bd1168f6e9ec8ac7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Application</header><text>The authority to require a bond or surety satisfactory or to request the withholding or revocation of the clearance under subsection (e) applies to any investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is related to the administration or enforcement of any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID44b4cdcbbc1b4432863a9f066306c9a3"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="IDec35e48d571e43029e67e7c8965d1dc5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Abandons; abandoned</header><text>The term <term>abandons</term> or <term>abandoned</term> means—</text> <subparagraph id="id30A23E2255E5497382440B76DCBA2D88"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a shipowner's unilateral severance of ties with a seafarer; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idCC535B2F5AF44E3ABF984B57B6A2EA1F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a shipowner's failure to provide necessary support of a seafarer.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID7a6eb6d4bbed4218a3b0759010e257cd"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Bond or surety satisfactory</header><text>The term <term>bond or surety satisfactory</term> means a negotiated instrument, the terms of which may, at the discretion of the Secretary, include provisions that require a shipowner to—</text> <subparagraph id="ID0a5f73b179fc43d2ba3e1c5ddee08689"><enum>(A)</enum><text>provide necessary support of a seafarer who has or may have information pertinent to an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is related to the administration or enforcement of any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID2d791def74d84959a5539cfcf3c5c18f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>facilitate an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is related to the administration or enforcement of any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDcd21ef1dbc06496aa7f4db993aa4eaf1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>stipulate to certain incontrovertible facts, including the ownership or operation of the vessel, or the authenticity of documents and things from the vessel;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID538e18ee173e4f5ba3a04a985571d5ce"><enum>(D)</enum><text>facilitate service of correspondence and legal papers;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDbffa8bc08b774810ac7688b041cd5faf"><enum>(E)</enum><text>enter an appearance in United States district court;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID67f943a4963b4003826e522f8bed617c"><enum>(F)</enum><text>comply with directions regarding payment of funds;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDede28670cb824b9aadc5c1df7ed096ba"><enum>(G)</enum><text>name an agent in the United States for service of process;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDc7816ab025a5443b8c00e8a26d8b9530"><enum>(H)</enum><text>stipulate in United States district court as to the authenticity of certain documents;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDdd4a3dd9417549a78ad9125168beaae4"><enum>(I)</enum><text>provide assurances that no discriminatory or retaliatory measures will be taken against a seafarer involved in an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is related to the administration or enforcement of any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID7b6a0608d36044fb9b208e3f6ddc4d1e"><enum>(J)</enum><text>provide financial security in the form of cash, bond, or other means acceptable to the Secretary; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID27470216f7f84602846687a30710dd92"><enum>(K)</enum><text>provide for any other appropriate measures as the Secretary considers necessary to ensure the Government is not prejudiced by granting the clearance required under section 60105 of title 46.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID9c2f70f8b2cd4f8ea6f3253bef40bb67"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Fund</header><text>The term <term>Fund</term> means the Support of Seafarers Fund established under this section.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID427fbc6a2b8c439ab9d25244831754f8"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Necessary support</header><text>The term <term>necessary support</term> means normal wages, lodging, subsistence, clothing, medical care (including hospitalization), repatriation, and any other expense the Secretary considers appropriate.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID0b07e9779189460788c07fb3d4942f72"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Seafarer</header><text>The term <term>seafarer</term> means an alien crewman who is employed or engaged in any capacity on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID269afcf83bc746ccad1681098420abee"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Shipowner</header><text>The term <term>shipowner</term> means an individual or entity that owns, has an ownership interest in, or operates a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID142a0fb6820e4567a23dd7c27a68f730"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States</header><text>The term <term>vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States</term> has the meaning given the term in section 70502(c), except that it excludes—</text> <subparagraph id="id38017C1BD3B2471F871FEB254C7564D4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a vessel—</text> <clause id="idC63713C409584E22AB618430E18A4828"><enum>(i)</enum><text>that is owned by the United States, a State or political subdivision thereof, or a foreign nation; and</text> </clause><clause id="idE8C82D66C9E745B4AD991DEA07B1ECCE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>that is not engaged in commerce; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6ED00CA3E95E4120866BD3C615E12A61"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a bareboat—</text> <clause id="idF6AEE7337E5043F29AEBFAFB3B0546D5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>that is chartered and operated by the United States, a State or political subdivision thereof, or a foreign nation; and</text> </clause><clause id="id8A2BB9DE3EAC4D5795D588C12A9C72C5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>that is not engaged in commerce.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID0bbe794b6eaf4bc0aadce8119800b5a5"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>The Secretary may prescribe regulations to implement this section.</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="id21F26590A92844F48E50ABE4815CF5DE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The table of contents for <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 inserting after the item relating to section 11112 the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA83FBED60C794F2B8E115041A64A2D28" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC"> <toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="strikethrough"> <toc-entry bold="off" level="section">11113. Protection and fair treatment of seafarers.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="ID83f2e5ee44d642d8bccd890f0ba5e23e"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to the Fund $1,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2012, 2013, and 2014.</text> </subsection></section><section id="ID74d6f68728e04ae3b144c18c16570251"><enum>503.</enum><header>Delegation of authority</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3316 of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="idBF03DC7117A74EBB8BCB9F6529E10C2F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(2)—</text> <subparagraph id="idF3F208032E644C39A30B29387578D67C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (A);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id101D3F2EFA6243DB981249CA0E6AC47C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (B) and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idF8726DFF6A604EA0976250D054036C70"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6DAA500D640D4A37839A23C6E2DDC24E" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="id90CA5D972A58445D8E425899418E8AD4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>if the Secretary of State determines that the foreign classification society does not provide comparable services in or for the government of a country designated by the Secretary of State as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id3CA985D128B641F5B76CAF9D3D5AE0AC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d)(2)—</text> <subparagraph id="id526994A9B1534429BB17110CE4978762"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (A);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7CBC6FEC8BB64159BF4077664BF31C27"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (B) and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id59A9434283044DDAB2F5AE57DA67A025"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id43DA481E9D59446CB08BD29800577C11" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="idF031CDECCC404DE88BD5A60682244B3F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>if the Secretary of State determines that the foreign classification society does not provide comparable services in or for the government of a country designated by the Secretary of State as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id640CCF6415564937A9221049EB35212F"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following—</text> <quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBFDE1883A9624976BAD91C44C75C3F1E" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC"> <subsection id="ID55ecf5a4ad0a4d71929ee565a5b726d0"><enum>(e)</enum><text>The Secretary shall revoke an existing delegation made to a foreign classification society under subsection (b) or (d) if the Secretary of State determines that the foreign classification society provides comparable services in or for the government of a country designated by the Secretary of State as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section id="ID8408c6e0fb584ceda8e2961bf648da9e"><enum>504.</enum><header>Report on establishment of arctic deep water port</header> <subsection id="ID38d678ae54be411eb0912228a293c38d"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text>The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall conduct a study on the feasibility and potential of establishing a deep water sea port in the Arctic to protect and advance strategic United States interests within the Arctic region.</text> </subsection><subsection id="IDf1a8e7a84a6c4624a7d4366cd4dfc09e"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Scope</header><text>The study under subsection (a) shall include an analysis of:</text> <paragraph id="IDbf39215eb6d749ec82ab44522e34ae46"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the capability that a deep water sea port would provide;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID085a98f1acfc4c4cb954ba91ffa03718"><enum>(2)</enum><text>potential and optimum locations for the port;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID057ac9639dc1416aa4c5d1c9a61387f5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the resources needed to establish the port;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID6442fc33fe50448aa7ba41c4d313d6c7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the time frame needed to establish the port;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID793e0bb4e9d64b659d3d9c0ea972bac5"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the infrastructure required to support the port; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID16d6863ff3994227914718c18f217030"><enum>(6)</enum><text>any other issues the Secretary considers necessary to complete the study.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID0c96d928322e41288ed46ac2d547cac2"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commandant shall submit a report on the findings of the study 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>VI</enum><header>Miscellaneous</header> <section id="id75F57BAA19DB4E368FAC2983576CA7FB"><enum>601.</enum><header>Conveyance of decommissioned Coast Guard cutter STORIS</header> <subsection id="IDf97ac69f8b2b44faa15d246f930cc8bb"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall convey the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS to the Storis Museum under subsection (b) if the Commandant determines that the cost to the Federal Government of conveying the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS through the General Services Administration exceeds the cost to the Federal Government of conveying to the STORIS Museum under subsection (b).</text> </subsection><subsection id="IDd6a54af8199b4de894174734179e6dd2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Coast Guard cutter STORIS</header><text>Subject to the cost determination under subsection (a) and after the decommissioning of the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS, the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall convey, without consideration, all right, title, and interest owned by the United States in the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS to the Storis Museum, a nonprofit entity of Juneau, Alaska, if the head of the STORIS Museum agrees—</text> <paragraph id="ID86532f979f5c40f4a758260542245ba7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to use the vessel as a historic memorial;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id01BD977EC117401C9FE5BFBF3FF3B79B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to make the United States Coast Guard Cutter STORIS available to the public as a museum;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idF9A9D3E7E18D46E9B19CF9461E76A1B3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to work cooperatively with other museums to provide education and memorialize the maritime heritage of the United States Coast Guard Cutter STORIS and other maritime activities in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, the Arctic Ocean, and adjacent oceans and seas;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID202f9e07d6844b70857dac15840a03ec"><enum>(4)</enum><text>that the vessel will not be used for commercial transportation purposes;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID602209f9382b46d7872dcca12b2f2a4b"><enum>(5)</enum><text>to make the vessel available to the United States Government if needed for use by the Commandant in time of war or a national emergency or based on the critical needs of the United States Coast Guard;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID4797640ba8d8499c87953088db5eeff8"><enum>(6)</enum><text>to hold the Government harmless for any claims arising from exposure to hazardous materials, including asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), except for claims arising from the use of the United States Coast Guard Cutter STORIS by the Government; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID9a761ed9044142b49663943da79918be"><enum>(7)</enum><text>to any other conditions the Commandant considers appropriate.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id7180C4708DC6429DB4ED8CCD716A71BA"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Treatment of Conveyance</header><text>The conveyance of the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS under this section shall not be considered a distribution in commerce for purposes of section 6(e) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/2605">15 U.S.C. 2605(e)</external-xref>).</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id489E1909BCA5466D92B1C6BF9E7BDD71"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Other Excess Equipment</header><text>The Commandant may convey to the recipient of the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS under this section any excess equipment or parts from other decommissioned Coast Guard vessels for use to enhance the vessel's operability and function for purposes of a public museum and historical display.</text> </subsection></section><section id="idDD117537531C4CA6ACD0156FAC80598B"><enum>602.</enum><header>Coast Guard administrative costs</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1012(a)(4) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2712">33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(4)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>damages</quote> and inserting <quote>damages, including the cost of commercial claims processing, expert services, training, technical services, and other administrative and personnel costs to process claims</quote>.</text> </section><section id="id898328C97EFA42CE806E224619F36506"><enum>603.</enum><header>Oil spill liability trust fund investment amount</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall increase the amount invested in income producing securities under section 5006(b) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2736">33 U.S.C. 2736(b)</external-xref>) by $12,851,340.</text> </section><section id="id27087A7A85E84E77BED70114F6985095"><enum>604.</enum><header>Dry dock operation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">A vessel transported in Dry Dock #2 (State of Alaska registration AIDEA FDD–2) shall not be considered merchandise for purposes of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/46/55102">section 55102</external-xref> of title 46, United States Code, if, during transportation under that section, Dry Dock #2 is connected to electrical, water, compressed air, and wastewater utility shoreside connections located in Ketchikan, Alaska.</text> </section><section id="idEF9CFE60465846CB947DB10A0B1ABD8A"><enum>605.</enum><header>Technical amendments</header> <subsection id="id71DF053F9AB043719D91BAB117D4C733"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Continuation on active duty</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/290">Section 290(a)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended in the second sentence by striking <quote>in the grade of vice admiral</quote> and inserting <quote>in or above the grade of vice admiral</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id56D6F7151EDA477C9B5B103D3B7DA7B4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Failure of selection and removal from active status</header><text>Section 740(d) of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>that appointment</quote> and inserting <quote>that Reserve appointment</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id4F8B3B744B1A4A83935188D7B803A8E9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Table of contents</header><text>The table of contents 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—</text> <paragraph id="idDF0B83CC44E548679169923A6CF86F73"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking the item relating to section 669 and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE7DC956C5305401393682F0EA420E547" style="OLC"> <toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="strikethrough"> <toc-entry bold="off" level="section">669. Telephone installation and charges.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> <continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">and</continuation-text></paragraph><paragraph id="id06A4EBBC96294FDB87B60E06E9642447"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking the item relating to section 674 and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id75508C9C056F4E0382AE3716386A8E2B" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC"> <toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="strikethrough"> <toc-entry bold="off" level="section">674. Small boat station rescue capability.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection></section>

