View all text of Subchapter V [§ 621 - § 635]
§ 622. Contracts, etc., with private industry for implementation of projects for improvements and dredging; reduction of federally owned fleet
(a) Contracts for dredging and related work
(b) Reduction of federally owned fleet
(c) Program to increase use of private hopper dredges
(1) Initiation
(2) Ready reserve status for hopper dredge Wheeler
(3) Testing and use of ready reserve hopper dredge
(4) Repair and rehabilitation
(5) Procedures
The Secretary shall develop and implement procedures to ensure that, to the maximum extent practicable, private industry hopper dredge capacity is available to meet both routine and time-sensitive dredging needs. Such procedures shall include—
(A) scheduling of contract solicitations to effectively distribute dredging work throughout the dredging season; and
(B) use of expedited contracting procedures to allow dredges performing routine work to be made available to meet time-sensitive, urgent, or emergency dredging needs.
(6) Report
(7) Limitations
(A) Reductions in status
(B) Increase in assignments of dredging work
(C)
(8) Contracts; payment of capital costs
(Aug. 11, 1888, ch. 860, § 3, 25 Stat. 423; July 25, 1912, ch. 253, § 1, 37 Stat. 222; Mar. 2, 1919, ch. 95, § 3, 40 Stat. 1287; Pub. L. 95–269, § 1, Apr. 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 218; Pub. L. 104–303, title II, § 237, Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3705; Pub. L. 110–114, title II, § 2047(b), Nov. 8, 2007, 121 Stat. 1106.)