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46 U.S.C. § 13107 — Authorization of appropriations
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**(a)** Subject to subsection (c), the Secretary shall expend in each fiscal year for State recreational boating safety programs, under contracts with States under this chapter, an amount equal to the amount transferred to the Secretary under subsections (a)(2) and (f) of section 4 of the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act ([16 U.S.C. 777c(a)(2)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777c/a/2&num=0&edition=prelim) and (f)). The amount shall be allocated as provided under [section 13104 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title46-section13104&num=0&edition=prelim) and shall be available for State recreational boating safety programs as provided under the guidelines established under subsection (b) of this section. Amounts authorized to be expended for State recreational boating safety programs shall remain available until expended and are deemed to have been expended only if an amount equal to the total amounts authorized to be expended under this section for the fiscal year in question and all prior fiscal years have been obligated. Amounts previously obligated but released by payment of a final voucher or modification of a program acceptance shall be credited to the balance of unobligated amounts and are immediately available for expenditure.
**(b)** The Secretary shall establish guidelines prescribing the purposes for which amounts available under this chapter for State recreational boating safety programs may be used. Those purposes shall include—
(1) providing facilities, equipment, and supplies for boating safety education and law enforcement, including purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair;
(2) training personnel in skills related to boating safety and to the enforcemen
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**(a)** Subject to subsection (c), the Secretary shall expend in each fiscal year for State recreational boating safety programs, under contracts with States under this chapter, an amount equal to the amount transferred to the Secretary under subsections (a)(2) and (f) of section 4 of the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act ([16 U.S.C. 777c(a)(2)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777c/a/2&num=0&edition=prelim) and (f)). The amount shall be allocated as provided under [section 13104 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title46-section13104&num=0&edition=prelim) and shall be available for State recreational boating safety programs as provided under the guidelines established under subsection (b) of this section. Amounts authorized to be expended for State recreational boating safety programs shall remain available until expended and are deemed to have been expended only if an amount equal to the total amounts authorized to be expended under this section for the fiscal year in question and all prior fiscal years have been obligated. Amounts previously obligated but released by payment of a final voucher or modification of a program acceptance shall be credited to the balance of unobligated amounts and are immediately available for expenditure.
**(b)** The Secretary shall establish guidelines prescribing the purposes for which amounts available under this chapter for State recreational boating safety programs may be used. Those purposes shall include—
(1) providing facilities, equipment, and supplies for boating safety education and law enforcement, including purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair;
(2) training personnel in skills related to boating safety and to the enforcement of boating safety laws and regulations;
(3) providing public boating safety education, including educational programs and lectures, to the boating community and the public school system;
(4) acquiring, constructing, or repairing public access sites used primarily by recreational boaters;
(5) conducting boating safety inspections and marine casualty investigations;
(6) establishing and maintaining emergency or search and rescue facilities, and providing emergency or search and rescue assistance;
(7) establishing and maintaining waterway markers and other appropriate aids to navigation; and
(8) providing State recreational vessel numbering and titling programs.
**(c)**
(1)
(A) The Secretary may use amounts made available each fiscal year under section 4(b)(2) of the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act ([16 U.S.C. 777c(b)(2)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777c/b/2&num=0&edition=prelim)) for payment of expenses of the Coast Guard for investigations, personnel, and activities directly related to—
(i) administering State recreational boating safety programs under this chapter; or
(ii) coordinating or carrying out the national recreational boating safety program under this title.
(B) Of the amounts used by the Secretary each fiscal year under subparagraph (A)—
(i) not less than $2,100,000 is available to ensure compliance with chapter 43 of this title; and
(ii) not more than $1,500,000 is available to conduct by grant or contract a survey of levels of recreational boating participation and related matters in the United States.
(2) On or after October 1, 2024, no funds available to the Secretary under this subsection may be used to replace funding provided through general appropriations, nor for any purposes except those purposes authorized by this section.
(3) Amounts made available by this subsection shall remain available during the 2 succeeding fiscal years. Any amount that is unexpended or unobligated at the end of the 3-year period during which it is available shall be withdrawn by the Secretary and allocated to the States in addition to any other amounts available for allocation in the fiscal year in which they are withdrawn or the following fiscal year.
(4) The Secretary shall publish annually in the Federal Register a detailed accounting of the projects, programs, and activities funded under this subsection.
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**(a)** The Secretary shall allocate amounts available for allocation and distribution under this chapter for State recreational boating safety programs as follows:
(1) One-third shall be allocated equally each fiscal year among eligible States.
