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§1106 Reports to Congress

Title 33 › Chapter 22— SEA GRANT COLLEGES AND MARINE SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT › Subchapter I— MARINE RESOURCES AND ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT › § 1106

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Summary

The President must send Congress a report every two years in January. The report must describe all U.S. agencies’ marine science work and results from the previous fiscal year and say how that work measured up to the Act’s goals. The report must also include any law changes the President thinks are needed or helpful to meet those goals and give a funding estimate for each agency’s marine science activities for the next fiscal year.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §1106

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(a)The President shall transmit to the Congress biennially in January a report, which shall include (1) a comprehensive description of the activities and the accomplishments of all agencies and departments of the United States in the field of marine science during the preceding fiscal year, and (2) an evaluation of such activities and accomplishments in terms of the objectives set forth pursuant to this Act.
(b)Reports made under this section shall contain such recommendations for legislation as the President may consider necessary or desirable for the attainment of the objectives of this Act, and shall contain an estimate of funding requirements of each agency and department of the United States for marine science activities during the succeeding fiscal year.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 89–454, June 17, 1966, 80 Stat. 203, which, at the time this section was enacted, consisted only of sections 1 to 9, which are classified generally to this subchapter. Pub. L. 89–688, § 2, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 1001, redesignated the Act as title I and made conforming

Amendments

, substituting references to title I for previous references to the Act as a whole, but not in this section. Pub. L. 89–454 was amended by Pub. L. 89–688 by adding title II, which is classified generally to subchapter II of this chapter, and later by Pub. L. 92–583 by adding title III, which is classified generally to chapter 33 (§ 1451 et seq.) of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Amendments

1986—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99–386 substituted “biennially in January” for “in January of each year”.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 1106

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60