‘‘(d) EFFECTIVE PERIOD.—A recreational endorse-
ment for a vessel— 
‘‘(1) except as provided in paragraph (3), shall 
be effective for 5 years; 
‘‘(2) shall require the owner of the vessel to no-
tify the Coast Guard of each change in the informa-
tion on which the issuance of the certificate of docu-
mentation is based that occurs before the expiration 
of the certificate under this subsection, by not later 
than 30 days after such change; and 
‘‘(3) shall terminate upon the expiration of such 
30-day period if the owner has not notified the Coast 
Guard of such change before the end of such period. 
‘‘(e) STATE
AND LOCAL AUTHORITY TO REMOVE 
ABANDONED AND DERELICT VESSELS.—Nothing in this 
section shall be construed to limit the authority of a State 
or local authority from taking action to remove an aban-
doned or derelict vessel. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORITY.— 
‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary shall assess 
and collect a fee for the issuance or renewal of a rec-
reational endorsement, that is equivalent to the fee es-
tablished for the issuance or renewal, respectively, of 
a fishery endorsement pursuant to section 2110. 
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‘‘(2) TREATMENT.—Fees collected under this sub-
section— 
‘‘(A) shall be credited to the account from 
which the costs of such issuance or renewal were 
paid; and 
‘‘(B) may remain available until ex-
pended.’’. 
SEC. 411. BACKUP GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle VIII of title 46, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘CHAPTER 807—POSITION, NAVIGATION, 
AND TIMING 
‘‘Sec. 
‘‘80701. Land-based complementary and backup positioning, navigation, and tim-
ing system. 
‘‘§ 80701. Land-based complementary and backup po-
sitioning, navigation, and timing system 
‘‘(a) eLORAN.—Subject to the availability of appro-
priations, the Secretary shall provide for the establishment, 
sustainment, and operation of a reliable land-based en-
hanced LORAN, or eLORAN, positioning, navigation, and 
timing system. 
‘‘(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the system established 
under subsection (a) is to provide a complement to, and 
backup for, the Global Positioning System (in this section 
referred to as ‘GPS’) to ensure the availability of 
uncorrupted and nondegraded positioning, navigation, and 
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timing signals for military and civilian users in the event 
that GPS signals are corrupted, degraded, unreliable, or 
otherwise unavailable. 
‘‘(c) REQUIREMENTS.—The system established under 
subsection (a) shall— 
‘‘(1) be wireless; 
‘‘(2) be terrestrial; 
‘‘(3) provide wide-area coverage; 
‘‘(4) transmit a precise, high-power 100 kilohertz 
signal and meet the one microsecond accuracy re-
quirement specified in the Federal Radio Navigation 
Plan; 
‘‘(5) be synchronized with coordinated universal 
time; 
‘‘(6) be resilient and extremely difficult to dis-
rupt or degrade; 
‘‘(7) be able to penetrate underground and inside 
buildings; 
‘‘(8) be capable of deployment to remote loca-
tions; 
‘‘(9) take full advantage of the infrastructure of 
the existing, unused Coast Guard long-range naviga-
tion system (commonly known as ‘LORAN–C’), and 
subject to the concurrence and agreement of other 
agencies, unused facilities associated with the Ground 
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Wave Emergency Network and Nationwide Differen-
tial GPS systems; 
‘‘(10) utilize and leverage the capabilities of the 
entity for development, building, and operation of the 
system; 
‘‘(11) function in an interoperable and com-
plementary manner with other similar positioning, 
navigation, and timing systems; 
‘‘(12) be made available by the Secretary for use 
by other Federal agencies for public purposes at no 
cost; and 
‘‘(13) incorporate such other requirements deter-
mined necessary by the Secretary with respect to such 
agencies. 
‘‘(d) REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Under authority granted by 
section 93(a)(25) of title 14, United States Code, and 
not later than three months after the date of enact-
ment of this section, the Secretary shall publish a re-
quest for proposals by non-Federal persons for the de-
velopment, building, and operation of the system de-
scribed in subsection (c). 
‘‘(2) ELEMENTS.—Proposals submitted under 
this subsection shall include, at a minimum— 
‘‘(A) an eLORAN system architecture; and 
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‘‘(B) a timetable for the delivery of— 
‘‘(i) a nationwide backup timing sig-
nal not later than two years after the last 
date on which proposals are accepted under 
the request published under paragraph (1); 
and 
‘‘(ii) a nationwide position and navi-
gation signal not later than three years 
after such date. 
‘‘(e) SELECTION.—Using competitive procedures simi-
lar to those authorized under section 2667 of title 10, the 
Secretary may select a proposal from proposals received in 
response to the request for proposals under subsection (d). 
‘‘(f) AGREEMENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may enter 
into a cooperative agreement (as that term is used in 
section 6305 of title 31) with an entity upon such 
terms as the Secretary determines will carry out the 
purpose of the system under subsection (b). 
‘‘(2) CONTENT.—An agreement under this sub-
section shall— 
‘‘(A) require the Secretary to provide the 
entity— 
‘‘(i) access to existing infrastructure 
and facilities described in subsection (c)(9) 
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