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Title 14 — Coast GuardRelease 119-83

§903 Use of Certain Appropriated Funds

Title 14 › Subtitle SUBTITLE I— ESTABLISHMENT, POWERS, DUTIES, AND ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 9— ADMINISTRATION › Subchapter I— REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY › § 903

Last updated Apr 18, 2026|Official source

Summary

Money given to the Coast Guard for buying, building, or improving things, or for research, stays available until it is all spent. The Coast Guard can also use other construction funds to fix, replace, or buy sites for damaged facilities. Those same construction funds can be used to add or change permanent or temporary public works at Coast Guard sites, but not family housing, and no single project can cost more than $200,000. Each year the Coast Guard can spend up to $2,000,000 from its operations money on small construction or improvement projects anywhere. By the time the President’s budget goes to Congress each year, the Secretary must send a report to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation listing any of those projects that cost more than $1,000,000 in the last fiscal year. If there were none, no report is needed.

Full Legal Text

Title 14, §903

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(a)Funds appropriated to or for the use of the Coast Guard for procurement, construction, and improvement of facilities and for research and development shall remain available until expended.
(b)The Secretary may use any funds appropriated to or for the use of the Coast Guard for other construction purposes to restore, repair, or replace facilities that have been damaged or destroyed, including acquisition of sites.
(c)The Secretary may use any funds appropriated to or for the use of the Coast Guard for other construction purposes to acquire, construct, convert, extend, and install at Coast Guard installations and facilities, needed permanent or temporary public works, including the preparation of sites and the furnishing of appurtenances, utilities, and equipment, but excluding the construction of family quarters, costing not more than $200,000 for any one project.
(d)(1)Subject to the reporting requirements set forth in paragraph (2), each fiscal year the Secretary may expend from amounts made available for the operations and support of the Coast Guard not more than $2,000,000 for minor construction and improvement projects at any location.
(2)Not later than the date on which the President submits to Congress a budget under section 1105 of title 31 each year, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report describing each project carried out under paragraph (1), in the most recently concluded fiscal year, for which the amount expended under such paragraph for such project was more than $1,000,000. If no such project was carried out during a fiscal year, no report under this paragraph shall be required with respect to that fiscal year.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification section 8513(a)(2)(B) of Pub. L. 116–283 amended subsec. (d)(1) of this section “amended by section 241(b)(1)”. section 241(a), (b) of Pub. L. 116–283, set out as a note preceding section 501 of Title 10, Armed Forces, does not amend this section. section 261(a)(1) of S. 2297, 116th Congress, known as the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2019, as reported to the Senate, would have amended subsec. (d)(1) of this title by striking “reporting” and inserting “briefing”. S. 2297 was not enacted into law.

Amendments

2025—Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 119–60 substituted “$2,000,000” for “$1,500,000”. 2021—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–283, § 8513(a)(2)(A), substituted “procurement,

Construction

, and improvement of facilities and for research and development” for “acquisition,

Construction

, and improvement of facilities, for research, development, test, and evaluation; and for the alteration of bridges over the navigable waters”. Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 116–283, § 8513(a)(2)(B), substituted “operations and support” for “operating expenses”. 2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 656 of this title as this section. 2014—Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 113–281 amended par. (2) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report on each project undertaken during the course of the preceding fiscal year for which the amount expended under paragraph (1) exceeded $500,000.” 2012—Pub. L. 112–213, § 212(b)(1), substituted “Use of certain appropriated funds” for “Use of moneys appropriated for acquisition,

Construction

, and improvement; for research, development, test, and evaluation; and for the alteration of bridges over the navigable waters” in section catchline. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 112–213, § 212(a), added subsec. (d). 1974—Pub. L. 93–283, § 1(9)(A), substituted “Use of moneys appropriated for acquisition,

Construction

, and improvement; for research, development, test, and evaluation; and for the alteration of bridges over the navigable waters” for “Use of appropriations to restore, replace, establish, or develop facilities” in section catchline. Pub. L. 93–283, § 1(9)(B), (C), added subsec. (a) and redesignated former subsecs. (a) and (b) as (b) and (c), respectively.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

14 U.S.C. § 903

Title 14 — Coast Guard

Last Updated

Apr 18, 2026

Release point: 119-83