Short title; table of contents

(a)

Short title

This Act may be cited as the

Coast Guard Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013

. (b)

Table of contents

The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

TITLE I—Authorization

Sec. 101. Authorization of appropriations.

Sec. 102. Authorized levels of military strength and training.

TITLE II—Organization

Sec. 201. Coast Guard authority to operate and maintain Coast Guard assets.

Sec. 202. Clarification of Coast Guard ice operations mission.

TITLE III—Personnel

Sec. 301. Acquisition workforce expedited hiring authority.

Sec. 302. Officers recommended for promotion.

Sec. 303. Original appointment of permanent commissioned officers.

Sec. 304. Academy pay, allowances, and emoluments.

Sec. 305. Academy policy on sexual harassment and sexual violence.

Sec. 306. Coast Guard auxiliarists enrollment eligibility.

TITLE IV—Administration

Sec. 401. Advance procurement funding.

Sec. 402. Multiyear procurement authority for Coast Guard National Security Cutters.

Sec. 403. Requirement to maintain United States polar icebreaking capability.

Sec. 404. Forward operating facility.

Sec. 405. National response functions.

Sec. 406. Conforming amendment.

TITLE V—Shipping and navigation

Sec. 501. Designation of St. George Harbor as a harbor of refuge.

Sec. 502. Protection and fair treatment of seafarers.

Sec. 503. Delegation of authority.

Sec. 504. Report on establishment of arctic deep water port.

Sec. 505. Risk analysis of transporting Canadian tar sands.

TITLE VI—Miscellaneous

Sec. 601. Conveyance of decommissioned Coast Guard Cutter STORIS.

Sec. 602. Coast Guard administrative costs.

Sec. 603. Oil spill liability trust fund investment amount.

Sec. 604. Dry dock operation.

Sec. 605. Technical amendments.

Sec. 606. Vessel determinations.

Sec. 607. Alteration of bridge obstructing navigation.

Sec. 608. Documentation of LNG tankers.

Sec. 609. Notice of arrival.

Sec. 610. Homeporting of FSV HENRY B BIGELOW.

Sec. 611. Higher volume port area regulatory definition change.

