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 100 STAT. 4102

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33 USC 2234.

PUBLIC LAW 99-662—NOV. 17, 1986

the minimum amount of additional time necessary to revise its original application to meet the objections of a Federal, State, or local agency which is a party to the agreement. (g) PROGRESS REPORTS.—Six months before the final date of the schedule, the Secretary shall provide to Congress a written progress report for each navigation project for a harbor or inland harbor subject to this section. The Secretary shall transmit the report to the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate. The report shall summarize all work completed under the agreement and shall include a detailed work program that will assure completion of all remaining work under the agreement. (h) FINAL DECISION.—Not later than the final day of the schedule, the Secretary shall notify the non-Federal interest of the final decision on the project and whether the permit or permits have been issued. (i) REPORT ON TIMESAVINGS METHODS.—Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall prepare and transmit to Congress a report estimating the time required for the issuance of all Federal, State, and local permits for the construction of navigation projects for harbors or inland harbors and associated activities. The Secretary shall include in that report recommendations for further reducing the amount of time required for the issuance of those permits, including any proposed changes in existing law.

SEC. 206. NONAPPLICABILITY TO SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY. Sections 203, 204, and 205 do not apply to any harbor or inland harbor project for that portion of the Saint Lawrence Seaway administered by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. 33 USC 2235. SEC. 207. CONSTRUCTION IN USABLE INCREMENTS. "' ^. Any navigation project for a harbor or inland harbor authorized by this title or any other provision of law enacted before, on, or after the date of enactment of this title may be constructed in usable increments. 33 USC 2236. SEC. 208. PORT OR HARBOR DUES. Maritime affairs. (a) CONSENT OF CONGRESS.—Subject to the following conditions, a £°™™®'^'^® ^^^ non-Federal interest may levy port or harbor dues (in the form of trade. '' tonnage duties or fees) on a vessel engaged in trade entering or departing from a harbor and on cargo loaded on or unloaded from that vessel under clauses 2 and 3 of section 10, and under clause 3 of section 8, of Article 1 of the Constitution: (1) PURPOSES.—Port or harbor dues may be levied only in ^. ^ conjunction with a harbor navigation project whose construction is complete (including a usable increment of the project) and for the following purposes and in amounts not to exceed those necessary to carry out those purposes: (A)(i) to finance the non-Federal share of construction and operation and maintenance costs of a navigation •^ ic, V project for a harbor under the requirements of section 101 ^vMf-If'i of this Act; or „,,;,,,^„ •^,»,^..Mi,.« -..,.....i,ivj.>A^...-•.•. ^u.-,.,.-.i^t.^

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