(2) One-third shall be allocated among eligible States that maintain a State vessel numbering system approved under chapter 123 of this title and a marine casualty reporting system approved under this chapter so that the amount allocated each fiscal year to each eligible State will be in the same ratio as the number of vessels numbered in that State bears to the number of vessels numbered in all eligible States.
(3) One-third shall be allocated so that the amount allocated each fiscal year to each eligible State will be in the same ratio as the amount of State amounts expended by the State for the State recreational boating safety program during the prior fiscal year bears to the total State amounts expended during that fiscal year by all eligible States for State recreational boating safety programs.
**(b)** The amount received by a State under this section in a fiscal year may be not more than one-half of the total cost incurred by that State in developing, carrying out, and financing that State’s recreational boating safety program in that fiscal year.
**(c)** The Secretary may allocate not more than 5 percent of the amounts available for allocation and distribution in a fiscal year for national boating safety activities of national nonprofit public service organizations.
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To carry out the provisions of this chapter for fiscal years after September 30, 1984, there are authorized to be appropriated from the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund established by [section 9504(a) of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section9504/a&num=0&edition=prelim) the amounts paid, transferred, or otherwise credited to that Trust Fund, except as provided in [section 9504(c) of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section9504/c&num=0&edition=prelim). For purposes of the provision of the Act of August 31, 1951, which refers to this section, such amounts shall be treated as the amounts that are equal to the revenues described in this section. The appropriation made under the provisions of this section for each fiscal year shall continue available during succeeding fiscal years. So much of such appropriation apportioned to any State for any fiscal year as remains unexpended at the close thereof is authorized to be made available for expenditure in that State until the close of the succeeding fiscal year. Any amount apportioned to any State under the provisions of this chapter which is unexpended or unobligated at the end of the period during which it is available for expenditure on any project is authorized to be made available for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior to supplement the 58.012 percent of the balance of each annual appropriation to be apportioned among the States, as provided for in [section 777c(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777c/c&num=0&edition=prelim).
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In this chapter:
(1) **Eligible State.—** — The term “eligible State” means a State that has a State recreational boating safety program accepted by the Secretary.
(2) **State Recreational Boating Safety Program.—** — The term “State recreational boating safety program” means education, assistance, and enforcement activities conducted for maritime casualty prevention, reduction, and reporting for recreational boating.
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**(a) Creation of Trust Fund** There is established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the “Highway Trust Fund”, consisting of such amounts as may be appropriated or credited to the Highway Trust Fund as provided in this section or section 9602(b).
**(b) Transfer to Highway Trust Fund of amounts equivalent to certain taxes and penalties**
(1) **Certain taxes** — There are hereby appropriated to the Highway Trust Fund amounts equivalent to the taxes received in the Treasury before October 1, 2028, under the following provisions—
(A) section 4041 (relating to taxes on diesel fuels and special motor fuels),
(B) section 4051 (relating to retail tax on heavy trucks and trailers),
(C) section 4071 (relating to tax on tires),
(D) section 4081 (relating to tax on gasoline, diesel fuel, and kerosene), and
(E) section 4481 (relating to tax on use of certain vehicles).
For purposes of this paragraph, taxes received under sections 4041 and 4081 shall be determined without reduction for credits under section 6426 and taxes received under section 4081 shall be determined without regard to tax receipts attributable to the rate specified in section 4081(a)(2)(C).
(2) **Liabilities incurred before October 1, 2028** — There are hereby appropriated to the Highway Trust Fund amounts equivalent to the taxes which are received in the Treasury after September 30, 2028, and before July 1, 2029, and which are attributable to liability for tax incurred before October 1, 2028, under the provisions described in paragraph (1).
(3) **Repealed. Pub. L. 109–59, title XI, § 11161(c)(2)(C), Aug. 10, 2005, 119 Stat. 1972]**
(4) **Certain taxes not transferred to Highway Trust Fund** — For purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), there shall not be taken into
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Level II of the Executive Schedule applies to the following positions, for which the annual rate of basic pay shall be the rate determined with respect to such level under chapter 11 of title 2, as adjusted by [section 5318 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5318&num=0&edition=prelim):
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**(a) Cooperation between Federal Government and State fish and game departments; expenditure of funds** The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to cooperate with the States through their respective State fish and game departments in fish restoration and management projects as hereinafter set forth: No money apportioned under this chapter to any State, except as hereinafter provided, shall be expended therein until its legislature, or other State agency authorized by the State constitution to make laws governing the conservation of fish, shall have assented to the provisions of this chapter and shall have passed laws for the conservation of fish, which shall include a prohibition against the diversion of license fees paid by fishermen for any other purpose than the administration of said State fish and game department, except that, until the final adjournment of the first regular session of the legislature held after passage of this chapter, the assent of the governor of the State shall be sufficient. The Secretary of the Interior and the State fish and game department of each State accepting the benefits of this chapter shall agree upon the fish restoration and management projects to be aided in such State under the terms of this chapter, and all projects shall conform to the standards fixed by the Secretary of the Interior.
