Sec. 3534. Maritime workforce working group
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Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Maritime Administrator, in consultation with the National Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee, the National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee, the National Towing Safety Advisory Committee, and the Committee on the Marine Transportation System, shall convene a working group to examine and assess the size of the pool of mariners with covered credentials necessary to support the United States flag fleet.
The Maritime Administrator shall designate individuals to serve as members of the working group convened under subsection (a). The working group shall include at least one representative from each of— the Maritime Administrator, who shall serve as chairperson of the working group; the United States Merchant Marine Academy; the Coast Guard; the Military Sealift Command; the Navy; the State maritime academies; the owners and operators of United States-flagged vessels engaged in offshore oil and gas exploration, development, and production; the owners and operators of United States-flagged vessels engaged in offshore wind exploration, development, and production; the owners and operators of United States-flagged vessels engaged in inland river transportation; a nonprofit labor organization representing a class of licensed or unlicensed engine department mariners who are employed on vessels operating in the United States flag fleet; a nonprofit labor organization representing a class of licensed or unlicensed mariners who are employed on vessels operating in the United States flag fleet; the owners of vessels operating in the United States flag fleet, or their private contracting parties, that are primarily operating in international transportation;
Centers of Excellence for Maritime Training designated under section 51706 of title 46, United States Code; and private maritime training providers. The Maritime Administrator may convene the working group virtually and without all members present. The working group shall carry out the following responsibilities: Review the report required by section 3525(b), and the study required by section 3545(a), of the James Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 ( Public Law 117–263 ), if available.
Identify the number of mariners with covered credentials in each of the following categories: All such mariners. Such mariners who have a valid Coast Guard merchant mariner credential with the necessary endorsements for service on unlimited tonnage vessels that are subject to the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, as amended. Such mariners who are participating in a Federal program that supports the United States merchant marine and the United States flag fleet.
Such mariners who are available to crew the United States flag fleet and the surge sealift fleet in times of a national emergency. Such mariners who are full-time. Such mariners who are merchant mariner credentialed officers in the United States Navy Reserve. Assess the effect on the United States merchant marine and United States Merchant Marine Academy if graduates from State maritime academies and the United States Merchant Marine Academy were assigned to, or required to fulfill, certain maritime positions based on the overall needs of the United States merchant marine.
Assess the accessibility of Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Licensing and Documentation System data for mariners with covered credentials, the maritime industry, and the Maritime Administration for the purposes of evaluating the pool of mariners with covered credentials. Make recommendations to enhance the availability and quality of interagency data, including data from the United States Transportation Command, the Coast Guard, the Navy, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, for use by the Maritime Administration in evaluating the pool of mariners with covered credentials.
Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report that contains the findings and conclusions of the working group gathered in the course of performing the responsibilities under subsection (d).
Such report shall include each of the following: The number of mariners with covered credentials identified for each category described in subparagraphs
(A)through
(F)of subsection (d)(2). The results of the assessments conducted under paragraphs
(3)and
(4)of subsection (d). The recommendations made under subsection (d)(5). Such other information as the working group determines appropriate. In this section, the term covered credential means any credential issued under part E of subtitle II of title 46, United States Code. The Maritime Administrator shall disband the working group upon the submission of the report required under subsection (e).
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