<enum>I</enum><header>Authorization</header> <section id="id5dbc43c9-ee0e-4a38-b1dd-e964b3c87303"><enum>101.</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header> <subsection id="id0a926f6a-fe2e-4d21-83e7-4c6f11bb40f8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Fiscal year 2012</header><text>Funds are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2012 for necessary expenses of the Coast Guard as follows:</text> <paragraph id="id65917b62-ec3b-48a6-8d24-d3bf0b9cdc74"><enum>(1)</enum><text>For the operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard, $7,077,783,000 of which $24,500,000 is authorized to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ida562b0dd-febe-4bed-84de-9fa4d6962388"><enum>(2)</enum><text>For the acquisition, construction, rebuilding, renovation, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities, vessels, and aircraft, including equipment related thereto, $1,421,924,000 of which—</text> <subparagraph id="id25f40a03-951b-4dc6-b478-6781a77c7233"><enum>(A)</enum><text>$20,000,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2712">33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)</external-xref>), to remain available until expended;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idea9a2986-6964-41d3-b0cb-625e196ff25f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>$642,000,000 is authorized to acquire, effect major repairs to, renovate, or improve vessels, small boats, and related equipment;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idd84c2672-e59a-4549-8239-32b3c9075d0d"><enum>(C)</enum><text>$289,000,000 is authorized to acquire, effect major repairs to, renovate, or improve aircraft or increase aviation capability;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6bd81ccb-35fc-4c6e-9033-43c576126845"><enum>(D)</enum><text>$166,140,000 is authorized for other equipment;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5aacbcd8-1662-474c-bc8c-17cd2670b58b"><enum>(E)</enum><text>$213,692,000 is authorized for shore facilities, aids to navigation facilities, and military housing, of which not more than $14,000,000 shall be derived from the Coast Guard Housing Fund; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idf7ea50a0-ebfb-4009-8dd7-f71a57c1c111"><enum>(F)</enum><text>$110,192,000 is authorized for personnel compensation and benefits and related costs.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id3d0d3622-9777-4386-bd70-3f6aef36f7a6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>For research, development, testing, and evaluation of technologies, materials, and human factors directly related to improving the performance of the Coast Guard's mission in search and rescue, aids to navigation, marine safety, marine environmental protection, enforcement of laws and treaties, ice operations, oceanographic research, and defense readiness, $19,779,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id3eb8f646-704c-4338-88ab-855c327dc78c"><enum>(4)</enum><text>For retired pay (including the payment of obligations otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this purpose), payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefit Plans, and payments for medical and dental care of retired personnel and their dependents under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, $1,440,157,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ideff6d09b-ddf8-41d0-b249-0df171b5b292"><enum>(5)</enum><text>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><paragraph id="id7be925a7-0a3d-4f9e-9d03-1636d4ca3420"><enum>(6)</enum><text>For environmental compliance and restoration functions under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/19">chapter 19</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, $16,699,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id9d9397b9-3393-49c5-b4ee-493c6bd0eb45"><enum>(7)</enum><text>For operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard Reserve program, $136,778,000.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id679dda31-807b-449c-b3a2-06c9d6bf71f0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Fiscal year 2013</header><text>Funds are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2013 for necessary expenses of the Coast Guard as follows:</text> <paragraph id="id2c3f22ed-76bc-4e9d-8d87-b85d1e5a51d8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>For the operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard, $7,077,783,000 of which $24,500,000 is authorized to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id9f939446-5706-4abf-a347-7f9c9716071c"><enum>(2)</enum><text>For the acquisition, construction, rebuilding, renovation, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities, vessels, and aircraft, including equipment related thereto, $1,421,924,000 of which—</text> <subparagraph id="ide199d392-e1dc-490a-be6c-0ecdf839f2e6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>$20,000,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2712">33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)</external-xref>), to remain available until expended;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="iddf7dab10-bc1e-43a9-9716-6dbc8404324f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>$642,000,000 is authorized to acquire, effect major repairs, renovate, or improve vessels, small boats, and related equipment;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7567065a-aa2e-4f32-9181-0d07bf192928"><enum>(C)</enum><text>$289,000,000 is authorized to acquire, effect major repairs, renovate, or improve aircraft or increase aviation capability;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id4558fea6-0d6f-4f91-b048-72ca94421a60"><enum>(D)</enum><text>$166,140,000 is authorized for other equipment;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idda1ed07b-96d7-4a7b-b616-c8913d6e5c4f"><enum>(E)</enum><text>$213,692,000 is authorized for shore facilities, aids to navigation facilities, and military housing, of which not more than $14,000,000 shall be derived from the Coast Guard Housing Fund; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id53898359-7340-4e00-8e85-a9a76b61d975"><enum>(F)</enum><text>$110,192,000 is authorized for personnel compensation and benefits and related costs.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idc25b97f1-fe48-43ac-97cf-5fbbadada67d"><enum>(3)</enum><text>For research, development, testing, and evaluation of technologies, materials, and human factors directly related to improving the performance of the Coast Guard's mission in search and rescue, aids to navigation, marine safety, marine environmental protection, enforcement of laws and treaties, ice operations, oceanographic research, and defense readiness, $19,779,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idc079e5ad-f49b-4b7a-8ec9-ff4287ae40a3"><enum>(4)</enum><text>For retired pay (including the payment of obligations otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this purpose), payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefit Plans, and payments for medical and dental care of retired personnel and their dependents under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, such sums as are required, to remain available until expended.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id73c55b30-56b9-4703-bd2b-49051b29c3b7"><enum>(5)</enum><text>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><paragraph id="ida6b4203a-722a-4328-a8fd-233197315ee0"><enum>(6)</enum><text>For environmental compliance and restoration functions under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/19">chapter 19</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, $16,699,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id1121ec30-ad7c-4198-8234-c73f594e67eb"><enum>(7)</enum><text>For operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard Reserve program, $136,778,000.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="idab0a0f94-4284-40b9-84b0-5ef71d356406"><enum>102.</enum><header>Authorized levels of military strength and training</header> <subsection id="idc6058861-031d-49a2-a708-65a38bf86095"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Fiscal year 2012</header> <paragraph id="id78b051cb-4bba-4a39-81b1-d8c6addeffd7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Active duty strength</header><text>The Coast Guard is authorized an end-of-year strength for active duty personnel of 47,000 for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2012.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idd9fb7ed0-2ced-4e7c-9f3f-b1b8b934e507"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Military training student loads</header><text>For fiscal year 2012, the Coast Guard is authorized average military training student loads as follows:</text> <subparagraph id="id633a1454-0db3-435e-809e-5dc49a05bb33"><enum>(A)</enum><text>For recruit and special training, 2,500 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5a40d107-0c3a-4d36-a398-6f4adaf9e2cc"><enum>(B)</enum><text>For flight training, 165 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id136572a9-e6e1-41af-83c9-76e0a85448f7"><enum>(C)</enum><text>For professional training in military and civilian institutions, 350 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id390f9674-c1ca-4cf4-8465-a8303cc80012"><enum>(D)</enum><text>For officer acquisition, 1,200 student years.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id17615e6a-ce1f-466f-92ec-0babd03cace2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Fiscal year 2013</header> <paragraph id="id53156df6-f87c-4d5b-b720-a5cc656297f7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Active duty strength</header><text>The Coast Guard is authorized an end-of-year strength for active duty personnel of 49,350 for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2013.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id6dd3dbf0-8b20-4bf7-9428-a42c4cbef296"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Military training student loads</header><text>For fiscal year 2013, the Coast Guard is authorized average military training student loads as follows:</text> <subparagraph id="idbbeaf700-a520-41bb-a711-134c85d01f2a"><enum>(A)</enum><text>For recruit and special training, 2,625 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idf719d969-eb03-4d44-b15c-62913c8a463d"><enum>(B)</enum><text>For flight training, 173 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb391ea13-64a7-4dd6-8303-756d8dba6455"><enum>(C)</enum><text>For professional training in military and civilian institutions, 368 student years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9c8cb6fa-2c5d-4ab3-8de1-0c9db08c3f0d"><enum>(D)</enum><text>For officer acquisition, 1,260 student years.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header>Organization</header> <section id="id7e02a904-3934-4382-96f8-baea3acb5443"><enum>201.</enum><header>Coast Guard authority to operate and maintain Coast Guard assets</header> <subsection id="id7e9b6abb-d074-416e-bb5b-05a27eecb9b8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id062a26a4-276a-4dff-91ff-837f4e748014" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC"> <subsection id="id4a1c3ca7-9b55-4c23-8106-cf34cb07c32b"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Operation and maintenance of Coast Guard assets and facilities</header><text>All authority, including programmatic budget authority, for the operation and maintenance of Coast Guard vessels, aircraft, systems, aides to navigation, infrastructure, and any other Coast Guard assets or facilities, shall be allocated to and vested in the Coast Guard and the department in which the Coast Guard is operating.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section id="idd3019c21-264e-4067-97b2-06f6ab0284f9"><enum>202.</enum><header>Clarification of Coast Guard ice operations mission</header> <subsection id="id135d9185-db23-482f-b68e-b20175f01886"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Coast guard provision of Federal icebreaking services</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 section 86 the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idea77b4b0-ff2f-4f63-b407-872a0715b3e6" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC"> <section id="idd475e743-9a25-4c5d-9f5a-d9a5146fb4ef"><enum>87.</enum><header>Provision of icebreaking services</header> <subsection id="ide9a45ebc-013c-46be-8a31-3f2accf320dc"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in subsection (b), the Coast Guard shall be the sole supplier of icebreaking services, on an advancement or reimbursable basis, to each Federal agency that requires icebreaking services.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id70c5c908-ada6-4ee4-bcab-27d453aa32f5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>In the event that a Federal agency requires icebreaking services and the Coast Guard is unable to provide the services, the Federal agency may acquire icebreaking services from another entity.</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="id890ec8ad-abff-4d35-bb67-ee58af55e863"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Priority of Coast Guard missions in polar regions</header> <paragraph id="id597ba43f-64a1-45cc-b241-74f55b9d9589"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Section 110</header><text>Section 110(b)(2) of the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/4109">15 U.S.C. 4109(b)(2)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="id84f7d177-d244-4bc5-9f4e-b5521aa0df12"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>to execute the statutory missions of the Coast Guard and</quote> after <quote>needed</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idcb622ab0-805e-412f-b37a-ba716f74ebd0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>and all budget authority related to such operations</quote> after <quote>projects,</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id5dbe7129-3200-4d53-8a12-85d3240ae397"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Section 312</header><text>Section 312(c) of the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Convention Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/2441">16 U.S.C. 2441(c)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>to execute the statutory missions of the Coast Guard and</quote> after <quote>needed</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id58171fcc-60a6-4645-a4e3-3576bf34c4d1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The table of contents for <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 the item relating to section 86 the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2472c682-7869-434b-9eab-ec297a1e46db" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC"> <toc changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="italic"> <toc-entry bold="off" level="section">87. Provision of icebreaking services.