Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-83
§891f Use of Vessels
Title 33 › Chapter 17— NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION › Subchapter III— NOAA FLEET MODERNIZATION › § 891f
Summary
The Secretary, through the NOAA official in charge of marine and aviation operations, must use spare space on UNOLS vessels when it makes sense and may make formal agreements with those vessel operators to do so.
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Title 33, §891f
Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
In implementing the NOAA fleet replacement and modernization program, the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Administrator of NOAA for Marine and Aviation Operations, shall use excess capacity of UNOLS vessels where appropriate and may enter into memoranda of agreement with the operators of these vessels to carry out this requirement.
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2025—Pub. L. 119–60 struck out subsec. (a) designation and heading “Vessel Agreements” and struck out subsec. (b), which required the Comptroller General to provide a report within one year after October 29, 1992 comparing the cost-efficiency, accounting, and operating practices of the vessels of NOAA, UNOLS, other Federal agencies, and the United States private sector in meeting the missions of NOAA.
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33 U.S.C. § 891f
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 18, 2026
Release point: 119-83