Coast Guard Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013

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Introduced

6 October 2011

Last action

26 January 2012 · Reported

Status

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 300.

Summary

Coast Guard Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013 - Authorizes FY2012-FY2013 appropriations for the Coast Guard for: (1) operation and maintenance; (2) acquisition, construction, rebuilding, renovation, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities, vessels, aircraft, and related equipment; (3) research, development, testing, and evaluation of technologies, materials, and human factors directly related to improving the performance of the Coast Guard's mission in search and rescue, aids to navigation, marine safety, marine environmental protection, enforcement of laws and treaties, ice operations, oceanographic research, and defense readiness; (4) retired pay, payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefit Plans, and medical and dental care of retired personnel and dependents; (5) alteration or removal of bridges over U.S. navigable waters; (6) environmental compliance and restoration functions; and (7) the Coast Guard Reserve program. Authorizes, at specified levels for each such fiscal year, end-of-year strength for active duty personnel and average military training student loads. Requires the Coast Guard, subject to exceptions, to be the sole supplier of icebreaking services, on an advancement or reimbursable basis, to each federal agency requiring such services. Revises the acquisition workforce expedited hiring authority in the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010 to: (1) authorize the Commandant of the Coast Guard to designate any category of specified acquisition workforce positions as positions for which there is a shortage of candidates or a critical hiring need, and (2) extend such authority to September 30, 2015. Modifies personnel provisions to: (1) increase to three the authorized number of Reserve Officers in an active status not on active duty in the grades of rear admiral (lower half) and rear admiral, and (2) revise the standards applicable to the selection of officers recommended for promotion and the original appointment of permanent commissioned officers. Entitles foreign nationals permitted to receive instruction at the Coast Guard Academy to the same emoluments (in addition to pay and allowances) as other appointed cadets. Extends eligibility for enrollment in the Coast Guard Auxiliary to aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence. Requires that a policy on sexual harassment and sexual violence be prescribed for Academy personnel including cadets. Sets forth authority for the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to: (1) enter contracts or orders for materials, storage, and planning in advance of a contract or order for construction of a vessel; (2) acquire and maintain polar icebreakers; and (3) construct or lease facilities in the Aleutian Island-Bering Sea operating area. Eliminates the National Response Unit under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Transfers the Unit's national response functions (currently, carried out by the Secretary acting through such Unit) directly to the Secretary. Establishes a Support of Seafarers Fund from which the Secretary is authorized to: (1) pay the necessary support of seafarers entering, remaining, or paroling into the United States while involved in an investigation, reporting, documentation, or adjudication of any matter related to the administration or enforcement of any treaty, law, or regulation by the Coast Guard and seafarers abandoned in the United States; and (2) if necessary to avoid serious injustice, reimburse certain shipowners or operators who file a bond or surety satisfactory and provide necessary support of a seafarer. Defines a "seafarer" as an alien crewman employed or engaged on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, excluding vessels owned (and bareboats chartered and operated) by the United States, a U.S. state or political subdivision, or a foreign nation that are not engaged in commerce. Amends the federal shipping law requirements that must be satisfied before the Secretary is authorized to delegate to a foreign classification society the authority to: (1) issue certificates of inspection for certain vessels, (2) approve plans required for issuing certificates of inspection and compliance for certain U.S. offshore facilities under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, and (3) conduct related inspections and examinations. Expands such requirements to include a determination by the Secretary of State that such a society does not provide comparable services in or for the government of a country designated by the Secretary of State as a State Sponsor of Terrorism and requires the revocation of any such existing delegation. Sets forth provisions that: (1) require the Commandant to determine the improvements necessary to make the St. George, Alaska harbor a fully functional harbor of refuge throughout the year; (2) increase amounts from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund invested in income producing securities; (3) direct conveyance, without consideration, of the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS to the STORIS Museum under specified conditions; and (4) prohibit vessels transported in Dry Dock #2 from being considered merchandise when connected to electrical and various other utilities in Ketchikan, Alaska.

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Timeline

6 October 2011
Introduced
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Source: IntroReferral
6 October 2011
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
Source: IntroReferral
2 November 2011
Reported
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Source: Committee
26 January 2012
Calendars
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 300.
Source: Calendars
26 January 2012
Reported
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Rockefeller with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 112-135.
Source: Committee
26 January 2012
Reported
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Rockefeller with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 112-135.
Source: Committee

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Related records

related to → Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2012
related to → Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2012

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1665
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