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header>Personnel</header> <section id="idc49706b1-a8f0-47c4-a9a6-33bbeb7de17f"><enum>301.</enum><header>Acquisition workforce expedited hiring authority</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 404 of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010 (124 Stat. 2950) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="id8b2272a4-4780-4097-bb84-09a219a7519d"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(1), by striking <quote>as shortage category positions</quote> and inserting <quote>as positions for which there is a shortage of candidates or a critical hiring need</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id75fe7e69-08b6-47ab-9259-760aa42d5cc7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text> <subparagraph id="id9d41deea-7a24-448a-aa19-4efb4f365fc1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>paragraph</quote> and inserting <quote>section</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idc51ec77c-a7a0-4752-b87a-fbd9a607bdf7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>2012</quote> and inserting <quote>2015</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="id928034fc-0631-4bd9-812e-07026d3fbb94"><enum>302.</enum><header>Officers recommended for promotion</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/259">Section 259(c)(1)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>After selecting</quote> and inserting <quote>In selecting</quote>.</text> </section><section id="id397ba67b-c235-49e9-b1c1-421c778f11f0"><enum>303.</enum><header>Original appointment of permanent commissioned officers</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/211">Section 211</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9c7d9f9d-3c54-4b40-80f1-9b6f1ad32d1b" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC"> <subsection id="id1ddf4188-466c-4dd1-8020-dd244eb4962a"><enum>(d)</enum><text>For purposes of this section, the term <term>original</term> with respect to the appointment of a member of the Coast Guard refers to the member's most recent appointment in the Coast Guard that is neither a promotion nor a demotion.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section id="id444d37ab-ead2-415a-bd44-d0a24c074526"><enum>304.</enum><header>Academy pay, allowances, and emoluments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/195">Section 195</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="id0ab6a262-5a43-4fba-8e60-aa7c91fedd7c"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>person</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>foreign national</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idbb8f20eb-a323-48ac-934e-0d8dd8290dcd"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>pay and allowances</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>pay, allowances, and emoluments</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="id1e137b97-217d-4a74-ac7d-0ac668b09f0d"><enum>305.</enum><header>Academy policy on sexual harassment and sexual violence</header> <subsection id="idae26f822-1057-4487-932c-f0427f37ba45"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/9">Chapter 9</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb40149f9-58fe-475b-98c5-25cafc8cc3a7" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC"> <section id="id6e317d27-be41-4789-8066-ea258957473b"><enum>200.</enum><header>Policy on sexual harassment and sexual violence</header> <subsection id="ida33c237c-f6f0-4e13-a2c1-342d6bbb7670"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Required policy</header><text>The Commandant shall direct the Superintendent of the Academy to prescribe a policy on sexual harassment and sexual violence. The policy shall apply to each member of the Coast Guard Academy personnel. For purposes of this section, the term <term>Coast Guard Academy personnel</term> includes cadets.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id148d6144-4cef-4a48-a600-ca8a0a54e708"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Policy specifications</header><text>The policy under subsection (a) shall include—</text> <paragraph id="idb5c867d0-67d4-4ccc-ab85-cbe9146390b3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>programs to promote awareness of the incidence of rape, acquaintance rape, and other sexual offenses of a criminal nature on and off the Academy reservation;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id672b02d1-5a8e-42ce-82c7-ed6b11b29b00"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the procedure that a victim of sexual harassment or sexual violence on or off the Academy reservation shall follow if the victim chooses to report the sexual harassment or sexual violence, including—</text> <subparagraph id="id1c998a29-57cb-4eb0-baf5-d6d51787c018"><enum>(A)</enum><text>how to report the alleged sexual harassment or sexual violence, including—</text> <clause id="id7182a0a6-b537-4558-b726-20cd36df88eb"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the name and contact information of each person that the victim must contact; and</text> </clause><clause id="id96fc948f-a882-4597-ab71-17e444af791d"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>an option for confidential reporting;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id644b7686-178e-49b2-8fdf-f5dafc7bb9ec"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the name and contact information of each person that the victim can contact for assistance; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb17ee1c3-ea4c-40f2-803b-09939720f949"><enum>(C)</enum><text>how to preserve evidence;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idccad53ba-dc34-49bd-a291-574c742fd8c0"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the procedure for disciplinary action against a member of the Coast Guard Academy personnel who commits sexual harassment or sexual violence;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id764529a0-cba0-4b2f-ab03-3fd567c8643a"><enum>(4)</enum><text>any other authorized sanctions against a member of the Coast Guard Academy personnel who commits sexual harassment or sexual violence; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id0559ceba-d4b7-40ab-a2e1-82485ae88334"><enum>(5)</enum><text>required training on the policy for each member of the Coast Guard Academy personnel, including a specific training requirement for each member of the Coast Guard Academy personnel who process allegations of sexual harassment or sexual violence.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id9af67cf4-67c3-4a21-b10c-4fb896610adc"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Assessment</header> <paragraph id="idc59d5d70-4a16-43d4-9b6f-84992bbd9e53"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Commandant shall direct the Superintendent of the Academy to conduct an assessment during each Academy program year to determine the effectiveness of the policy under subsection (a).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ide8e019d6-f1ea-4ca8-81da-2f820472b443"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Biennial survey</header><text>Each assessment under paragraph (1) that is conducted during an odd-numbered program year shall include a survey of Coast Guard Academy personnel. The survey shall—</text> <subparagraph id="id0a79c0c9-17c7-41b2-86b0-84dda564badf"><enum>(A)</enum><text>measure—</text> <clause id="ide4ea64c4-49a8-43da-981a-456ebb32811f"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the incidence, during that program year, of sexual harassment and sexual violence, on or off the Academy reservation, that were reported under subsection (b)(2); and</text> </clause><clause id="id225b19f5-f513-4a56-a959-923dc4d2a997"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the incidence, during that program year, of sexual harassment and sexual violence, on or off the Academy reservation, that were not reported under subsection (b)(2); and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id87f7a017-1def-4496-bf44-97c26363eb27"><enum>(B)</enum><text>assess the perceptions of Coast Guard Academy personnel regarding—</text> <clause id="idc4ad2d97-6e5c-4b41-a789-3b4d318c50f4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the policy, training, and procedures on sexual harassment and sexual violence;</text> </clause><clause id="id16803210-fab1-4a81-9008-cb3df7f74367"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the enforcement of the policy;</text> </clause><clause id="id0fea5538-0bc1-436a-b9ca-62d1c1db9c00"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the incidence of sexual harassment and sexual violence involving Coast Guard Academy personnel; and</text> </clause><clause id="idf8c1f892-4246-4dd0-8b1d-d698b02cd235"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>any other issues relating to sexual harassment and sexual violence involving Coast Guard Academy personnel, that the Superintendent of the Academy considers relevant.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id61051e0a-5b81-4eef-91cd-0d1c3ab6d66a"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Report</header> <paragraph id="iddfe6be08-0ed3-4cf2-9c65-84739f2f1221"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Commandant shall direct the Superintendent of the Academy to submit a report to the Commandant each Academy program year on sexual harassment and sexual violence involving a member of the Coast Guard Academy personnel that year.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ida570eb3e-fe62-4877-96ce-a829249dfc37"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report specifications</header><text>A report under paragraph (1) shall include—</text> <subparagraph id="ida2bb2d98-9988-4211-a5bf-851127e0f218"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the number of reported incidents of sexual violence, on or off the Academy reservation, involving a member of the Coast Guard Academy, categorized by the type of offence, such as rape and sexual assault;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id024b7bfe-fa99-41db-8530-c18cefa37571"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the number of reported incidents under subparagraph (A) that were substantiated;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id48190bde-f610-4d6f-80e8-5a29f990a72a"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any updates to the policy, training, or procedures on sexual harassment and sexual violence under this section during the Academy program year; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5c5d891b-1144-4b95-8ff0-588d6a2cec98"><enum>(D)</enum><text>a plan detailing the action that will be taken during the subsequent Academy program year to respond to and prevent sexual harassment and sexual violence, on or off the Academy reservation, involving a member of the Coast Guard Academy.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id5d68b0e5-70d0-47ab-9508-4e8dbed98691"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Biennial survey</header><text>Each report under paragraph (1) that is submitted during an odd-numbered program year shall include the results of the survey under subsection (c)(2).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idb907739b-63ab-4843-8dd7-346ab3304045"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Transmission of report</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of receipt of a report under paragraph (1), the Commandant shall transmit a copy of the report and the Commandant’s comments on the report to 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></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="idbe46aefc-9dc6-487f-ae54-0313bf86ef0d"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming Amendment</header><text>The table of contents for <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/14/9">chapter 9</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 199 the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbfa9a2ef-e11e-41f0-b98f-27e82a143db0" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC"> <toc changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="italic"> <toc-entry bold="off" level="section">200. Academy policy on sexual harassment and sexual violence.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section id="ide36dad33-441b-49bf-9945-21378cfc5daf"><enum>306.</enum><header>Coast Guard auxiliarists enrollment eligibility</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/823">Section 823</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9c4fd4e2-ac8e-4b89-b605-23831518cbfb" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC"> <section id="id3e66df83-c823-4633-91fc-eb08e8d6fa97"><enum>823.</enum><header>Eligibility, enrollments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Auxiliary shall be composed of citizens of the United States and its territories and possessions, and of aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence, as defined in section 101(a)(20) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20))—</text> <paragraph id="idfb9010c1-7e3e-4758-9148-bbfa5b0b630f"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">who are owners, sole or part, of motorboats, yachts, aircraft, or radio stations; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idfb6965a8-b227-4b14-bb3a-84d3effe87fb"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">who by reason of their special training or experience are deemed by the Commandant to be qualified for duty in the Auxiliary, and who may be enrolled therein pursuant to applicable regulations.</text> </paragraph></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><enum>IV</enum><header>Administration</header> <section id="ide8057303-a879-439f-9bad-fd72f42e49f0"><enum>401.</enum><header>Advance procurement funding</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">With respect to any Coast Guard vessel for which amounts are appropriated or otherwise made available for vessels for the Coast Guard in any fiscal year, the Secretary may enter into a contract or place an order, in advance of a contract or order for construction of a vessel, for—</text> <paragraph id="idad695001-e302-49c1-8c45-49aeaa4bd6ef"><enum>(1)</enum><text>materials, parts, components, and effort for the vessel;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id1f7065a2-2959-4f9d-99d2-69f734a08838"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the advance construction of parts or components for the vessel;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id761df87e-c607-4c8d-b5ad-326e14dd8fad"><enum>(3)</enum><text>protection and storage of materials, parts, or components for the vessel; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id2f7d0167-0e4b-4db2-8075-9a3a6960388d"><enum>(4)</enum><text>production planning, design, and other related support services that reduce the overall procurement lead time of the vessel.