I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2876 
To promote the recycling of vessels in the United States and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 24, 2015 
Mr. GRAVES of Louisiana (for himself, Mr. HUNTER, and Mr. VELA) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed 
Services, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To promote the recycling of vessels in the United States 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLES. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ships to be Recycled 
in the States Act’’ or the ‘‘STORIS Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORT ON DISPOSITION OF VESSELS NOT 
WORTH PRESERVING. 
Section 57102 of title 46, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) ANNUAL REPORT.— 
‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of the enactment of the Ships to be 
Recycled in the States Act and annually thereafter, 
the Secretary of Transportation, in coordination 
with the Secretary of the Navy, shall report to the 
Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Sen-
ate and the Committees on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Natural Resources, and the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the 
House of Representatives on the vessel disposal pro-
gram carried out under this section and on any 
other disposal of obsolete vessels owned by the Gov-
ernment carried out under any other authority. 
‘‘(2) CONTENT.—Each annual report required 
by paragraph (1) shall include the total amount of— 
‘‘(A) appropriated funds expended to carry 
out the vessel disposal program under this sec-
tion and any other disposal of obsolete vessels 
owned by the Government carried out under 
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any other authority during the previous year; 
and 
‘‘(B) the sales accrued and disbursed for 
such program and disposal.’’. 
SEC. 3. AUDIT OF VESSEL DISPOSAL PROGRAM. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 270 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller 
General of the United States shall conduct and submit to 
the appropriate committees of Congress a full audit of all 
excess Federal Government vessel sales contracts, includ-
ing resulting receivables and expenditures, entered into by 
the Maritime Administration in the period beginning Jan-
uary 1, 1994, and ending on the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
(b) CONTENT.—The audit required by subsection (a) 
shall review— 
(1) receivables, by contract from award to con-
tract close-out; where receivables were held or in-
vested; expenditures and distributions, including re-
cipients of grants under the National Maritime Her-
itage Grants Program since the date of the enact-
ment of the National Maritime Heritage Act of 1994 
(Public Law 103–451); internal safeguards from 
waste, fraud, and abuse; and the status of any re-
maining unexpended funds; 
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(2) agency management of the sales program, 
including review of safeguards from fraud, waste, 
and abuse from initial offerings, to submission of 
bids, and through award to contract close-out and 
any resulting protest or litigation; 
(3) contracts for the sale of excess Federal Gov-
ernment vessels that were awarded to bidders that 
were not the highest bidders and the financial im-
pact of those awards on recipients of grants under 
the National Maritime Heritage Grants Program, in-
cluding the State maritime academies, and the 
United States Merchant Marine Academy, and on 
the National Maritime Heritage Grant Program; and 
(4) agreements the Maritime Administration 
has entered into with the Coast Guard, the Depart-
ment of Defense, the General Services Administra-
tion, the Environmental Protection Agency, and 
other Government agencies to dispose of excess Gov-
ernment vessels, including whether those agreements 
and agency policies are consistent with the Duncan 
Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for 
2009 (Public Law 110–417) and other relevant 
State and Federal laws. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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