SEC. 402. CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION FOR GALLANT 
LADY. 
Section 1120(c) of the Coast Guard Authorization 
Act of 1996 (110 Stat. 3977) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘of Transportation’’ and 
inserting ‘‘of the department in which the Coast 
Guard is operating’’; and 
(B) by striking subparagraph (A) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(A) 
the 
vessel 
GALLANT 
LADY 
(Feadship hull number 672, approximately 168 
feet in length).’’; 
(2) by striking paragraphs (3) and (4) and re-
designating paragraph (5) as paragraph (3); and 
(3) in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated) by 
striking all after ‘‘shall expire’’ and inserting ‘‘on 
the date of the sale of the vessel by the owner.’’. 
SEC. 403. TEMPORARY WAIVER. 
Notwithstanding section 27 of the Merchant Marine 
Act, 1920 (46 U.S.C. App. 883) or any other law restrict-
ing a foreign-flag vessel from operating in the coastwise 
trade, the foreign-flag vessel TAI AN KOU (IMO number 
9223277) may engage in the coastwise trade of the United 
States to transport a jack-up drilling rig from a place near 
Port Arthur, Texas, to a site in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Such 
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transportation shall be completed not later than December 
31, 2006. 
SEC. 404. WAIVER. 
Notwithstanding section 27 of the Merchant Marine 
Act, 1920 (46 U.S.C. App. 883), section 8 of the Act of 
June 19, 1886 (46 U.S.C. App. 289; 24 Stat. 81), and 
section 12106 of title 46, United States Code, the Sec-
retary of the department in which the Coast Guard is op-
erating may issue a certificate of documentation with a 
coastwise endorsement for the OCEAN VERITAS (IMO 
Number 7366805). 
SEC. 405. DATA. 
In each of fiscal years 2007 and 2008, there is au-
thorized to be appropriated to the Administrator of the 
National 
Oceanic 
and 
Atmospheric 
Administration 
$7,000,000 to acquire through the use of unmanned aerial 
vehicles data to improve the management of natural disas-
ters, and the safety of marine and aviation transportation. 
SEC. 406. GREAT LAKES MARITIME RESEARCH INSTITUTE. 
Section 605 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Trans-
portation Act of 2004 (118 Stat. 1052) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘The Secretary of Trans-
portation shall conduct a study that’’ and in-
serting ‘‘The Institute shall conduct maritime 
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transportation studies of the Great Lakes re-
gion, including studies that’’; 
(B) in subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), (E), 
(F), (H), (I), and (J) by striking ‘‘evaluates’’ 
and inserting ‘‘evaluate’’; 
(C) in subparagraphs (D) and (G) by 
striking ‘‘analyzes’’ and inserting ‘‘analyze’’; 
(D) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of sub-
paragraph (I); 
(E) by striking the period at the end of 
paragraph (J) and inserting a semicolon; 
(F) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(K) identify ways to improve the integra-
tion of the Great Lakes marine transportation 
system into the national transportation system; 
‘‘(L) examine the potential of expanded op-
erations on the Great Lakes marine transpor-
tation system; 
‘‘(M) identify ways to include intelligent 
transportation applications into the Great 
Lakes marine transportation system; 
‘‘(N) analyze the effects and impacts of 
aging infrastructure and port corrosion on the 
Great Lakes marine transportation system; 
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‘‘(O) establish and maintain a model Great 
Lakes marine transportation system database; 
and 
‘‘(P) identify market opportunities for, and 
impediments to, the use of United States-flag 
vessels in trade with Canada on the Great 
Lakes.’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (b)(4) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(4) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
paragraph (1)— 
‘‘(A) $2,100,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
‘‘(B) $2,200,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
‘‘(C) $2,300,000 for fiscal year 2009; 
‘‘(D) $2,400,000 for fiscal year 2010; and 
‘‘(E) $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2011.’’. 
SEC. 407. INSPECTION AND CERTIFICATION OF PERMA-
NENTLY MOORED VESSELS. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 30 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Commandant of the Coast 
Guard shall prepare and submit to the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate a report on the number 
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and location of vessels that would be identified as perma-
nently moored vessels under the Coast Guard’s notice of 
proposed policy entitled ‘‘Coast Guard Inspection and Cer-
tification of Permanently Moored Vessels’’, dated June 21, 
2004, and printed in the Federal Register and the poten-
tial economic impacts of prohibiting the issuance of certifi-
cates of inspection for vessels under the proposed policy. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the Coast Guard should develop and implement 
in a timely manner a policy regarding the inspection of 
permanently moored vessels that would not prohibit any 
vessel that is operating under a valid certificate of inspec-
tion on June 1, 2006, from being issued a certificate of 
inspection if such vessel maintains compliance with all ap-
plicable Coast Guard regulations. 
SEC. 408. COMPETITIVE CONTRACTING FOR PATROL BOAT 
REPLACEMENT. 
The Coast Guard may only buy or operate a patrol 
boat replacement (fast response cutter) if the contract to 
build the cutter is awarded using a competitive contracting 
procedure among shipyards in the United States and the 
management of the competitive contracting procedure is 
done by the Coast Guard or the primary contractor for 
the Deepwater Program of the Coast Guard. 
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