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="idB12B3EDE81FA4609934AA825F2BCA0C2"><enum>402.</enum><header>Multiyear procurement authority for Coast Guard National Security Cutters</header> <subsection id="id7EFA493019674036A3EE2905FB4DD2A4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Beginning with the fiscal year 2012 program year, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may enter, under section 2306b of title 10, United States Code, into a multiyear contract for the procurement of Coast Guard National Security Cutters and government-furnished equipment associated with the National Security Cutter program.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id69A5D130162B402A8622E291849F8AC0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may not enter into a contract under subsection (a) until—</text> <paragraph id="idBB93D83242AB4286BCC3C1AAE1DC7847"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary submits to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a certification that the Secretary has made, with respect to the contract, each of the findings under section 2306b(a) of title 10, United States Code, such as the analysis referred to under subsection (c) of this section; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id588FABCEB50149A0B2C37966FF62EB4E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a period of 30 days has elapsed after the date that the Secretary submits the certification under paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id6804C63A7CE74E96A4DA5B7C57D909E9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Determination of Substantial Savings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In conducting an analysis of substantial savings under section 2306b(a)(1) of title 10, United States Code, the Secretary—</text> <paragraph id="idD85DD1A87C1640C5B1F6590C25E0FAA2"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may not limit the analysis to a simple percentage-based metric; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id53D783159AED49109782980B4F999626"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall employ a full-scale analysis of cost avoidance—</text> <subparagraph id="idCD48C92FA2AE4551B2EF19A61C64120D"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">based on a multiyear procurement; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA58121E8EDE24937AFD7314BB11BB423"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">taking into account the potential benefit any accrued savings might have for future shipbuilding programs if the cost avoidance savings were subsequently utilized for further ship construction.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" id="id091d07e0-c3cc-4b47-b7df-185dba483f83"><enum>403.</enum><header>Requirement to maintain United States polar icebreaking capability</header> <subsection commented="no" id="id488490d7-fc76-47df-b12a-ece2bd6381d5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall acquire, either through new construction or the rebuilding, renovating, or improving of existing Coast Guard assets, not less than 2 heavy polar icebreakers for operation by the Coast Guard to avoid jeopardizing national security, law enforcement, maritime safety, search and rescue, environmental protection, disaster response, scientific research, natural resource protection, marine pollution response and prevention, and fishery enforcement missions.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id40CC61FACC204A7BBB8580D6FDEBB0A2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Necessary measures</header><text>The Secretary shall take all necessary measures, including the provision of necessary operation and maintenance funding, to ensure that—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="id875589FD86774E80808136294C504D64"><enum><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic">(1)</added-phrase></enum><text>the Coast Guard maintains, at a minimum, its current vessel capacity, including 1 medium and 2 heavy polar icebreakers, for carrying out ice operations and other Coast Guard missions in the Arctic and Antarctic, Great Lakes, and New England regions; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id090B76586F6D4EDB95C1B2B7E387527A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any such vessels that are not fully operational are brought up to, and maintained at, full operational capability.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idE74DD8185A674B90AB84DAACAE6133F4"><enum><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic">(c)</added-phrase></enum><header>Current icebreaker maintenance</header><text>Until new icebreakers are acquired under subsection (a), the Commandant of the Coast Guard may not—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="id7C1DD4C656F1416CB0FF46CC8D6B2AEC"><enum><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic">(1)</added-phrase></enum><text>transfer, relinquish ownership of, or recycle the POLAR SEA or POLAR STAR;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id919A3C3BD3554E7599B905AE716FF23A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>remove any part of the POLAR SEA unless it will be installed on the POLAR STAR before it is put in ‘‘active’’ status and the Commandant certifies to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives that it is not possible for the POLAR STAR to function properly without doing so;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="idB1BD103CA80B4229AA98E15CB407C8D4"><enum>(3)</enum><text>change the existing homeport of any Coast Guard icebreaker; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="idC99E69A071224A9C99F73D8C09190150"><enum>(4)</enum><text>expend any funds—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="id155003CB926C42F59D433AECF646C3D5"><enum><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic">(A)</added-phrase></enum><text>for any expenses directly or indirectly associated with the decommissioning of either of the vessels, including expenses for dock use or other goods and services;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id6C79DD94A03944C38122F3E9855866B1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>for any personnel expenses directly or indirectly associated with the decommissioning of either of the vessels, including expenses for a decommissioning officer;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id3D8A984B82734C67BAE2E6DA0CC1087E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>for any expenses associated with a decommissioning ceremony for either of the vessels;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="idA14110219E784794AAFEB94D68953F14"><enum>(D)</enum><text>to appoint a decommissioning officer to be affiliated with either of the vessels; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="idBCAA4A5F93BD4F4B881F30126CAB446E"><enum>(E)</enum><text>to place either of the vessels in inactive status.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id929F5E7695A848DCAA00240B279A8F99"><enum><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic">(d)</added-phrase></enum><header>Reimbursement</header><text>Nothing in this section shall preclude the Secretary from seeking reimbursement for operation and maintenance costs of the polar icebreakers from other Federal agencies and entities, including foreign governments, that benefit from the use of the polar icebreakers.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id315089F0751249789688BB74B155D0B0"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating such sums as may be necessary—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="id3069ce34-61f2-4f52-bf24-49381b955492"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to acquire the polar icebreakers under subsection (a); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id39bcf873-1ca1-4407-8a42-1c02df3c9c70"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to maintain and operate the polar icebreaker fleet under subsection (b).</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id7c978d50-cc31-4fec-afc6-673eeffa48de"><enum>404.</enum><header>Forward operating facility</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may construct or lease hangar, berthing, and messing facilities in the Aleutian Island-Bering Sea operating area. The facilities shall—</text> <paragraph id="id57d7f493-0658-42bd-b3a6-257b6c2405dd"><enum>(1)</enum><text>support aircraft maintenance, including exhaust ventilation, heat, engine wash system, head facilities, fuel, ground support services, and electrical power; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id59f6acb1-8840-453e-bae8-26f3a5f041d8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>provide shelter for both current helicopter assets and those projected to be located at Air Station Kodiak, Alaska for at least 20 years.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="id0adb04d6-92c1-495e-9965-080d1184b471"><enum>405.</enum><header>National response functions</header> <subsection id="id3094e538-29e9-4c14-9076-f83f12753e0f"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 311 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1321">33 U.S.C. 1321</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="id7ee55c70-db36-442b-8a6f-8384517e39cd"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text> <subparagraph id="ida786440d-1235-48a3-a966-cd6ac4dd97f0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (23); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id60e88b5e-53ee-471e-a123-b19b3d3ebf78"><enum>(B)</enum><text>redesignating paragraphs (24) through (26) as paragraphs (23) through (25), respectively;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ida1598a4d-d93e-492b-9e26-1e2611312add"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (j)(2), by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">National Response Unit.</header-in-text></quote> through <quote>acting through the National Response Unit</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6758af5f-14d8-48c6-8e99-105c3d8f045e" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="idcf5c47a8-2f29-44c8-9073-2435eb49fa1a"><enum>(2)</enum><header>National response functions</header><text>The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating—</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="id08b5c9fa-63f4-4934-92f9-d8907b18300a"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (j)(4)(C)(vi), by striking <quote>, and into operating procedures of the National Response Unit</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idffad4384-4f30-46e3-a254-4b8e41e3c794"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming Amendment</header><text>Section 4202(b) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 1321 note) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="idf8794bdb-2dd1-4478-9342-5a7e5f7f9fc6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (2); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idafb67cc8-d391-4b9a-bb0f-2d7e81cb73e3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="idff887ea5-363d-460b-a843-96822c2feb73"><enum>406.</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 210 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2006 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/93">14 U.S.C. 93</external-xref> note) is repealed.</text> </section><enum>V</enum><header>Shipping and navigation</header> <section id="idab943e38-2a39-4d57-b56d-3a27411d67d6"><enum>501.</enum><header>Designation of St. George Harbor as a harbor of refuge</header> <subsection id="ida98b3324-5c00-493c-a245-db49acf250b5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Consultation</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall consult with appropriate Federal agencies and with State and local interests to determine what improvements are necessary to make the harbor at St. George, Alaska, a fully functional harbor of refuge throughout the year.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id41815dbc-2b0a-4257-9246-c5952024a5ae"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Purposes</header><text>The purposes of the consultation under subsection (a) shall be to enhance safety of human life at sea and protect the marine environment in the Central Bering Sea.</text> </subsection><subsection id="idb170f920-e012-4d4c-bc9c-022f074a7ec0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 90 days after making the determination under subsection (a), the Commandant shall inform the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives in writing of the improvements necessary to make the harbor at St. George, Alaska, a fully functional harbor of refuge throughout the year.</text> </subsection></section><section id="idf493471e-d58b-476c-a56c-50d787a1fd3d"><enum>502.</enum><header>Protection and fair treatment of seafarers</header> <subsection id="id91cfb424-c657-4d11-a660-7a5180c264ac"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id02b756a5-429e-4ec8-bb21-82384383cd6c" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC"> <section id="id80dacdd6-3fd4-462d-9b9c-8f07e0f46f16"><enum>11113.</enum><header>Protection and fair treatment of seafarers</header> <subsection id="id257275d0-da2e-4b8e-a578-e9b2678b031a"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Purpose</header><text>The purpose of this section shall be to ensure the protection and fair treatment of seafarers.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id96f1bdbf-4af9-425a-95e2-e2274706edf5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Special fund</header> <paragraph id="id70114b32-7af8-4451-a6c8-fa7626a916a6"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>There is established in the Treasury a special fund known as the <quote>Support of Seafarers Fund</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id6a995ae5-90b9-496c-b429-e4a00e7d751e"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Use of amounts in Fund</header><text>The amounts deposited into the Fund shall be available to the Secretary, without fiscal year limitation, to—</text> <subparagraph id="id4337bfb3-56e5-4023-b0d7-1a5b2af5f413"><enum>(A)</enum><text>pay necessary support under subsection (c)(1); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0e67ae9c-557d-4316-8300-b5e6010b2b8c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>reimburse a shipowner for necessary support under subsection (c)(2).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idb86e634c-062b-4183-b1fc-3128a465ba82"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Amounts credited to Fund</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Fund may receive—</text> <subparagraph id="id1720231e-81c8-4206-a5c5-2db6247156ba"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any moneys ordered to be paid to the Fund in the form of community service under section 8B1.3 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines Manual or to the extent permitted under paragraph (4); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9aa999f5-075a-4ff3-8e0c-80f8498bda33"><enum>(B)</enum><text>amounts reimbursed or recovered under subsection (e).