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 98 STAT. 1014

Post, p. 1020. 97 Stat. 594.

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PUBLIC LAW 98-369—JULY 18, 1984

"(a) The Secretary may expend in each of the fiscal years 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988, subject to amounts as are provided in appropriations laws for liquidation of contract authority, an amount equal to two-thirds of the amount transferred for such fiscal year to the Boat Safety Account under section 9503(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 9503(c)(4)). The amount shall be allocated as provided under section 13103 of this title 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 vinobligated 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 may 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 or titling programs. "(c) An amount equal to one-third of the amount transferred for each fiscal year to the Boat Safety Account under section 9503(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 9503(c)(4)) is available to the Secretary for expenditures out of the operating expenses account of the Coast Guard for services provided by the Coast Guard for recreational boating safety, including services provided by the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Amounts made available by this subsection shall remain available until expended." SEC. 1013. EFFECTIVE DATE.

The amendments made by this subpart shall take effect on October 1, 1984, and shall apply with respect to fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1984..,^. _, u.^

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