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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 3080 (EAS) — 113 HR 3080 EAS: Water Resources Development Act of 2013 · Sec. 8003

Sec. 8003. Funding for harbor maintenance programs

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In this section: The term total budget resources means the total amount made available by appropriations Acts from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for a fiscal year for making expenditures under section 9505(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The term level of receipts plus interest means the level of taxes and interest credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund under section 9505 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for a fiscal year as set forth in the President’s budget baseline projection, as determined under section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 907 ) for that fiscal year submitted pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code.
The total budget resources made available to the Secretary from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund shall be not less than the lesser of— for fiscal year 2014, $1,000,000,000; for fiscal year 2015, $1,100,000,000; for fiscal year 2016, $1,200,000,000; for fiscal year 2017, $1,300,000,000; for fiscal year 2018, $1,400,000,000; and for fiscal year 2019, $1,500,000,000; and the level of receipts plus interest credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for that fiscal year. For fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter, the total budget resources made available to the Secretary from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund shall be not less than the level of receipts plus interest credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for that fiscal year.
The amounts described in paragraph
(1)may be used only for harbor maintenance programs described in section 9505(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Subject to paragraph (3), subsection (b)(1) shall not apply if providing the minimum resources required under that subsection would result in making the amounts made available for the applicable fiscal year to carry out all programs, projects, and activities of the civil works program of the Corps of Engineers, other than the harbor maintenance programs, to be less than the amounts made available for those purposes in the previous fiscal year. For each fiscal year, the amounts made available to carry out all programs, projects, and activities of the civil works program of the Corps of Engineers shall not include any amounts that are designated by Congress— as being for emergency requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A)(i) ); or as being for disaster relief pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(D) ). Paragraph
(1)shall not apply if— amounts made available for the civil works program of the Corps of Engineers for a fiscal year are less than the amounts made available for the civil works program in the previous fiscal year; and the reduction in amounts made available— applies to all discretionary funds and programs of the Federal Government; and is applied to the civil works program in the same percentage and manner as other discretionary funds and programs.
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