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idda03ae06-6410-4bfe-aebc-20e57c69ad58"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Prerequisite for community service credits</header><text>The Fund may receive credits under paragraph (3)(A) if the unobligated balance of the Fund is less than $5,000,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id0D18082E66C24E5DBF0BEACE580EF8F4"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriation</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated, from the Fund, for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary for the purposes set forth in paragraph (2).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id5a0f3fb4-6093-4804-87da-4339dd70775f"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Report required</header> <subparagraph id="id21693507-7340-40ec-b8f8-ff6f35c70ff1"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary shall submit to Congress, concurrent with the President’s budget submission for a given fiscal year, a report that describes—</text> <clause id="id0c3e2da7-1521-4464-802f-93773c8dd63c"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the amounts credited to the Fund under paragraph (3) for the preceding fiscal year;</text> </clause><clause id="id64252d98-9a38-44dc-af91-eb75387f7aba"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in detail, the activities for which amounts were charged; and</text> </clause><clause id="id7f951988-05bc-4926-a807-02b2ea187f67"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the projected level of expenditures from the Fund for the upcoming fiscal year, based on—</text> <subclause id="idb1352530-269f-4e80-8115-3b7bc2f10fe2"><enum>(I)</enum><text>on-going activities; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="ideca5fcdb-cf89-4212-b6f5-244066c34dbd"><enum>(II)</enum><text>new cases, derived from historic data.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idcf9381d2-0f1b-450c-86cd-c668930332d8"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to obligations during the first fiscal year during which amounts are credited to the Fund.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id3b0b051c-62ac-4b7c-8bf7-269e58476ccc"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Fund manager</header><text>The Secretary shall designate a Fund manager. The Fund manager shall—</text> <subparagraph id="idf8a77fc0-2654-4fa6-8079-4fe6de0cbbae"><enum>(A)</enum><text>ensure the visibility and accountability of transactions utilizing the Fund;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idde0fb915-f1b1-4ecb-8b0e-94f7224cc4e7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>prepare the report under paragraph (6);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idd679e194-c102-4240-9ec0-6035472d21da"><enum>(C)</enum><text>monitor the unobligated balance of the Fund; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id037ceb93-d661-475f-966b-d4c3d021785a"><enum>(D)</enum><text>provide notice to the Secretary and the Attorney General whenever the unobligated balance of the Fund is less than $5,000,000.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id3907e4c2-7df0-46cc-b264-8362b181af5a"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authority</header><text>The Secretary may—</text> <paragraph id="idc884a604-9a7e-49df-bbdc-386bb406826a"><enum>(1)</enum><text>pay, from amounts appropriated from the Fund, necessary support of—</text> <subparagraph id="ide9f89b0f-09f1-4818-a628-27f7e5b51995"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a seafarer that—</text> <clause id="id231bcd8f-2980-46f5-857e-a3a679b721b5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>enters, remains, or is paroled into the United States; and</text> </clause><clause id="idb02ec03e-e4cf-43e4-a978-1ccbb764c31b"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is involved in an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is related to the administration or enforcement of any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0bf64050-be26-4b92-a1e5-36ec894cb00b"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a seafarer that the Secretary determines was abandoned in the United States; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ide3404774-00d9-4642-9ced-4887a39d1a22"><enum>(2)</enum><text>reimburse, from amounts appropriated from the Fund, a shipowner that has provided 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 any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard, for the costs of necessary support if the Secretary determines that reimbursement is necessary to avoid serious injustice.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ide37fc673-142b-45be-8f26-0e4f55065c95"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>Nothing in this section shall be construed—</text> <paragraph id="idc2521b5a-119f-4e27-a753-45d7d2308505"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to create a right, benefit, or entitlement to necessary support; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idb77c5610-09eb-4d50-bb9f-e043a3a7e186"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to compel the Secretary to pay or reimburse the cost of necessary support.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id8204ff69-2046-408c-80d5-811ddfa9e4b3"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Reimbursement; recovery</header> <paragraph id="id9d89b820-34ad-494f-ab50-75cb90f43457"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A shipowner shall reimburse the Fund an amount equal to the total amount paid from the Fund for necessary support of a seafarer plus a surcharge of 25 percent of the total amount if—</text> <subparagraph id="id0fda554f-ee5b-4ced-9250-87036e9df719"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the shipowner—</text> <clause id="idd6299f68-a579-4972-923c-42cb73f77cbc"><enum>(i)</enum><text>during the course of an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter 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 id="id71530e6f-1c53-4a1e-ba76-5c0be24679aa"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>subsequently receives a criminal penalty; or</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id08fb2147-1049-47b5-b2af-44f5973fd1f6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the shipowner, under any circumstance, abandons a seafarer in the United States, as determined by the Secretary.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id16d39e3c-0eb6-4c37-87ac-146f90878f1f"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Enforcement</header><text>If a shipowner fails to reimburse the Fund under paragraph (1), the Secretary may—</text> <subparagraph id="idc7ff5d05-2f97-48e7-8449-7d2fd38951f7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>proceed in rem against any vessel of the shipowner in the Federal district court for the district in which the vessel is found; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2a959030-b9c5-4fbe-bdac-3390c3906aa6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>withhold or revoke the clearance required under section 60105 of any vessel of the shipowner wherever the vessel is found.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id102ea52d-033a-4aa2-9bc1-c7547d249963"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Remedy</header><text>A vessel may obtain clearance from the Secretary after it is withheld or revoked under paragraph (2)(B) if the shipowner reimburses the Fund the amount required under paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idc19e8670-296b-4815-8593-0dd2f1314591"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Bond and surety</header> <paragraph id="id3960733b-532f-451c-bbcc-7673612040ee"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Authority</header><text>The Secretary may require a bond or a surety satisfactory as an alternative to withholding or revoking clearance under subsection (e) if, in the opinion of the Secretary, the bond or surety satisfactory is necessary to facilitate an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is related to the administration or enforcement of any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idA032F6977DE94B4EACFD33B4D0A9A72E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Surety corporations</header><text>A surety corporation may provide a bond or surety satisfactory under paragraph (1) if the surety corporation is authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/9305">section 9305</external-xref> of title 31 to provide surety bonds under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/9304">section 9304</external-xref> of title 31.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id47caa452-1136-417b-8101-081e24ada43f"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Application</header><text>The authority to require a bond or surety satisfactory or to request the withholding or revocation of the clearance under subsection (e) applies to any investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is related to the administration or enforcement of any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id108b5087-6d0a-4275-939d-b331d7e1e178"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="id8235cef9-8eb0-4146-90ce-c2e9641948df"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Abandons; abandoned</header><text>The term <term>abandons</term> or <term>abandoned</term> means—</text> <subparagraph id="idc143d824-f5c3-4c3b-8529-d9f3c0a0d890"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a shipowner's unilateral severance of ties with a seafarer; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6906df4a-cbfb-4c3d-9925-bb1893c9a44e"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a shipowner's failure to provide necessary support of a seafarer.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id68c7c9ac-99ff-41e4-bfb0-b3a8a083a430"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Bond or surety satisfactory</header><text>The term <term>bond or surety satisfactory</term> means a negotiated instrument, the terms of which may, at the discretion of the Secretary, include provisions that require a shipowner to—</text> <subparagraph id="idebc42d5f-17a8-42d2-94c7-5f1e83f3f73d"><enum>(A)</enum><text>provide necessary support of a seafarer who has or may have information pertinent to an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is related to the administration or enforcement of any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2a88773e-ef1b-4d11-94ae-871c386f8a60"><enum>(B)</enum><text>facilitate an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is related to the administration or enforcement of any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id1be013b7-76da-49a6-993b-50faf387fae5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>stipulate to certain incontrovertible facts, including the ownership or operation of the vessel, or the authenticity of documents and things from the vessel;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id769c818d-7520-444a-becc-6d8abf1a7494"><enum>(D)</enum><text>facilitate service of correspondence and legal papers;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9d0d52a2-1535-46f5-883f-e5abe3d54af0"><enum>(E)</enum><text>enter an appearance in United States district court;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5488a224-fb06-4a40-80ed-1ffc4497792e"><enum>(F)</enum><text>comply with directions regarding payment of funds;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idf0e9dcb2-0389-476e-9ad4-d4001e5ca547"><enum>(G)</enum><text>name an agent in the United States for service of process;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide3a430b7-a7bb-4cc2-b1e1-fa5add0cc1a0"><enum>(H)</enum><text>stipulate in United States district court as to the authenticity of certain documents;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id4dffd323-e070-43e3-86b6-5ad078e0495d"><enum>(I)</enum><text>provide assurances that no discriminatory or retaliatory measures will be taken against a seafarer involved in an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter that is related to the administration or enforcement of any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id677f1385-aa32-41a2-af64-9fdab01da73b"><enum>(J)</enum><text>provide financial security in the form of cash, bond, or other means acceptable to the Secretary; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idd2b219a5-d997-46b0-99af-59632fda0d7b"><enum>(K)</enum><text>provide for any other appropriate measures as the Secretary considers necessary to ensure the Government is not prejudiced by granting the clearance required under section 60105 of title 46.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idf1086a46-ed9b-48bc-ba85-31efab5fb8d0"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Fund</header><text>The term <term>Fund</term> means the Support of Seafarers Fund established under this section.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id0a861243-9ec4-41cc-8791-34444b898159"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Necessary support</header><text>The term <term>necessary support</term> means normal wages, lodging, subsistence, clothing, medical care (including hospitalization), repatriation, and any other expense the Secretary considers appropriate.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id59f82dab-9b64-44ec-b2c2-bd5422eaf2f2"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Seafarer</header><text>The term <term>seafarer</term> means an alien crewman who is employed or engaged in any capacity on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id257d62fd-181a-4631-b81b-3d225cbd9545"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Shipowner</header><text>The term <term>shipowner</term> means an individual or entity that owns, has an ownership interest in, or operates a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idebafef10-3c56-43c1-88f8-a719333bdf40"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States</header><text>The term <term>vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States</term> has the meaning given the term in section 70502(c), except that it excludes—</text> <subparagraph id="idce72e96b-89e6-4cd4-8f0b-868d5a7ba224"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a vessel—</text> <clause id="ida29335b2-84ea-4f06-a8aa-308806c001d5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>that is owned by the United States, a State or political subdivision thereof, or a foreign nation; and</text> </clause><clause id="id7d5b8320-cb5d-4603-92ff-1ae8847b1a4f"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>that is not engaged in commerce; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb6296f0c-f927-4818-8af1-f284ebafe811"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a bareboat—</text> <clause id="ida854f0aa-fa9a-4363-826b-35ab36ae0abe"><enum>(i)</enum><text>that is chartered and operated by the United States, a State or political subdivision thereof, or a foreign nation; and</text> </clause><clause id="id19cc1372-3c41-4e3a-8b4c-fa23f6d3b26e"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>that is not engaged in commerce.