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S 1515 IS
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1515
To amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific to the Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United States extended continental shelf, and the monitoring and description of coastal changes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 24, 2009
Ms. MURKOWSKI introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
A BILL
To amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific to the Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United States extended continental shelf, and the monitoring and description of coastal changes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 306 of the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 (33 U.S.C. 892d) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
‘(7) To acquire hydrographic data, provide hydrographic services, and conduct coastal change analyses necessary to ensure safe navigation, and to improve the management of coastal change in the Arctic, $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 and 2012.
‘(8) To acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services in the Arctic necessary to delineate the United States extended continental shelf, $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 and 2012.’.
U.S. Congress - Text of S.1515 as Introduced in Senate A bill to amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to...
