SEC. 2. GAO STUDY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General 
of the United States shall initiate a study described in sub-
section (c). 
(b) SUBMISSION.—The Comptroller General shall 
submit to appropriate congressional committees, including 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and 
the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Com-
merce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on 
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, the 
results of the study under subsection (a). 
(c) CONTENTS OF STUDY.—In conducting the study 
under subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall in-
clude— 
(1) an outline of policy and regulatory options 
that could be adopted to increase the role of United 
States built vessels, flagged vessels, and mariners in 
offshore wind turbine installation to meet the goal of 
developing 30 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 
2030; 
(2) an outline of any potential ways to— 
(A) increase the role of United States 
crews on vessels that are subject to the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act and not subject to 
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chapters 121 and 551 of title 46, United States 
Code, commonly referred to as the ‘‘Jones Act’’; 
and 
(B) domestically manufacture vessels de-
scribed in subparagraph (A); 
(3) an assessment of the workforce needs that 
would be required to build an United States mariner 
workforce for offshore wind construction, operations, 
and maintenance to meet the 30 gigawatt goal in 
subsection (1), specifically— 
(A) the number of such workers needed to 
crew the offshore wind vessels necessary to 
meet the goal of developing 30 gigawatts of off-
shore wind capacity by 2030; 
(B) the number of workers needed to man-
ufacture, build, operate, maintain, and support 
offshore wind projects; 
(C) the types of skills and competencies, 
including those unique to offshore wind con-
struction, operations, and maintenance, re-
quired for such employment opportunities; 
(D) the required industry or recognized 
postsecondary credentials required of such 
workers; 
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(E) the adjacent skills required for other 
similar occupations, such as oil drilling, that 
can be leveraged for reskilling of existing 
United States workers; 
(F) the gaps in the availability of reg-
istered apprenticeship programs and the ability 
of employers to recruit, hire, and train such 
workers, including— 
(i) the total cost of training for such 
programs to skill up such workers; and 
(ii) the policies the United States 
Government can take to eliminate such 
gaps and costs; and 
(G) the actions that foreign and domestic 
wind developers and vessel operators are taking 
or could be taking to ensure the availability of 
United States mariners; 
(4) an assessment of the capacity of United 
States shipyards to build wind turbine installation 
vessels, heavy lift vessels, fall pipe vessels, cable lay-
ing vessels, and oceanographic research vessels in 
addition to larger Jones Act compliant feeder ves-
sels; and 
(5) an assessment of public and private invest-
ments needed to spur use of a United States manu-
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factured fleet of offshore wind vessels to support 
meeting the goal of developing 30 gigawatts of off-
shore wind capacity by 2030. 
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