Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73
§8676a Vessels stricken from Naval Vessel Register: use for experimental purposes
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— - Navy and Marine Corps › Part PART IV— - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › Chapter CHAPTER 863— - NAVAL VESSELS › § 8676a
Summary
The Secretary of the Navy may use any ship removed from the Navy's ship list for experiments, including sink exercises and target practice. Before using a ship, the Navy must strip parts and do environmental cleanup. Stripped parts may be sold by the contractor or an approved agent. Sale money must first pay stripping and cleanup costs, and any leftover goes back into the same account for future stripping and cleanup.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §8676a
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(a)The Secretary of the Navy may use for experimental purposes any vessel stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
(b)(1)Before using a vessel for an experimental purpose pursuant to subsection (a), the Secretary shall carry out such stripping of the vessel as is practicable and such environmental remediation of the vessel as is required for the use of the vessel for experimental purposes.
(2)Material and equipment stripped from a vessel under paragraph (1) may be sold by the contractor or by a sales agent approved by the Secretary.
(3)Amounts received as proceeds from the stripping of a vessel pursuant to this subsection shall be credited to appropriations available for the procurement of services needed for such stripping and for environmental remediation required for the use of the vessel for experimental purposes. Amounts received in excess of amounts needed for reimbursement of those costs shall be deposited into the account from which the stripping and environmental remediation expenses were incurred and shall be available for stripping and environmental remediation of other vessels to be used for experimental purposes.
(c)In this section, the term “use for experimental purposes”, with respect to a vessel, includes use of the vessel in a Navy sink exercise or for target purposes.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7306a of this title as this section. 2003—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–136, § 1012(a)(1), inserted “and Environmental Remediation of” before “Vessel” in heading. Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 108–136, § 1012(a)(2), inserted before period at end “and such environmental remediation of the vessel as is required for the use of the vessel for experimental purposes”. Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 108–136, § 1012(b)(2), added par. (2). Former par. (2) redesignated (3). Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 108–136, § 1012(b)(1), (3), redesignated par. (2) as (3) and substituted “services needed for such stripping and for environmental remediation required for the use of the vessel for experimental purposes. Amounts received in excess of amounts needed for reimbursement of those costs shall be deposited into the account from which the stripping and environmental remediation expenses were incurred and shall be available for stripping and environmental remediation of other vessels to be used for experimental purposes” for “scrapping services needed for such stripping. Amounts received which are in excess of amounts needed for procuring such services shall be deposited into the general fund of the Treasury”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 108–136, § 1012(c), added subsec. (c).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of
Amendments
and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 8676a
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73