H. R. 2150
One Hundred Third Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three
An Act
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for the United States Coast Guard,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Coast Guard Authorization Act
of 1993’’.
TITLE I—AUTHORIZATIONS
SEC. 101. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Funds are authorized to be appropriated for necessary expenses
of the Coast Guard for fiscal year 1994, as follows:
(1) For the operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard,
$2,612,552,200, of which $25,000,000 shall be derived from
the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, and of which $35,000,000
shall be expended from the Boat Safety Account.
(2) For the acquisition, construction, rebuilding, and
improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities,
vessels, and aircraft, including equipment related thereto,
$417,996,500, to remain available until expended, of which
$23,030,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust
Fund to carry out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the
Oil Pollution Act of 1990.
(3) For research, development, test, and evaluation of tech-
nologies, materials, and human factors directly relating to
improving the performance of the Coast Guard’s mission in
support of search and rescue, aids to navigation, marine safety,
marine environmental protection, enforcement of laws and trea-
ties, ice operations, and defense readiness, $25,000,000, to
remain available until expended, of which $4,457,000 shall
be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
(4) For retired pay (including the payment of obligations
otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this purpose),
payments under the Retired Serviceman’s Family Protection
and Survivor Benefit Plans, and payments for medical care
of retired personnel and their dependents under chapter 55
of title 10, United States Code, $548,774,000.
(5) For alteration or removal of bridges over navigable
waters of the United States constituting obstructions to naviga-
tion 
associated 
with 
the 
Bridge 
Alteration 
Program,
$12,940,000, to remain available until expended.
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(6) For environmental compliance and restoration at Coast
Guard facilities, $23,057,000, to remain available until
expanded.
SEC. 102. AUTHORIZED LEVELS OF MILITARY STRENGTH AND MILI-
TARY TRAINING.
(a) AUTHORIZED MILITARY STRENGTH LEVEL.—The Coast Guard
is authorized an end-of-year strength for active duty personnel
of 39,138 as of September 30, 1994. The authorized strength does
not include members of the Ready Reserve called to active duty
for special or emergency augmentation of regular Coast Guard
forces for periods of 180 days or less.
(b) AUTHORIZED LEVEL OF MILITARY TRAINING.—For fiscal year
1994, the Coast Guard is authorized average military training
student loads as follows:
(1) For recruit and special training, 1,986 student years.
(2) For flight training, 114 student years.
(3) For professional training in military and civilian institu-
tions, 338 student years.
(4) For officer acquisition, 955 student years.
TITLE II—PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
IMPROVEMENT
SEC. 201. CEILING ON OFFICER CORPS.
Subsection (a) of section 42 of title 14, United States Code,
is amended by striking ‘‘6,000’’ and inserting ‘‘6,200’’.
SEC. 202. VOLUNTEER SERVICES.
Section 93 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by—
(1) striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph (r);
(2) striking the period at the end of paragraph (s) and
inserting a comma; and
(3) adding at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(t) notwithstanding any other law, enter into cooperative
agreements with States, local governments, non-governmental
organizations, and individuals, to accept and utilize voluntary
services for the maintenance and improvement of natural and
historic resources on, or to benefit natural and historic research
on, Coast Guard facilities, subject to the requirement that—
‘‘(1) the cooperative agreements shall each provide for
the parties to contribute funds or services on a matching
basis to defray the costs of such programs, projects, and
activities under the agreement; and
‘‘(2) a person providing voluntary services under this
subsection shall not be considered a Federal employee
except for purposes of chapter 81 of title 5, United States
Code, with respect to compensation for work-related
injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code,
with respect to tort claims; and’’.
SEC. 203. RESERVE RETENTION BOARDS.
Section 741 of title 14, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a) in the first sentence by striking ‘‘and
are not on active duty and not on an approved list of selectees
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