Summary: Division A: Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2008 - Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2008 - Title I: Authorization - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 for the Coast Guard for: (1) Coast Guard operation and maintenance, with a portion to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for certain purposes under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA purposes); (2) acquisition, construction, rebuilding, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities, vessels, and aircraft, including related equipment (designating an amount for the Integrated Deepwater System Program and a Fund amount for OPA purposes); (3) Coast Guard research, development, test, and evaluation of technologies, materials, and human factors, with a portion from the Fund for OPA purposes; (4) retired pay, payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefit Plans, and payments for medical care of retired personnel and their dependents; (5) alteration or removal of bridges over U.S. navigable waters constituting navigation obstructions, and for the Bridge Alteration Program; (6) environmental compliance and restoration at Coast Guard facilities; and (7) the Coast Guard Reserve program, including personnel and training costs, equipment, and services. (Sec. 102) Authorizes the Coast Guard active duty personnel end-of-year strength and average military training student loads. (Sec. 103) Transfers to the Secretary of Transportation, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authorities of the Secretary of Homeland Security to approve the construction, alteration, or operation of a bridge, drawbridge, or causeway over U.S. navigable waters and to require the alteration, repair, or removal of that bridge, drawbridge, or causeway. Title II: Coast Guard - (Sec. 201) Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to appoint civilian employees of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating as appellate military judges, available for assignment to the Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals. (Sec. 202) Allows Coast Guard industrial activities to accept orders and enter into reimbursable agreements with establishments, agencies, and departments of the Department of Defense. (Sec. 203) Requires reimbursement for medical-related travel expenses for certain persons residing on islands in the continental United States. (Sec. 204) Revises requirements regarding the number and distribution of commissioned officers on the active duty promotion list. (Sec. 205) Removes provisions excluding the Coast Guard from provisions relating to Armed Forces Retirement homes. (Authorizes Coast Guard participation in the Armed Forces Retirement Home system.) (Sec. 206) Authorizes grants to, or cooperative agreements, contracts, or other agreements with, international maritime organizations to acquire information about merchant vessel inspections, security, safety, classification, and port state or flag state law enforcement or oversight. (Sec. 207) Allows a Coast Guard member who serves on active duty in support of a declaration of a major disaster or emergency by the President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to retain accumulated leave that otherwise would be forfeited at the end of a fiscal year. (Sec. 208) Allows Coast Guard members, in their official duties, to carry a firearm and, while at a facility: (1) make an arrest without a warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence; and (2) as otherwise provided by law, seize property. (Sec. 209) Repeals a provision requiring that the initial appointment of the Director of the Boating Safety Office be in the grade of Captain. (Sec. 210) Requires that the Coast Guard Vice Commandant have the grade of admiral while serving as Vice Commandant. Replaces provisions authorizing the appointment of Atlantic and Pacific area commanders with provisions authorizing appointment of a Deputy Commandant for Mission Support, a Deputy Commandant for National Operations and Policy, a Commander for the Force Readiness Command, and a Commander of Operations Command, all to have the grade of vice admiral while serving in those positions. Removes provisions allowing the appointment of a Coast Guard Chief of Staff. (Sec. 211) Establishes the Merchant Mariner Medical Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary regarding medical certification determinations for issuance of merchant mariner credentials, medical standards and guidelines for the physical qualifications of operators of commercial vessels, medical examiner education, and medical research. (Sec. 212) Authorizes the appointment of temporary commissioned officers in: (1) the Regular Coast Guard from among holders of merchant seamen licenses (under current law, from among licensed officers of the U.S. merchant marine); and (2) the Coast Guard Reserve from among Coast Guard Reserve commissioned warrant officers. (Sec. 213) Modifies requirements regarding selection boards. (Sec. 214) Directs the Secretary to test and report to specified congressional committees on an integrated laser engagement system for training Coast Guard members assigned to small vessels in the use of individual weapons and machine guns on those vessels. (Sec. 215) Allows firing at or into a vessel that fails to stop on being ordered to do so if the firing vessel or aircraft is on government noncommercial service and is under Coast Guard tactical control and at least one Coast Guard member is assigned and conducting a Coast Guard mission on the vessel or aircraft. (Permits indemnification of Coast Guard personnel so firing if death or injury results.) Requires that vessels and aircraft designated by the Secretary (under current law, that Coast Guard vessels and aircraft) be distinguished by an identifying insignia. (Sec. 216) Requires the Coast Guard Commandant to appoint a Coast Guard employee as an ombudsman in each Coast Guard district to serve as a liaison between ports, terminal operators, shipowners, and labor representatives and the Coast Guard, including examining complaints by a petitioner operating in a port or by Coast Guard personnel. (Sec. 217) Directs the Secretary to include in each Coast Guard procurement contract a requirement that the contractor, in accordance with other applicable requirements, award subcontracts to small businesses, including regarding socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, women, service-disabled veterans, HUBZone small businesses, institutions receiving assistance under specified provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965, and Alaska Native Corporations. Directs the Secretary to seek to facilitate award of contracts under the Integrated Deepwater Systems Program to alliances of such small businesses, institutions, and corporations. Requires an annual report to specified congressional committees . (Sec. 218) Establishes in the Coast Guard an Assistant Commandant for Port and Waterway Security and requires that position to be a rear admiral or civilian from the Senior Executive Service (career reserved) selected by the Secretary. (Sec. 219) Requires, except to the extent that the Secretary determines otherwise, that not less than 10% of the amounts obligated by the Coast Guard for contracts in any fiscal year be