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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. 

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 

A BILL 

To amend title 46, United States Code, to improve maritime 

transportation, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

4 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 

5 ‘‘Miscellaneous Maritime Transportation Amendments Act 

6 of 2016’’. 

7 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 

8 this Act is as follows: 

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 

TITLE I—POSITION, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING 

Sec. 101. Short title. 


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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. 

1 TITLE I—POSITION, 

2 NAVIGATION, AND TIMING 

3 SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This title may be cited as the ‘‘National Positioning, 

5 Navigation, and Timing Resilience and Security Act of 

6 2016’’. 

7 SEC. 102. BACKUP GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle VIII of title 46, United 

9 States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol10 lowing: 

11 ‘‘CHAPTER 807—POSITION, NAVIGATION, 

12 AND TIMING 

‘‘Sec. 

‘‘80701. Land-based complementary and backup system. 

13 ‘‘§ 80701. Land-based complementary and backup sys14 tem 

15 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the availability of ap16 propriations, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, in con17 sultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall pro18 vide for the establishment, sustainment, and operation of 

19 a reliable land-based positioning, navigation, and timing 

20 system to provide a complement to and backup for the 


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1 Global Positioning System (in this section referred to as 

2 ‘GPS’) to ensure the availability of uncorrupted and non3 degraded positioning, navigation, and timing signals for 

4 military and civilian users in the event that GPS signals 

5 are corrupted, degraded, unreliable, or otherwise unavail6 able. 

7 ‘‘(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The system established under 

8 subsection (a) shall— 

9 ‘‘(1) be wireless; 

10 ‘‘(2) be terrestrial; 

11 ‘‘(3) provide wide-area coverage; 

12 ‘‘(4) deliver a precise, high-power 100 kilohertz 

13 signal; 

14 ‘‘(5) be synchronized with coordinated universal 

15 time; 

16 ‘‘(6) be resilient and extremely difficult to dis17 rupt or degrade; 

18 ‘‘(7) be able to penetrate underground and in19 side buildings; 

20 ‘‘(8) be capable of ready deployment to remote 

21 locations; 

22 ‘‘(9) take full advantage of the infrastructure of 

23 the existing, unused Government long-range naviga24 tion system (commonly known as ‘LORAN’); 


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1 ‘‘(10) incorporate the expertise of the private 

2 sector with respect to development, building, and op3 eration; 

4 ‘‘(11) work in concert with and complement any 

5 other similar positioning, navigation, and timing sys6 tems, including enhanced long-range navigation sys7 tems; 

8 ‘‘(12) be available for use by Federal and non9 Federal government agencies for public purposes at 

10 no cost; and 

11 ‘‘(13) incorporate such other requirements de12 termined necessary by the Commandant. 

13 ‘‘(c) IMPLEMENTATION DATE.—Not later than 180 

14 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Com15 mandant of the Coast Guard, in consultation with the Sec16 retary of Transportation, shall provide to the Committee 

17 on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 

18 Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, 

19 Science, and Transportation of the Senate a plan to en20 sure that the system required under this section is fully 

21 operational not later than 3 years after such date of enact22 ment.’’. 

23 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The analysis for sub24 title VIII of title 46, United States Code, is amended by 


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1 adding after the item relating to chapter 805 the fol2 lowing: 

‘‘807. Position, Navigation, and Timing ...................................80701’’. 

3 TITLE II—OTHER MATTERS 

4 SEC. 201. DEADLINE FOR COMPLIANCE WITH ALTERNATE 

5 SAFETY COMPLIANCE PROGRAM. 

6 Section 4503(d)(1) of title 46, United States Code, 

7 is amended by striking ‘‘After January 1, 2020,’’ and all 

8 that follows through ‘‘the Secretary,’’ and inserting ‘‘For 

9 each of fishing vessels, fish processing vessels, and fish 

10 tender vessels, after the later of January 1, 2020, or the 

11 end of the 3-year period beginning on the date on which 

12 the Secretary prescribes an alternate safety compliance 

13 program developed in cooperation with the commercial 

14 fishing industry for such a vessel, such a vessel shall com15 ply with the applicable alternate safety compliance pro16 gram’’. 

17 SEC. 202. OIL SPILL DISBURSEMENTS AUDITING AND RE18 PORT. 

19 Section 1012 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 

20 U.S.C. 2712) is amended— 

21 (1) by repealing subsection (g); 

22 (2) in subsection (l)(1), by striking ‘‘Within one 

23 year after the date of enactment of the Coast Guard 

24 Authorization Act of 2010, and annually thereafter,’’ 

25 and inserting ‘‘Each year, on the date on which the 


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1 President submits to Congress a budget under sec2 tion 1105 of title 31, United States Code,’’; and 

3 (3) by amending subsection (l)(2) to read as 

4 follows: 

5 ‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—The report shall include— 

6 ‘‘(A) a list of each disbursement of 

7 $500,000 or more from the Fund in the pre8 ceding fiscal year, including disbursements to 

9 Federal agencies; 

10 ‘‘(B) a list of each disbursement of 

11 $500,000 or more from the Fund in the fiscal 

12 year preceding the preceding fiscal year that 

13 has not been reimbursed by a responsible party; 

14 and 

15 ‘‘(C) a description of how each use of the 

16 Fund described in subparagraph (A) or (B) 

17 meets the requirements of subsection (a).’’. 

18 SEC. 203. VESSEL ‘‘APOLLONIA’’. 

19 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Sec20 retary of the department in which the Coast Guard is op21 erating shall issue a certificate of documentation with a 

22 coastwise endorsement for the vessel Apollonia (United 

23 States official number 1266527). 


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1 SEC. 204. REIMBURSEMENT FOR NON-FEDERAL CONSTRUC2 TION COSTS OF CERTAIN AIDS TO NAVIGA3 TION. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the availability of ap5 propriations and in accordance with this section, the Com6 mandant of the Coast Guard may reimburse a non-Fed7 eral entity for costs incurred by the entity for a covered 

8 project. 

9 (b) CONDITIONS.—The Commandant may not pro10 vide reimbursement under subsection (a) with respect to 

11 a covered project unless— 

12 (1) the need for the project is a result of the 

13 completion of construction with respect to a federally 

14 authorized navigation channel; 

15 (2) the Commandant determines, through an 

16 appropriate navigation safety analysis, that the 

17 project is necessary to ensure safe marine transpor18 tation; 

19 (3) the Commandant approves the design of the 

20 project to ensure that it meets all applicable Coast 

21 Guard aid to navigation standards and require22 ments; 

23 (4) the non-Federal entity agrees to transfer 

24 the project upon completion to the Coast Guard to 

25 be operated and maintained by the Coast Guard as 

26 a Federal aid to navigation; 


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1 (5) all permits required for the project under 

2 Federal and State law have been issued; and 

3 (6) the Commandant determines that the 

4 project satisfies such additional requirements as may 

5 be established by the Commandant. 

6 (c) LIMITATIONS.—Reimbursements under sub7 section (a) may not exceed the following: 

8 (1) For a single covered project, $5,000,000. 

9 (2) For all covered projects in a single fiscal 

10 year, $5,000,000. 

11 (d) EXPIRATION.—The authority granted under this 

12 section shall expire on the date that is 4 years after the 

13 date of enactment of this section. 

14 (e) COVERED PROJECT DEFINED.—In this section, 

15 the term ‘‘covered project’’ means a project carried out 

16 by a non-Federal entity to construct and establish an aid 

17 to navigation that facilitates safe and efficient marine 

18 transportation on a federally authorized navigation chan19 nel. 

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