**(b) Allocation of amounts by coastal States between marine fish projects and freshwater fish projects**
(1) **In general** — Subject to paragraph (2), each coastal State, to the extent practicable, shall equitably allocate amounts apportioned to such State under this chapter between marine fish projects and freshwater fish projects in the same proportion as the estimated number of resident marine anglers and the estimated numbe
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**(a)** Consistent with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, the computation by a State of amounts expended for the State recreational boating safety program shall include—
(1) the acquisition, maintenance, and operating costs of land, facilities, equipment, and supplies;
(2) personnel salaries and reimbursable expenses;
(3) the costs of training personnel;
(4) public boat safety education;
(5) the costs of carrying out the program; and
(6) other expenses that the Secretary considers appropriate.
**(b)** The Secretary shall decide an issue arising out of the computation made under subsection (a) of this section.
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**(a) In general** For each fiscal year through fiscal year 2026, the balance of each annual appropriation made in accordance with the provisions of [section 777b of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777b&num=0&edition=prelim) remaining after the distributions for administrative expenses and other purposes under subsection (b) and for activities under [section 777m(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777m/e&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be distributed as follows:
(1) **Coastal wetlands** — An amount equal to 18.673 percent to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution as provided in the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection,11 So in original. The comma probably should not appear. and Restoration Act ([16 U.S.C. 3951](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3951&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
(2) **Boating safety** — An amount equal to 17.315 percent to the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating for State recreational boating safety programs under [section 13107 of title 46](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title46-section13107&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) **Boating infrastructure improvement**
(A) *In general* — An amount equal to 4 percent to the Secretary of the Interior for qualified projects under section 5604(c) of the Clean Vessel Act of 1992 ([33 U.S.C. 1322](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section1322&num=0&edition=prelim) note) and [section 777g–1(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777g–1/d&num=0&edition=prelim).
(B) *Limitation* — Not more than 75 percent o
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**(a) Creation of Trust Fund** There is hereby established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the “Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund”. Such Trust Fund shall consist of such amounts as may be appropriated, credited, or paid to it as provided in this section, section 9503(c)(3), section 9503(c)(4), or section 9602(b).
**(b) Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund**
(1) **Transfer of certain taxes to Trust Fund** — There is hereby appropriated to the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund amounts equivalent to the following amounts received in the Treasury on or after October 1, 1984—
(A) the taxes imposed by section 4161(a) (relating to sport fishing equipment), and
(B) the import duties imposed on fishing tackle under heading 9507 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States ([19 U.S.C. 1202](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section1202&num=0&edition=prelim)) and on yachts and pleasure craft under chapter 89 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.
(2) **Expenditures from Trust Fund** — Amounts in the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund shall be available, as provided by appropriation Acts, for making expenditures—
(A) to carry out the purposes of the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act (as in effect on the date of the enactment of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act),
(B) to carry out the purposes of section 7404(d) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (as in effect on the date of the enactment of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act), and
(C) to carry out the purposes of the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (as in effect on the date of the enactment of the Infrastruc
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**(a)** To encourage greater State participation and uniformity in boating safety efforts, and particularly to permit the States to assume the greater share of boating safety education, assistance, and enforcement activities, the Secretary shall carry out a national recreational boating safety program. Under this program, the Secretary shall make contracts with, and allocate and distribute amounts to, eligible States to assist them in developing, carrying out, and financing State recreational boating safety programs.
**(b)** The Secretary shall establish guidelines and standards for the program. In doing so, the Secretary—
(1) shall consider, among other things, factors affecting recreational boating safety by contributing to overcrowding and congestion of waterways, such as the increasing number of recreational vessels operating on those waterways and their geographic distribution, the availability and geographic distribution of recreational boating facilities in and among applying States, and State marine casualty and fatality statistics for recreational vessels;
(2) shall consult with the Secretary of the Interior to minimize duplication with the purposes and expenditures of chapter 2003 of title 54, United States Code,11 So in original. The words “United States Code,” probably should not appear. the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act of 1950 ([16 U.S.C. 777–777k](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777–777k&num=0&edition=prelim)), and with the guidelines developed under those Acts; and
(3) shall maintain environmental standards consistent with the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 ([16 U.S.C. 1451–146](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1451–146&num=0&edition=prelim)4) and
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