§55603 — Title 46 Shipping | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary can make plans to promote using marine highways to move passengers and cargo. The Secretary makes these plans with federal, state, local, Tribal, and private partners. If the Secretary acts, they can check how much governments include marine options in planning; ask state and Tribal transportation departments to add marine highways, ferries, and similar services for regional and interstate travel; and encourage groups of states and Tribes to study whether marine highways can reduce congestion and bottlenecks.

Title 46, §55603

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(a)The Secretary, in consultation with Federal entities, State and local governments, Tribal governments, and appropriate private sector entities, may develop strategies to encourage the use of marine highway transportation for transportation of passengers and cargo.

(b)If the Secretary develops strategies under subsection (a), the Secretary may—

(1)assess the extent to which States, local governments, and Tribal governments include marine highway transportation and other marine transportation solutions in transportation planning;

(2)encourage State and Tribal departments of transportation to develop strategies, where appropriate, to incorporate marine highway transportation, ferries, and other marine transportation solutions for regional and interstate transport of freight and passengers in transportation planning; and

(3)encourage groups of States, Tribal governments, and multistate transportation entities to determine how marine highways can address congestion, bottlenecks, and other interstate transportation challenges.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 55603, added Pub. L. 110–140, title XI, § 1121(a), Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1761, which related to an interagency board to identify and seek solutions to impediments hindering effective use of short sea transportation, was repealed by Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXIII [LXXXIII], § 8332(d)(1), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4704.

§55603 Multistate, State, Tribal, and regional transportation planning

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Title 46, §55603

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