[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3086 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3086

To reauthorize and amend the Marine Debris Act to promote international 
         action to reduce marine debris and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 22, 2016

  Mr. Booker 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 reauthorize and amend the Marine Debris Act to promote international 
         action to reduce marine debris and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Marine Debris Act Amendments of 
2016''.

SEC. 2. NOAA MARINE DEBRIS PROGRAM.

    Subsection (b) of section 3 of the Marine Debris Act (33 U.S.C. 
1952(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (5)(C), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) work with other Federal agencies to address both 
        land- and sea-based sources of marine debris; and
            ``(7) work with the Department of State and other Federal 
        agencies to promote international action to reduce the 
        incidence of marine debris.''.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 9 of the Marine Debris Act (33 U.S.C. 1958) is amended to 
read as follows:

``SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    ``There are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year 2017 
through 2021--
            ``(1) to the Administrator for carrying out sections 3 and 
        6, $10,000,000, of which no more than 10 percent may be for 
        administrative costs; and
            ``(2) to the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast 
        Guard is operating, for the use of the Commandant of the Coast 
        Guard in carrying out section 4, $2,000,000, of which no more 
        than 10 percent may be used for administrative costs.''.
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