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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 412 

To ensure that amounts credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 

are used for harbor maintenance. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 17, 2011 

Mr. LEVIN (for himself, Mrs. HUTCHISON, Mr. VITTER, Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. 

SHELBY, Ms. STABENOW, Mrs. BOXER, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. WYDEN, 

Mr. FRANKEN, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, 

and Mr. CORNYN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works 

A BILL 

To ensure that amounts credited to the Harbor Maintenance 

Trust Fund are used for harbor maintenance. 

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. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Harbor Maintenance 

5 Act of 2011’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR HARBOR MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS. 

7 (a) HARBOR MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND GUAR8 ANTEE.— 


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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—The total budget resources 

2 made available from the Harbor Maintenance Trust 

3 Fund each fiscal year pursuant to section 9505(c) of 

4 the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to ex5 penditures from the Harbor Maintenance Trust 

6 Fund) shall be equal to the level of receipts plus in7 terest credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust 

8 Fund for that fiscal year. Such amounts may be 

9 used only for harbor maintenance programs de10 scribed in section 9505(c) of such Code. 

11 (2) GUARANTEE.—No funds may be appro12 priated for harbor maintenance programs described 

13 in such section unless the amount described in para14 graph (1) has been provided. 

15 (b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi16 nitions apply: 

17 (1) TOTAL BUDGET RESOURCES.—The term 

18 ‘‘total budget resources’’ means the total amount 

19 made available by appropriations Acts from the Har20 bor Maintenance Trust Fund for a fiscal year for 

21 making expenditures under section 9505(c) of the 

22 Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 

23 (2) LEVEL OF RECEIPTS PLUS INTEREST.—The 

24 term ‘‘level of receipts plus interest’’ means the level 

25 of taxes and interest credited to the Harbor MainteVerDate Mar 15 2010 03:29 Feb 19, 2011 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S412.IS S412

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1 nance Trust Fund under section 9505 of the Inter2 nal Revenue Code of 1986 for a fiscal year as set 

3 forth in the President’s budget baseline projection as 

4 defined in section 257 of the Balanced Budget and 

5 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 

6 99–177; 99 Stat. 1092) for that fiscal year sub7 mitted pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United 

8 States Code. 

9 (c) ENFORCEMENT OF GUARANTEES.—It shall not be 

10 in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate 

11 to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, 

12 or conference report that would cause total budget re13 sources in a fiscal year for harbor maintenance programs 

14 described in subsection (b)(1) for such fiscal year to be 

15 less than the amount required by subsection (a)(1) for 

16 such fiscal year. 

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