[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1609 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1609

 To amend title 14, United States Code, to authorize the Commandant of 
 the United States Coast Guard to lease tidelands and submerged lands 
  under control of the Coast Guard for periods longer than five years.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 29, 2013

  Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Mr. Begich) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 14, United States Code, to authorize the Commandant of 
 the United States Coast Guard to lease tidelands and submerged lands 
  under control of the Coast Guard for periods longer than five years.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Submerged Lands 
Transportation Development Act''.

SEC. 2. LEASE OF TIDELANDS AND SUBMERGED LANDS UNDER CONTROL OF THE 
              COAST GUARD FOR PERIODS LONGER THAN FIVE YEARS.

    Section 93 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following new subsection:
    ``(f) Lease of Tidelands and Submerged Lands.--(1) Notwithstanding 
subsection (a)(13), a lease described in paragraph (2) may be for such 
term in excess of five years as the Commandant considers appropriate.
    ``(2) A lease referred to in paragraph (1) is a lease of the 
following:
            ``(A) Tidelands under the control of the Coast Guard.
            ``(B) Submerged lands under the control of the Coast 
        Guard.''.
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