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46 U.S.C. § 50114 — National maritime strategy

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46 U.S.C. § 50114 — National maritime strategy

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**(a) In General.—** The Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating and the Commander of United States Transportation Command, shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate— (1) a national maritime strategy; and (2) not less often than once every five years after the submission of such strategy, an update to the strategy. **(b) Contents.—** The strategy required under subsection (a) shall include each of the following: (1) An identification of— (A) international policies and Federal regulations and policies that reduce the competitiveness of United States-documented vessels with foreign vessels in domestic and international transportation markets; and (B) the impact of reduced cargo flow due to reductions in the number of members of the United States Armed Forces stationed or deployed outside of the United States. (2) Recommendations to— (A) make United States-documented vessels more competitive in shipping routes between United States and foreign ports; (B) increase the use of United States-documented vessels to carry cargo imported to and exported from the United States; (C) ensure compliance by Federal agencies with chapter 553; (D) increase the use of short sea transportation routes, including routes designated under section 55601(b), to enhance intermodal freight movements; (E) enhance United States shipbuilding capability; (F) invest in, and identify gaps in, infrastructure needed to facilitate the movement of goods at ports and throughout the transportation system, including innovative physical and information technologies; (G) enhance workforce training and recruitment for the maritime workforce, including training on innovative physical and information technologies; (H) increase the resilience of ports and the marine transportation system; (I) increase the carriage of government-impelled cargo on United States-documented vessels pursuant to chapter 553 of title 46, [section 2631 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2631&num=0&edition=prelim), or otherwise; and (J) maximize the cost effectiveness of Federal funding for carriage of non-defense government impelled cargo for the purposes of maintaining a United States flag fleet for national and economic security. **(c) Update.—** Upon the release of a strategy or update under subsection (a), the Secretary of Transportation shall make such strategy or update publicly available on the website of the Department of Transportation. **(d) Implementation Plan.—** Not later than six months after the submission of a strategy or update under subsection (a), the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating and the Secretary of Defense, shall make publicly available on an appropriate website an implementation plan for such strategy or update.

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2 U.S.C. § 661 — Provisions relating to House of Representatives

**(a) Enforcement in House of Representatives** It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives to consider a rule or order that waives the application of [section 658d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section658d&num=0&edition=prelim). **(b) Disposition of points of order** (1) **Application to House of Representatives** — This subsection shall apply only to the House of Representatives. (2) **Threshold burden** — In order to be cognizable by the Chair, a point of order under [section 658d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section658d&num=0&edition=prelim) or subsection (a) of this section must specify the precise language on which it is premised. (3) **Question of consideration** — As disposition of points of order under [section 658d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section658d&num=0&edition=prelim) or subsection (a) of this section, the Chair shall put the question of consideration with respect to the proposition that is the subject of the points of order. (4) **Debate and intervening motions** — A question of consideration under this section shall be debatable for 10 minutes by each Member initiating a point of order and for 10 minutes by an opponent on each point of order, but shall otherwise be decided without intervening motion except one that the House adjourn or that the Committee of the Whole rise, as the case may be. (5) **Effect on amendment in order as original text** — The disposition of the question of consideration under this subsection with respect to a bill or joint resolution shall be considered also to determine the question of consideration under this subsection with respect to an amendm

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26 U.S.C. § 1016 — Adjustments to basis

**(a) General rule** Proper adjustment in respect of the property shall in all cases be made— (1) for expenditures, receipts, losses, or other items, properly chargeable to capital account, but no such adjustment shall be made— (A) for— (i) taxes or other carrying charges described in section 266; or (ii) expenditures described in section 173 (relating to circulation expenditures), for which deductions have been taken by the taxpayer in determining taxable income for the taxable year or prior taxable years; or (B) for mortality, expense, or other reasonable charges incurred under an annuity or life insurance contract; (2) in respect of any period since February 28, 1913, for exhaustion, wear and tear, obsolescence, amortization, and depletion, to the extent of the amount— (A) allowed as deductions in computing taxable income under this subtitle or prior income tax laws, and (B) resulting (by reason of the deductions so allowed) in a reduction for any taxable year of the taxpayer’s taxes under this subtitle (other than chapter 2, relating to tax on self-employment income), or prior income, war-profits, or excess-profits tax laws, but not less than the amount allowable under this subtitle or prior income tax laws. Where no method has been adopted under section 167 (relating to depreciation deduction), the amount allowable shall be determined under the straight line method. Subparagraph (B) of this paragraph shall not apply in respect of any period since February 28, 1913, and before January 1, 1952, unless an election has been made under section 1020 (as in effect before the date of the enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1976). Where for any taxable year before the taxable year 1932 the depletion allowance was based on discovery value or a pe

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10 U.S.C. § 2631 — Preference for United States vessels in transporting supplies by sea

