Sec. 4. Expenditures of Maritime Goods Movement User Fee
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Up to $10,000,000 of the amount of the Maritime Goods Movement User Fees collected during any fiscal year shall be available for payment of expenses of administration incurred by the Department of Homeland Security, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Department of Transportation. The amounts of the Maritime Goods Movement User Fees collected for a fiscal year that are not used for administration under subsection
(a)shall be allocated as follows: For the first 5 fiscal years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act, 95 percent, and for each fiscal year thereafter 80 percent, of such amounts shall be available to pay up to 100 percent of the eligible operations and maintenance costs assigned to commercial navigation of all harbors and inland harbors within the United States, as authorized by section 210(a)(2) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 ( 33 U.S.C. 2238(a)(2) ), including the Federal share of the cost of— maintenance of Federal navigation projects to their authorized depths and widths; disposal of maintenance dredged material; construction and maintenance of dredged material placement facilities; projects or activities for the beneficial use of dredged material or sand mitigation; jetties, breakwaters, bridges, and other navigation structures; and related studies and surveys. Of the amounts made available each fiscal year for harbor maintenance programs under paragraph (1), up to 8 percent shall be allocated for low-use ports. Special emphasis shall be placed on low-use ports where there is a Coast Guard presence and low-use ports which the Coast Guard determines to be restricted navigation areas or harbors of refuge. For each fiscal year beginning with the sixth fiscal year beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act, 15 percent of the amounts of the Maritime Goods Movement User Fee not used for administration under subsection (a), shall be allocated to super donor ports to carry out projects or activities described in paragraphs (1), (2), and
(3)of section 5(e). For each fiscal year beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act, 5 percent of the amounts of the Maritime Goods Movement User Fee not used for administration under subsection
(a)shall be allocated to carry out projects or activities described in paragraphs (4), (5), and
(6)of subsection 5(e).
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