§907 — Title 14 Coast Guard | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary may rent land or property for special Coast Guard facilities for up to 20 years, if money is available. Leases can cover sites like aids to navigation, vessel traffic sensors, or high antenna sites for the distress system. Leases must include fair cancellation and end clauses. Cancellation payments may pay both regular and one-time costs, and money already set aside for the contract can be used for those payments. Special purpose facilities are places used for Coast Guard aviation, maritime, or navigation missions, not ordinary offices or storage. ATON means aids to navigation sites. VTS means vessel traffic service sensor sites. NDS means National Distress System high-level antenna sites. The Secretary can sign multiyear leases for ATON, VTS, or NDS sites only when three things are true: it will make the program more efficient and lower total costs, the need for the site is expected to stay about the same during the lease, and the cost and savings estimates are realistic.

Title 14, §907

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(a)The Secretary is authorized, subject to the availability of appropriations, to enter into lease agreements to acquire real property or interests therein for a term not to exceed 20 years, inclusive of any automatic renewal clauses, for special purpose facilities, including, aids to navigation (hereafter in this section referred to as “ATON”) sites, vessel traffic service (hereafter in this section referred to as “VTS”) sensor sites, or National Distress System (hereafter in this section referred to as “NDS”) high level antenna sites. These lease agreements shall include cancellation and termination provisions to the extent necessary to protect the best interests of the United States. Cancellation payment provisions may include consideration of both recurring and nonrecurring costs associated with the real property interests under the contract. These lease agreements may provide for a cancellation payment to be made. Amounts that were originally obligated for the cost of the contract may be used for cancellation or termination costs.

(b)For purposes of this section, the term “special purpose facilities” means any facilities used to carry out Coast Guard aviation, maritime, or navigation missions other than general purpose office and storage space facilities.

(c)In the case of ATON, VTS, or NDS sites, the Secretary may enter into multiyear lease agreements under subsection (a) of this section whenever the Secretary finds that—

(1)the use of such a lease agreement will promote the efficiency of the ATON, VTS, or NDS programs and will result in reduced total costs under the agreement;

(2)the minimum need for the real property or interest therein to be leased is expected to remain substantially unchanged during the contemplated lease period; and

(3)the estimates of both the cost of the lease and the anticipated cost avoidance through the use of a multiyear lease are realistic.

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2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 672 of this title as this section. 2004—Pub. L. 108–293, § 212(a)(1), added section catchline and struck out former section catchline which read as follows: “Long-term lease authority for navigation and communications systems sites”. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 108–293, § 212(a)(2), inserted “special purpose facilities, including,” after “automatic renewal clauses, for”. Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 108–293, § 212(a)(3), added subsec. (b), redesignated former subsec. (b) as (c), and substituted “In the case of ATON, VTS, or NDS sites, the” for “The” in introductory provisions. 1996—Pub. L. 104–324 added section catchline and struck out former section catchline.

§907 Long-term Lease of Special Purpose Facilities

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Title 14, §907

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