[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
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[H.R. 5531 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5531

      To amend title 46, United States Code, to improve maritime 
                transportation, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 20, 2016

  Mr. Hunter (for himself and Mr. Garamendi) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
      To amend title 46, United States Code, to improve maritime 
                transportation, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Miscellaneous 
Maritime Transportation Amendments Act of 2016''.
    (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as 
follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
               TITLE I--POSITION, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING

Sec. 101. Short title.
Sec. 102. Backup global positioning system.
                        TITLE II--OTHER MATTERS

Sec. 201. Deadline for compliance with alternate safety compliance 
                            program.
Sec. 202. Oil spill disbursements auditing and report.
Sec. 203. Vessel ``Apollonia''.
Sec. 204. Reimbursement for non-Federal construction costs of certain 
                            aids to navigation.

               TITLE I--POSITION, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING

SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE.

    This title may be cited as the ``National Positioning, Navigation, 
and Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2016''.

SEC. 102. BACKUP GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM.

    (a) In General.--Subtitle VIII of title 46, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:

            ``CHAPTER 807--POSITION, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING

``Sec.
``80701. Land-based complementary and backup system.
``Sec. 80701. Land-based complementary and backup system
    ``(a) In General.--Subject to the availability of appropriations, 
the Commandant of the Coast Guard, in consultation with the Secretary 
of Transportation, shall provide for the establishment, sustainment, 
and operation of a reliable land-based positioning, navigation, and 
timing system to provide a complement to and backup for the Global 
Positioning System (in this section referred to as `GPS') to ensure the 
availability of uncorrupted and nondegraded positioning, navigation, 
and timing signals for military and civilian users in the event that 
GPS signals are corrupted, degraded, unreliable, or otherwise 
unavailable.
    ``(b) Requirements.--The system established under subsection (a) 
shall--
            ``(1) be wireless;
            ``(2) be terrestrial;
            ``(3) provide wide-area coverage;
            ``(4) deliver a precise, high-power 100 kilohertz signal;
            ``(5) be synchronized with coordinated universal time;
            ``(6) be resilient and extremely difficult to disrupt or 
        degrade;
            ``(7) be able to penetrate underground and inside 
        buildings;
            ``(8) be capable of ready deployment to remote locations;
            ``(9) take full advantage of the infrastructure of the 
        existing, unused Government long-range navigation system 
        (commonly known as `LORAN');
            ``(10) incorporate the expertise of the private sector with 
        respect to development, building, and operation;
            ``(11) work in concert with and complement any other 
        similar positioning, navigation, and timing systems, including 
        enhanced long-range navigation systems;
            ``(12) be available for use by Federal and non-Federal 
        government agencies for public purposes at no cost; and
            ``(13) incorporate such other requirements determined 
        necessary by the Commandant.
    ``(c) Implementation Date.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this section, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, in 
consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall provide to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate a plan to ensure that the system required 
under this section is fully operational not later than 3 years after 
such date of enactment.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The analysis for subtitle VIII of title 
46, United States Code, is amended by adding after the item relating to 
chapter 805 the following:

``807. Position, Navigation, and Timing.....................   80701''.

                        TITLE II--OTHER MATTERS

SEC. 201. DEADLINE FOR COMPLIANCE WITH ALTERNATE SAFETY COMPLIANCE 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 4503(d)(1) of title 46, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``After January 1, 2020,'' and all that follows through ``the 
Secretary,'' and inserting ``For each of fishing vessels, fish 
processing vessels, and fish tender vessels, after the later of January 
1, 2020, or the end of the 3-year period beginning on the date on which 
the Secretary prescribes an alternate safety compliance program 
developed in cooperation with the commercial fishing industry for such 
a vessel, such a vessel shall comply with the applicable alternate 
safety compliance program''.

SEC. 202. OIL SPILL DISBURSEMENTS AUDITING AND REPORT.

    Section 1012 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712) is 
amended--
            (1) by repealing subsection (g);
            (2) in subsection (l)(1), by striking ``Within one year 
        after the date of enactment of the Coast Guard Authorization 
        Act of 2010, and annually thereafter,'' and inserting ``Each 
        year, on the date on which the President submits to Congress a 
        budget under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code,''; 
        and
            (3) by amending subsection (l)(2) to read as follows:
            ``(2) Contents.--The report shall include--
                    ``(A) a list of each disbursement of $500,000 or 
                more from the Fund in the preceding fiscal year, 
                including disbursements to Federal agencies;
                    ``(B) a list of each disbursement of $500,000 or 
                more from the Fund in the fiscal year preceding the 
                preceding fiscal year that has not been reimbursed by a 
                responsible party; and
                    ``(C) a description of how each use of the Fund 
                described in subparagraph (A) or (B) meets the 
                requirements of subsection (a).''.

SEC. 203. VESSEL ``APOLLONIA''.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the 
department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall issue a 
certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the 
vessel Apollonia (United States official number 1266527).

SEC. 204. REIMBURSEMENT FOR NON-FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION COSTS OF CERTAIN 
              AIDS TO NAVIGATION.

    (a) In General.--Subject to the availability of appropriations and 
in accordance with this section, the Commandant of the Coast Guard may 
reimburse a non-Federal entity for costs incurred by the entity for a 
covered project.
    (b) Conditions.--The Commandant may not provide reimbursement under 
subsection (a) with respect to a covered project unless--
            (1) the need for the project is a result of the completion 
        of construction with respect to a federally authorized 
        navigation channel;
            (2) the Commandant determines, through an appropriate 
        navigation safety analysis, that the project is necessary to 
        ensure safe marine transportation;
            (3) the Commandant approves the design of the project to 
        ensure that it meets all applicable Coast Guard aid to 
        navigation standards and requirements;
            (4) the non-Federal entity agrees to transfer the project 
        upon completion to the Coast Guard to be operated and 
        maintained by the Coast Guard as a Federal aid to navigation;
            (5) all permits required for the project under Federal and 
        State law have been issued; and
            (6) the Commandant determines that the project satisfies 
        such additional requirements as may be established by the 
        Commandant.
    (c) Limitations.--Reimbursements under subsection (a) may not 
exceed the following:
            (1) For a single covered project, $5,000,000.
            (2) For all covered projects in a single fiscal year, 
        $5,000,000.
    (d) Expiration.--The authority granted under this section shall 
expire on the date that is 4 years after the date of enactment of this 
section.
    (e) Covered Project Defined.--In this section, the term ``covered 
project'' means a project carried out by a non-Federal entity to 
construct and establish an aid to navigation that facilitates safe and 
efficient marine transportation on a federally authorized navigation 
channel.
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