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idabc9acdd-a463-4097-976b-e79675eba405"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>The Secretary may prescribe regulations to implement this section.</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="idcadedaef-869f-44e9-a1de-4920b1fc4230"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The table of contents for <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 inserting after the item relating to section 11112 the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id98f789bf-72b5-4e28-adc5-bd9c9d4a28ba" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC"> <toc changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="italic"> <toc-entry bold="off" level="section">11113. Protection and fair treatment of seafarers.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="id35fefe70-a33a-4741-8943-e3454771c39d"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to the Fund $1,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2012, 2013, and 2014.</text> </subsection></section><section id="id2a913e4d-3dee-48e3-a346-05d1a87cba08"><enum>503.</enum><header>Delegation of authority</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3316 of title 46, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="id3a388cab-877a-405b-97ea-3369b2612872"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(2)—</text> <subparagraph id="id5b636cc8-ac50-45f9-a33c-f44c2da5d51c"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (A);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idabccc8c5-69ef-4fbe-8498-fe8cd73ed49d"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (B) and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2fe713fb-3ab7-484c-b6b1-6a98a82740d4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb34e1a45-3263-4135-a219-13f10fdc76a7" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="id4b4235f3-1d65-4524-bede-190b76d3c9d7"><enum>(C)</enum><text>if the Secretary of State determines that the foreign classification society does not provide comparable services in or for the government of a country designated by the Secretary of State as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idb46aea23-c9aa-4464-a226-928c3709e84c"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d)(2)—</text> <subparagraph id="id97e6dae9-e302-497e-a3e0-5ba80b940f57"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (A);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide9a667d3-f95e-4e08-8aa3-7315f738fb07"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (B) and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0c275aac-7d9e-4163-bd4d-a2fa15b5b0ee"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id64271b29-d522-4502-a99c-8281e06f5fbe" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="idd5dca2b9-8fee-4693-8efc-e9a8acf4f4ff"><enum>(C)</enum><text>if the Secretary of State determines that the foreign classification society does not provide comparable services in or for the government of a country designated by the Secretary of State as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idae2746ba-d597-4cee-a263-20b93878a35a"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following—</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6c07dc20-a912-4cd1-af59-5838d92a7304" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC"> <subsection id="id5e7cfe6b-b1aa-4fea-a05b-c0dbab167c6b"><enum>(e)</enum><text>The Secretary shall revoke an existing delegation made to a foreign classification society under subsection (b) or (d) if the Secretary of State determines that the foreign classification society provides comparable services in or for the government of a country designated by the Secretary of State as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section id="id78c9a0c3-10db-4f29-8c96-f140e959e0bd"><enum>504.</enum><header>Report on establishment of arctic deep water port</header> <subsection id="ide0ac9065-2a9e-4fe9-816a-6bce1b9d2b82"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text>The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall conduct a study on the feasibility and potential of establishing a deep water sea port in the Arctic to protect and advance strategic United States interests within the Arctic region.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id4de938fb-2a2a-4224-a0ec-c839ecfd521e"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Scope</header><text>The study under subsection (a) shall include an analysis of:</text> <paragraph id="id3ba6a5de-ceed-4538-88c4-dcae9c170043"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the capability that a deep water sea port would provide;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id27c971db-02bb-47f0-a139-68fd24e01fbc"><enum>(2)</enum><text>potential and optimum locations for the port;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id89b48f97-31da-462f-ab1a-8518ef92885e"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the resources needed to establish the port;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idd42792f3-cc70-4eb0-ac2d-307d1e21942a"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the time frame needed to establish the port;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id9ec09842-02c7-4f4d-9a40-f0760b354da9"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the infrastructure required to support the port; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id0f9abe75-d023-40c3-9a43-554dedb3b1f5"><enum>(6)</enum><text>any other issues the Secretary considers necessary to complete the study.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id6564a2b4-af25-4d3e-99a7-88d77007d5c4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commandant shall submit a report on the findings of the study 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><section id="idAAF77FF68B474FBBBF2914FBDB135A72"><enum><added-phrase committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="italic">505.</added-phrase></enum><header>Risk analysis of transporting Canadian tar sands</header> <subsection id="idAC2D0B9C6D994027AC331FC9B8EF9993"><enum><added-phrase committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="italic">(a)</added-phrase></enum><header>In general</header><text>The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall assess the increased vessel traffic in the Salish Sea (including the Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia, Haro Strait, Rosario Strait, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca), that may occur from the transport of Canadian tar sands oil.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id4AE1E94EC198402DA3F55B9D093C973D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Scope</header><text>The analysis required under subsection (a) shall, at a minimum, consider—</text> <paragraph id="idE0D0B3EB70A74A599668D6B31BD555DD"><enum><added-phrase committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="italic">(1)</added-phrase></enum><text>the extent to which vessel (barge, tanker, and supertanker) traffic may increase due to Canadian tar sands development;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idC4C8BC6AA52E461788823974E9880FE8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>whether transport of Canadian tar sands within the Salish Sea is likely to require navigation through United States territorial waters;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id8FF77B46670E436A8AFDA26C0F4D2C6A"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the rules and regulations that restrict supertanker traffic in United States waters, including an assessment of whether there are methods to bypass those rules in such waterways and adjacent Canadian waters;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id9E09D742B35F4FAB841450EA045EBAC7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the rules and regulations that restrict the amount of oil transported in tankers or barges in United States waters, including an assessment of whether there are methods to bypass those rules in such waterways and adjacent Canadian waters;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idAD11EAFFB990449DB0920BD185DFF846"><enum>(5)</enum><text>spill response capability throughout the shared water of the United States and Canada, including oil spill response planning requirements for vessels bound for one nation transiting through the waters of the other nation;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id52D134A141854D2EBB47B3C4603C9F42"><enum>(6)</enum><text>vessel emergency response towing capability at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id0246A1C49EBB4AAAA093144E7E629FA1"><enum>(7)</enum><text>the agreement between the United States and Canada that outlines requirements for laden tank vessels to be escorted by tug boats;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id35EEBDD2997E42C9B66FAE03F80D50FD"><enum>(8)</enum><text>whether oil extracted from tar sands has different properties from other types of oil, including toxicity and other properties, which may require different maritime clean up technologies; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id37A26404FCC14F77BD37CBD3048013D4"><enum>(9)</enum><text>a risk assessment of the increasing supertanker, tanker, and barge traffic associated with Canadian tar sands development or expected to be associated with Canadian tar sands development.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id6A559798F4E74730A938A63046FD5DBE"><enum><added-phrase committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="italic">(c)</added-phrase></enum><header>Consultation requirement</header><text>In conducting the analysis required under this section, the Commandant shall consult with the State of Washington and affected tribal governments. The Commandant is also strongly encouraged to consult with the Secretary of State.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id1E7058A5C6AC4C94A51C8C0E5AF10BFF"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Recommendations</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commandant shall submit recommendations based on the analysis required under this section to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives. The recommendations shall consider a full range of options for the management of increasing maritime traffic and minimizing the increased likelihood of an oil spill, including Federal legislation, promulgation of Federal rules, and the establishment of cooperative agreements for shared funding of spill prevention and response systems.</text> </subsection></section><enum>VI</enum><header>Miscellaneous</header> <section id="id3b2147c6-4460-4247-9f9b-e51b51bea26a"><enum>601.</enum><header>Conveyance of decommissioned Coast Guard Cutter STORIS</header> <subsection id="id59fc0ed3-3ec2-4be4-94d0-1019362b32cb"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall convey the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS to the Storis Museum under subsection (b) if the Commandant determines that the cost to the Federal Government of conveying the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS through the General Services Administration exceeds the cost to the Federal Government of conveying to the STORIS Museum under subsection (b).</text> </subsection><subsection id="id87e36c00-e0a9-4294-bd4b-3d401fa8e45a"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Coast Guard cutter STORIS</header><text>Subject to the cost determination under subsection (a) and after the decommissioning of the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS, the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall convey, without consideration, all right, title, and interest owned by the United States in the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS to the Storis Museum, a nonprofit entity of Juneau, Alaska, if the head of the STORIS Museum agrees—</text> <paragraph id="idc3a764a7-2881-406c-b980-bccb9cff9731"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to use the vessel as a historic memorial;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id44b3b2ef-77e8-4d35-a3e5-532073e8eed4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to make the United States Coast Guard Cutter STORIS available to the public as a museum;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id6a4519ee-7676-41a7-99e6-8e6cd8d091bb"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to work cooperatively with other museums to provide education and memorialize the maritime heritage of the United States Coast Guard Cutter STORIS and other maritime activities in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, the Arctic Ocean, and adjacent oceans and seas;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id7bee5af9-e85b-41b3-b981-8f1bddcb2b24"><enum>(4)</enum><text>that the vessel will not be used for commercial transportation purposes;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id57b9889e-433f-4f28-9d50-a6474b501062"><enum>(5)</enum><text>to make the vessel available to the United States Government if needed for use by the Commandant in time of war or a national emergency or based on the critical needs of the United States Coast Guard;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id7662d846-1721-4dfb-ac0e-d11c6ac11db6"><enum>(6)</enum><text>to hold the Government harmless for any claims arising from exposure to hazardous materials, including asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), except for claims arising from the use of the United States Coast Guard Cutter STORIS by the Government; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id53d58011-c6fc-4877-85d7-5931e1c6c7a4"><enum>(7)</enum><text>to any other conditions the Commandant considers appropriate.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idfcf995cb-699b-4de4-afbe-0398686d95c6"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Treatment of Conveyance</header><text>The conveyance of the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS under this section shall not be considered a distribution in commerce for purposes of section 6(e) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/2605">15 U.S.C. 2605(e)</external-xref>).