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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
Summary
Every two years in January the President must send Congress a report describing and evaluating all U.S. agencies and departments' marine science efforts during the preceding fiscal year against the Act's objectives, and give legislative recommendations plus funding estimates for agencies and departments for the succeeding fiscal year.
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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.
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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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33 U.S.C. § 1106
Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters
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Aug 21, 2026
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