[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 30 (Monday, February 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7367-7368]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-3295]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army


Notice of Availability of the ``Annual Report to Congress on the 
Status of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for Fiscal Year 1998''

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 on the Status of the 
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for Fiscal Year 1998.'' A copy of the 
report may be obtained free of charge by contacting Mr. James D. 
Hilton. The report is also available on the Corps web site at http://www.wrsc.usace.army.mil/iwr. Click on Products and then click on 
reports.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Harbor Maintenance Fee was authorized 
under Sections 1401 and 1402 of the Water Resources Development Act of 
1986, Public Law 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, Public Law 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, 
Public Law 104-303, expanded the use of Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 
monies to pay Federal expenditures for construction of dredged material 
disposal facilities necessary 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, 
Public Law 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.

    Dated: February 8, 2000.
Eric R. Potts,
Colonel, Corps of Engineers, Executive Director for Civil Works.
[FR Doc. 00-3295 Filed 2-11-00; 8:45 am]
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