**(a) In General.—** Supplies bought for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force, or for a Defense Agency, or otherwise transported by the Department of Defense, may only be transported by sea in— (1) a vessel belonging to the United States; or (2) a vessel of the United States (as such term is defined in [section 116 of title 46](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title46-section116&num=0&edition=prelim)). **(b) Waiver and Notification.—** (1) The Secretary of Defense may waive the requirement under subsection (a) if such a vessel is— (A) not available at a fair and reasonable rate for commercial vessels of the United States; or (B) otherwise not available. (2) At least once each fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense shall submit, in writing, to the appropriate congressional committees a notice of any waiver granted under this subsection and the reasons for such waiver. **(c) Requirements for Reflagging or Repair Work.—** (1) In each request for proposals to enter into a time-charter contract for the use of a vessel for the transportation of supplies under this section, the Secretary of Defense shall require that— (A) any reflagging or repair work on a vessel for which a proposal is submitted in response to the request for proposals be performed in the United States (including any territory of the United States); and (B) any corrective and preventive maintenance or repair work on a vessel under contract pursuant to this section relevant to the purpose of such contract be performed in the United States (including any territory of the United States) for the duration of the contract, to the greatest extent practicable. (2) The Secretary of Defense may waive a requirement under paragraph (1) if the Secretary det

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5 U.S.C. § 601 — Definitions

For purposes of this chapter— (1) the term “agency” means an agency as defined in [section 551(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section551/1&num=0&edition=prelim); (2) the term “rule” means any rule for which the agency publishes a general notice of proposed rulemaking pursuant to [section 553(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section553/b&num=0&edition=prelim), or any other law, including any rule of general applicability governing Federal grants to State and local governments for which the agency provides an opportunity for notice and public comment, except that the term “rule” does not include a rule of particular applicability relating to rates, wages, corporate or financial structures or reorganizations thereof, prices, facilities, appliances, services, or allowances therefor or to valuations, costs or accounting, or practices relating to such rates, wages, structures, prices, appliances, services, or allowances; (3) the term “small business” has the same meaning as the term “small business concern” under section 3 of the Small Business Act, unless an agency, after consultation with the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration and after opportunity for public comment, establishes one or more definitions of such term which are appropriate to the activities of the agency and publishes such definition(s) in the Federal Register; (4) the term “small organization” means any not-for-profit enterprise which is independently owned and operated and is not dominant in its field, unless an agency establishes, after opportunity for public comment, one or more definitions of such term which are appropriate to the activities of the agency and publishes such

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50 U.S.C. § 4531 — Strengthening domestic capability

**(a) In general** Utilizing the authority of subchapter II of this chapter or any other provision of law, the President may provide appropriate incentives to develop, maintain, modernize, restore, and expand the productive capacities of domestic sources for critical components, critical technology items, materials, and industrial resources essential for the execution of the national security strategy of the United States. **(b) Critical components and critical technology items** (1) **Maintenance of reliable sources of supply** — The President shall take appropriate actions to assure that critical components, critical technology items, essential materials, and industrial resources are available from reliable sources when needed to meet defense requirements during peacetime, graduated mobilization, and national emergency. (2) **Appropriate action** — For purposes of this subsection, appropriate action may include— (A) restricting contract solicitations to reliable sources; (B) restricting contract solicitations to domestic sources pursuant to— (i) section 3203(a)(1)(B) or 3204(a)(3) of title 10; (ii) section 3303(a)(1)(B) or 3304(a)(3) of title 41; or (iii) other statutory authority; (C) stockpiling critical components; and (D) developing substitutes for a critical component or a critical technology item.

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46 U.S.C. § 55304 — Exports financed by the United States Government

It is the sense of Congress that any loans made by an instrumentality of the United States Government to foster the exporting of agricultural or other products shall provide that the products may be transported only on vessels of the United States unless, as to any or all of those products, the Secretary of Transportation, after investigation, certifies to the instrumentality that vessels of the United States are not available in sufficient number, in sufficient tonnage capacity, on necessary schedules, or at reasonable rates.

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46 U.S.C. § 50114 — National maritime strategy

Page 331 TITLE 46—SHIPPING § 50114 (3) The existence of an established program of the applicant encompassing research and training directed to enhancing maritime in- dustries. (4) The demonstrated ability of the applicant to assemble and evaluate pertinent informa- tion from national and international sources and to disseminate results of maritime indus- try research and educational programs through a continuing education program. (5) The qualification of the applicant as a nonprofit institution of higher learning. (e) FINANCIAL AWARDS.—The Secretary may make awards on an equal matching basis to an institute designated under subsection (a) from amounts appropriated. The aggregate annual amount of the Federal share of the awards by the Secretary may not exceed $500,000. (f) UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH FUNDS.—The Secretary may make a grant under section 5505 of title 49 to an institute designated under subsection (a) for maritime and maritime intermodal research under that section as if the institute were a university transportation cen- ter. In making a grant, the Secretary, through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Re- search and Technology of the Department of Transportation, shall advise the Maritime Ad- ministration on the availability of funds for the grants and consult with the Administration on making the grants. (Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(b), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1561; Pub. L. 113–76, div. L, title I, Jan. 17, 2014, 128 Stat. 574.) HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES Revised Section Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at Large) 50112 .......... 46 App.:1121–2. Pub. L. 101–115, § 8, Oct. 13, 1989, 103 Stat. 694; Pub. L. 101–595, title VII, § 702, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 2994; Pub. L. 102–241, § 47, Dec. 19, 1991, 10

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