</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="iddae00574-747e-42c4-aff6-ae16e3e72a6d"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Other Excess Equipment</header><text>The Commandant may convey to the recipient of the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS under this section any excess equipment or parts from other decommissioned Coast Guard vessels for use to enhance the vessel's operability and function for purposes of a public museum and historical display.</text> </subsection></section><section id="id79dd18aa-7a47-4510-8ce4-2daef0876bde"><enum>602.</enum><header>Coast Guard administrative costs</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1012(a)(4) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2712">33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(4)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>damages</quote> and inserting <quote>damages, including the cost of commercial claims processing, expert services, training, technical services, and other administrative and personnel costs to process claims</quote>.</text> </section><section id="id1148da5f-4049-4a54-9e98-bf0b186473f6"><enum>603.</enum><header>Oil spill liability trust fund investment amount</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall increase the amount invested in income producing securities under section 5006(b) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2736">33 U.S.C. 2736(b)</external-xref>) by $12,851,340.</text> </section><section id="id02a22608-094a-481f-8280-43d4f0459471"><enum>604.</enum><header>Dry dock operation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">A vessel transported in Dry Dock #2 (State of Alaska registration AIDEA FDD-2) is not merchandise for purposes of section 55102 of title 46, United States Code, if, during such transportation, Dry Dock #2 remains connected by a utility or other connecting line to pier-side moorage.</text> </section><section id="ideb0a8fdf-5434-4600-a78e-717519a37a5d"><enum>605.</enum><header>Technical amendments</header> <subsection id="id4a99bb2e-16fe-4612-a88a-bf7363ad24ba"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Continuation on active duty</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/14/290">Section 290(a)</external-xref> of title 14, United States Code, is amended in the second sentence by striking <quote>in the grade of vice admiral</quote> and inserting <quote>in or above the grade of vice admiral</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="idadd919b9-b967-4631-9af4-9544d5215344"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Failure of selection and removal from active status</header><text>Section 740(d) of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>that appointment</quote> and inserting <quote>that Reserve appointment</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id4995c9fa-9946-4390-a48e-fc139aaff521"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Table of contents</header><text>The table of contents 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—</text> <paragraph id="idb30be5e4-9d95-4baa-a616-8f3d52ec4e96"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking the item relating to section 669 and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9e673aa1-0b88-4a23-ba81-e63fccc0e4bd" style="OLC"> <toc changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="italic"> <toc-entry bold="off" level="section">669. Telephone installation and charges.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> <continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">and</continuation-text></paragraph><paragraph id="id184018d9-1de3-4219-8afa-edde85bcd9ad"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking the item relating to section 674 and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id19da0bf8-f8d2-4671-8681-566a13b69da8" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC"> <toc changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" reported-display-style="italic"> <toc-entry bold="off" level="section">674. Small boat station rescue capability.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="idB410F103792843E6BFA5A7F537F9C84F"><enum>606.</enum><header>Vessel determinations</header> <subsection id="idC2A8106720514881AE2C2693DE7EE926"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Vessels Deemed New Vessels</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The vessel with United States official number 981472 and the vessel with United States official number 988333 shall each be deemed to be a new vessel effective on the date of delivery after January 1, 2008, from a privately owned United States shipyard if no encumbrances are on record with the United States Coast Guard at the time of the issuance of the new vessel certificate of documentation for each vessel.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id9EFA3B9F4085464F921B7339E5CF0526"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Safety Inspection</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each vessel under subsection (a) shall be subject to the vessel safety and inspection requirements of title 46, United States Code (as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act), applicable to any such vessel.</text> </subsection></section><section id="idAF046BF79AAD42F2851CBA116CE0DBA5"><enum>607.</enum><header>Alteration of bridge obstructing navigation</header> <subsection id="idE4E9BDBC68F047A4AE44663C2EF12152"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Requirement to commence administrative review</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 15 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall certify to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives that the Coast Guard has commenced the required interagency administrative review of the pending proposal to alter the bridge that is unreasonably obstructing navigation and that spans the Kill Van Kull, connecting Bayonne, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id8BAE88FF441E4004AEE4F1165D3E71ED"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Expedited Process</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commandant—</text> <paragraph id="id620EACBA8E814B799A0D31D2E1668480"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall expedite the interagency administrative review under subsection (a); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id0CEEF08C53574734991853A2F862F310"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may use any resources offered to the Coast Guard by the bridge owner for the purpose of paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id20B18E20AB704719BB77D6CE470A824B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Deadline for Completion</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 31, 2011, the Coast Guard shall complete the interagency administrative review under subsection (a).</text> </subsection></section><section id="id57A8B5169C8844DEA066EE869AB595BA"><enum>608.</enum><header>Documentation of LNG tankers</header> <subsection id="idDD29BF2676C443AAAE9C23D23B4F6291"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding sections 12112 and 12132 and chapter 551 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 each of the following vessels:</text> <paragraph id="idCB8F156D2D204D8E853453268D25FA5F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">LNG GEMINI (United States official number 595752).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id2AEE3396A6184A02B3BADE693F2336F8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">LNG LEO (United States official number 595753).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idE2C4DCD37ED54764B4F5EFD6ED59E5FE"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">LNG VIRGO (United States official number 595755).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id45FE2B78805441C6B9A2F575229B6F9C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation on Operation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coastwise trade authorized under subsection (a) shall be limited to carriage of natural gas, as that term is defined in section 3(13) of the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 (33 U.S.C. 1502(13)).</text> </subsection><subsection id="id0C6D929E36EF47C3BB07B142FE279A0C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Termination of Effectiveness of Endorsements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The coastwise endorsement issued under subsection (a) for a vessel shall expire on the date of the sale of the vessel by the owner of the vessel on the date of enactment of this Act to a person who is not related by ownership or control to such owner.</text> </subsection></section><section id="id2A06818A00F74DB0A680312E4B40224A"><enum>609.</enum><header>Notice of arrival</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The regulations required under section 109(a) of the Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006 (33 U.S.C. 1223 note) dealing with notice of arrival requirements for foreign vessels on the Outer Continental Shelf shall not apply to a vessel documented under section 12105 of title 46, United States Code, unless the vessel arrives from a foreign port or place.</text> </section><section id="idCFCD18D60ACC4C0D8D8B0760B9751222"><enum>610.</enum><header>Homeporting of FSV HENRY B BIGELOW</header> <subsection id="id2E886BCAA5D2421881E3BB30ABECB1F4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Deadline for Final Decision regarding the Homeport for the FSV Henry B Bigelow</header> <paragraph id="idE2231D7BD7494F2CAFE2229D1091C004"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall make a final decision regarding the homeport for the FSV HENRY B BIGELOW.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idBE30E59C48B943D9BABE97AE0458CD48"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Advance notice to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 45 days before the date that the final decision under paragraph (1) is implemented, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representative—</text> <subparagraph id="idA62C8F09E00347459F019FB0F08EBA34"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">notification of the proposed final decision; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id4065B8E82E5D45D8A4B355D342EE828D"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an explanation of—</text> <clause id="id8E78F4BB28C346BD89135785F0BD8DB7"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the rationale for the homeport selected in the proposed final decision; and</text> </clause><clause id="id0B3CFC000E604296AAE142749091977C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">how the proposed final decision addresses the considerations under subsection (b).</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idEAB31F6AA9324CE990EAF9590268B051"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Considerations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In making a final decision under subsection (a), the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall consider—</text> <paragraph id="id2CA5CA7F5144488D97A5990715065161"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the use of existing infrastructure owned by the Administration;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id7837964913EC40F3AB2C85B5809F3C37"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the proximity of the proposed homeport to Federal research facilities and to programs that could directly benefit from the research conducted by the FSV HENRY B BIGELOW, including the Administration’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id2F665D002B3B4974B276E02F38DA18E5"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the proximity of the proposed homeport to non-Federal fisheries research partners and vessel and equipment repair and support infrastructure;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id5961060F7A8F40ED9A6A9A9C55D7D067"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the prior homeport location of the FSV ALBATROSS, which the FSV HENRY B BIGELOW is replacing; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id43AC666092C7422CA3BEB6FB761C1CD5"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the historical and cultural significance of the presence of a Federal fisheries research vessel at the proposed homeport.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idF4169BBC5D2541308A2B3A31B78E9A5A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Progress Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives a report on the Administrator's progress in making a final decision under subsection (a).</text> </subsection></section><section id="id390FA44DF12D4E359C221B2EEDFFA574"><enum><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic">611.</added-phrase></enum><header>Higher volume port area regulatory definition change</header> <subsection id="id5253242B14134E08B72A4C73AE3D8615"><enum><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic">(a)</added-phrase></enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) of section 710 of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–281; 124 Stat. 2986) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSCM00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6CAD326BBFD24EB5846E6087A5491962" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC"> <subsection id="id7238625F89444B4B981F5FBE5789E44B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Higher volume ports</header> <paragraph id="id74289A2D1E42432EA56F1BC58691CFD8"><enum><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic">(1)</added-phrase></enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the requirements of subparts D, F, and G of part 155 of title 33, Code of Federal Regulations, that apply to the higher volume port area for the Strait of Juan de Fuca at Port Angeles, Washington (including any water area within 50 nautical miles seaward), to and including Puget Sound, shall be deemed to apply, in the same manner, and to the same extent, to the Strait of Juan de Fuca at Cape Flattery, Washington (including any water area within 50 nautical miles seaward), to and including Puget Sound.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id41EB824D56C0485BBB47F7BDBA7FAE6F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This subsection shall take effect on July 1, 2012.</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="idC7E90EEB831B48D09F6FA001616097FC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b) of such section is amended by striking ‘‘the modification of the higher volume port area definition required by subsection (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘higher volume port requirements made applicable under subsection (a)’’.</text> </subsection></section>

January 26, 2012

Reported with an amendment