[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 74 (Monday, April 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19139-19140]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-9732]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers


Notice of Availability of the ``Annual Report to Congress on the 
Status of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for Fiscal Year 1997''

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the general public of the 
availability of the ``Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 1997.'' 
Single copies of the report may be obtained free of charge.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. James D. Hilton, Operations 
Division, Office of the Chief of Engineers at (202) 761-8830 or fax 
(202) 761-1685.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Harbor Maintenance Fee was authorized 
under Sections 1401 and 1402 of the Water Resources Development Act of 
1986, Pub. L. 99-662. This law imposed a 0.04 percent fee on the value 
of commercial cargo loaded (exports and domestic cargo) or unloaded 
(imports) at ports which have had Federal expenditures made on their 
behalf by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1977. Section 11214 of 
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, Pub. L. 101-580, 
increased the Harbor Maintenance Fee to 0.125 percent, which went into 
effect on January 1, 1991. Harbor maintenance Trust Fund monies are 
used to pay up to 100 percent of the Corps eligible Operations and 
Maintenance expenditures for the maintenance of commercial harbors and 
channels. Section 201 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996, 
Pub. L. 104-303, expanded the use of Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 
monies to pay Federal expenditures for construction of dredged material 
disposal facilities necessay for the operation and maintenance of any 
harbor or inland harbor; dredging and disposing of contaminated 
sediments that are in or that affect the maintenance of Federal 
navigation channels; mitigating for impacts resulting from Federal 
navigation operation and maintenance activities; and operating and 
maintaining dredged material disposal facilities.
    Section 330 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1992, Pub. 
L. 102-580, requires that the President provide an Annual Report to 
Congress on the Status of the Trust Fund. The release of this report is 
in compliance with this legislation.


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    Dated: April 8, 1999.
Eric R. Potts,
Colonel, Corps of Engineers, Executive Director of Civil Works.
[FR Doc. 99-9732 Filed 4-16-99; 8:45 am]
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