Sec. 710. Report on professional mariner staffing models
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Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the committees specified in subsection
(c)a report on staffing issues relating to professional mariners within the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report required by subsection
(a)shall include consideration of— the challenges the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations faces in recruiting and retaining qualified professional mariners; workforce planning efforts to address those challenges; and other models or approaches that exist, or are under consideration, to provide incentives for the retention of qualified professional mariners. The committees specified in this subsection are— the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives. In this section, the term professional mariner means an individual employed on a vessel of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who has the necessary expertise to serve in the engineering, deck, steward, or survey department.