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 PUBLIC LAW 100-448—SEPT. 28, 1988

102 STAT. 1847

vessels as opposed to the costs and benefits that can be derived from buying such icebreakers; and (4) recommendations for such funding and legislation as may be necessary to obtain such polar icebreaking vessels as are needed to meet national requirements. SEC. 24. TWO-YEAR BUDGET CYCLE FOR COAST GUARD.

31 USC 1105

(a) OPINION OF CONGRESS.—It is the opinion of the Congress that the programs and activities of the Coast Guard could be more effectively and efficiently planned and managed if funds for the Coast Guard were provided on a 2-year cycle rather than annually. (b) SUBMISSION OF 2-YEAR BUDGET BY PRESIDENT.—The President

shall include in the budget for fiscal year 1990 submitted to the Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, a single proposed budget for the Coast Guard for fiscal years 1990 and 1991. Thereafter, the President shall submit a proposed 2-year budget for the Coast Guard every other year. (c) REPORT.—Not later than October 1, 1988, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives a report containing— (1) the Secretary's views on the advantages and disadvantages of operating the Coast Guard on a 2-year budget cycle; (2) the Secretary's plans for converting to a 2-year budget cycle; and (3) a description of any impediments (statutory or otherwise) to converting the operations of the Coast Guard to a 2-year budget cycle beginning with fiscal year 1990. SEC. 25. COAST GUARD BUDGET ESTIMATES.

Section 663 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: "Not later than 30 days after the date on which the President submits to the Congress a budget under section 1105 of title 31 which includes a proposed 2-year budget for the Coast Guard, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, detailed Coast Guard budget estimates for the fiscal years covered by such proposed 2-year budget.". SEC. 26. CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN VESSELS.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 17 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: "§ 665. Restriction on construction of vessels in foreign shipyards "(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no Coast Guard vessel, and no major component of the hull or superstructure of a Coast Guard vessel, may be constructed in a foreign shipyard. "(h) The President may authorize exceptions to the prohibition in subsection (a) when the President determines that it is in the national security interest of the United States to do so. The Presi- President of U.S. dent shall transmit notice to Congress of any such determination. Contracts, and no contract may be made pursuant to the exception authorized

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