Title: Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act

This bill reauthorizes the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 from FY2018-FY2022.
The Governmental Accountability Office must compare the unit costs of hydrographic surveys conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the unit costs of procuring the surveys.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 221 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 221

 To reauthorize the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2017

 Mr. Young of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To reauthorize the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998, 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 ``Hydrographic Services Improvement 
Amendments Act''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF HYDROGRAPHIC SERVICES IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 
              1998.

    (a) Reauthorizations.--Section 306 of the Hydrographic Services 
Improvement Act of 1998 (33 U.S.C. 892d) is amended--
            (1) by inserting before the text the following: ``(a) In 
        General.--'';
            (2) in subsection (a) (as designated by the amendment made 
        by paragraph (1))--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``surveys--'' and 
                all that follows through the end of the paragraph and 
                inserting ``surveys, $70,814,000 for each of fiscal 
                years 2018 through 2022.'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``vessels--'' and 
                all that follows through the end of the paragraph and 
                inserting ``vessels, $25,000,000 for each of fiscal 
                years 2018 through 2022.'';
                    (C) in paragraph (3), by striking 
                ``Administration--'' and all that follows through the 
                end of the paragraph and inserting ``Administration, 
                $29,932,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 
                2022.'';
                    (D) in paragraph (4), by striking 
                ``title--'' and all that follows through the end of the 
                paragraph and inserting ``title, $26,800,000 for each 
                of fiscal years 2018 through 2022.''; and
                    (E) in paragraph (5), by striking 
                ``title--'' and all that follows through the end of the 
                paragraph and inserting ``title, $30,564,000 for each 
                of fiscal years 2018 through 2022.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Arctic Programs.--Of the amount authorized by this section 
for each fiscal year--
            ``(1) $5,000,000 is authorized for use to acquire 
        hydrographic data, provide hydrographic services, conduct 
        coastal change analyses necessary to ensure safe navigation, 
        and improve the management of coastal change in the Arctic; and
            ``(2) $2,000,000 is authorized for use to acquire 
        hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services in the 
        Arctic necessary to delineate the United States extended 
        Continental Shelf.''.
    (b) Limitation on Administrative Expenses for Surveys.--Section 306 
of such Act (33 U.S.C. 892d) is further amended by adding at the end 
the following:
    ``(c) Limitation on Administrative Expenses for Surveys.--Of 
amounts authorized by this section for each fiscal year for 
hydrographic surveys, not more than 5 percent is authorized for 
administrative costs.''.

SEC. 3. GAO STUDY.

    The Comptroller General of the United States shall, by not later 
than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act--
            (1) conduct a study comparing the unit costs of 
        hydrographic surveys conducted by the National Oceanic and 
        Atmospheric Administration and the unit costs of procuring 
        performance of such surveys; and
            (2) report to the Congress on the findings of such study.
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