Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 117.djvu/1611

 117 STAT. 1592

PUBLIC LAW 108–136—NOV. 24, 2003

‘‘(1) in the case of a decommissioned vessel that— ‘‘(A) is owned and maintained by the Navy, is located at a Navy facility, and is not in active use; and ‘‘(B) is being transferred to an entity designated by the Secretary of the Navy or by law to receive transfer of the vessel; and ‘‘(2) in the case of any shipboard equipment that— ‘‘(A) is on a vessel described in paragraph (1)(A); and ‘‘(B) is being transferred to an entity designated by the Secretary of the Navy or by law to receive transfer of the equipment. ‘‘(c) REIMBURSEMENT.—The Secretary may require a recipient of assistance under subsection (a) to reimburse the Navy for amounts expended by the Navy in providing the assistance. ‘‘(d) DEPOSIT OF FUNDS RECEIVED.—Funds received in a fiscal year under subsection (c) shall be credited to the appropriation available for such fiscal year for operation and maintenance for the office of the Navy managing inactive ships, shall be merged with other sums in the appropriation that are available for such office, and shall be available for the same purposes and period as the sums with which merged.’’. (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: ‘‘7316. Support for transfers of decommissioned vessels and shipboard equipment.’’. SEC. 1016. ADVANCED SHIPBUILDING ENTERPRISE.

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: (1) The President’s budget for fiscal year 2004, as submitted to Congress, includes $10,300,000 for the Advanced Shipbuilding Enterprise of the National Shipbuilding Research Program. (2) The Advanced Shipbuilding Enterprise is an innovative program to encourage greater efficiency among shipyards in the defense industrial base. (3) The leaders of the Nation’s shipbuilding industry have embraced the Advanced Shipbuilding Enterprise as a method of exploring and collaborating on innovation in shipbuilding and ship repair that collectively benefits all manufacturers in the industry. (b) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the Congress strongly supports the innovative Advanced Shipbuilding Enterprise of the National Shipbuilding Research Program that has yielded new processes and techniques to reduce the cost of building and repairing ships in the United States; (2) the Congress is concerned that the future-years defense program submitted to Congress for fiscal year 2004 does not reflect any funding for the Advanced Shipbuilding Enterprise after fiscal year 2004; and (3) the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Navy should continue funding the Advanced Shipbuilding Enterprise at a sustaining level through the future-years defense program to support subsequent rounds of research that reduce the cost of designing, building, and repairing ships.

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