[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4025 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4025

    To authorize appropriations for the maritime environmental and 
                     technical assistance program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 22, 2020

  Mr. Markey 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 authorize appropriations for the maritime environmental and 
                     technical assistance program.

    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 ``Expanding the Maritime Environmental 
and Technical Assistance Program''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE MARITIME ENVIRONMENTAL 
              AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--There are authorized to be appropriated to the 
Department of Transportation for fiscal year 2021, for expenses 
necessary to support the maritime environmental and technical 
assistance program under section 50307 of title 46, United States Code, 
$6,000,000, which shall remain available until expended, of which 
$3,000,000 shall be used for activities related to technologies that 
support port and vessel air emissions reductions and to support zero 
emissions technologies.
    (b) Emissions.--In this section the term ``emissions'' means ``air 
pollutants'', as defined in section 302(g) of the Clean Air Act (42 
U.S.C. 7602(g)).
    (c) Uses.--Activities conducted pursuant to the authorization under 
this section shall be used to inform the policy decisions of the United 
States related to domestic regulations and to the International 
Maritime Organization, to the extent such activities are relevant.
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