expended with small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. (Sec. 220) Authorizes the Coast Guard to enforce provisions of shipping law relating to the coastwise trade, including regarding vessels that support the exploration, development, and production of oil, gas, or mineral resources in the Gulf of Mexico. Requires a report to specified congressional committees. (Sec. 221) Revises requirements regarding the nomination and appointment of Coast Guard cadets, including establishing a competitive system for appointments. Allows some noncompetitive appointments and appointments of individuals from other countries. Establishes a minority recruiting program for prospective cadets at the Coast Guard Academy. (Sec. 222) Requires the Coast Guard Academy's superintendent to prescribe a policy on sexual harassment and sexual violence applicable to the cadets and other personnel of the Academy. Requires an annual report for the next five years to specified congressional committees. (Sec. 223) Allows a Coast Guard vessel with its home port in Guam to be overhauled, repaired, or maintained in a shipyard in Guam. Title III: Shipping and Navigation - (Sec. 301) Allows, notwithstanding any limitation in specified provisions to the contrary, the rebuilding or replacement of a vessel documented under specified provisions with a fishery endorsement in order to improve vessel safety and operational efficiencies (including fuel efficiency). Amends the American Fisheries Act to authorize the North Pacific Council to recommend conservation and management measures for approval by the Secretary of Commerce to ensure that the requirement under this section does not diminish the effectiveness of fishery management plans of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area or the Gulf of Alaska. Sets forth special rules, including rules pertaining to vessel size limits, certain catcher vessels, fishery endorsement limitations, and replacement vessels in the Gulf of Alaska. (Sec. 302) Amends the Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act of 1884 to authorize the levy of nonfederal sales taxes on goods and services provided to or by vessels or watercraft (other than vessels or watercraft primarily engaged in foreign commerce) that operate on U.S. navigable waters. (Sec. 303) Amends the Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act of 1915 to: (1) increase the civil penalty for an owner of a vessel that violates regulations establishing anchorage grounds for safe navigation in U.S. waters; and (2) extend the Coast Guard's authority to establish anchorage grounds for vessels from three nautical miles to 12 nautical miles. (Sec. 304) Subjects any person who knowingly or intentionally possesses a controlled substance on a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to a civil penalty. (Sec. 305) Revises various provisions regarding the measurement of vessels, including changing the definition of "vessel engaged on a foreign voyage" and modifying international tonnage certificate provisions. (Sec. 306) Requires a report to specified congressional committees on: (1) the efficacy of the Coast's Guard's cold weather survival training in Coast Guard District 17 over the last five years; and (2) plans for such training in FY2008-FY2011. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such training in that District 17. (Sec. 307) Amends provisions regarding uninspected commercial fishing industry vessels to revise safety requirements. Establishes a Fishing Safety Training Grants Program to provide funding to conduct commercial fishing vessel safety training and for the purchase of safety equipment and training aids for use in those training programs. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a Fishing Safety Research Grant Program to provide funding to conduct research on methods of improving the safety of the commercial fishing industry, including vessel design, emergency and survival equipment, enhancement of vessel monitoring systems, communications devices, deicing technology, and severe weather detection. Applies existing provisions regarding load lines of vessels to fishing vessels built or having a major conversion completed after January 1, 2008. Modifies the vessels to which certain survey and classification requirements apply or, as of specified dates, will apply. Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to prescribe a safety compliance program, developed in cooperation with the commercial fishing industry, as an alternative to such survey and classification requirements. Requires certain fishing, fish processing, and fish tender vessels to comply with that alternative safety program. (Sec. 308) Modifies record keeping requirements regarding issuances, denials, suspensions, and revocations of licenses, certificates of registry, merchant mariners' documents, and related endorsements. (Sec. 309) Removes provisions exempting certain vessels engaged in the offshore mineral and oil industry from specified towing vessel manning requirements. (Sec. 310) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a liability limit for a deepwater port used only in connection with natural gas transportation. (Sec. 311) Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to require a claim to be presented for recovery of removal costs for an incident within three (under current law, six) years after the date of completion of all removal actions for that incident. (Sec. 312) Requires vessels (except those on a voyage from the United States to Canada) that are subject to inspection under provisions relating to inspection and regulation of vessels to have an official logbook with specified entries. (Sec. 313) Allows an individual authorized to enforce federal shipping law to remove a vessel's certificate, order the individual in charge of the vessel to return the vessel to a mooring, and direct that individual to take steps necessary for the safety of individuals on board. (Sec. 314) Prohibits approval of a survival craft unless the craft ensures that no part of an individual is immersed in water. Prohibits allowing a survival craft that does not meet that requirement to remain in service after January 1, 2013. (Sec. 315) Applies provisions relating to the management of vessels to a passenger or small passenger vessel that is transporting more passengers than a number prescribed by the Secretary based on the number of individuals on the vessel that could be killed or injured in a marine casualty. (Sec. 316) Prohibits discrimination against a seaman for various reasons such as that the seaman testified in a maritime safety law enforcement proceeding or cooperated with a safety investigation. (Sec. 317) Amends the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2004 to extend until September 30, 2011, (or the promulgation of related regulations, whichever is earlier) the authority of the Secretary to regulate incidental discharges of dry bulk cargo into Great Lakes waters. (Current law authorizes the Secretary to regulate such discharges until September 30, 2008, or until the promulgation of related regulations, whichever is earlier.) (Sec. 318) Requires each new U.S. vessel with a building contract date after enactment of this Act or delivered after August 1, 2010, and with an aggregate capacity of 600 cubic meters or more of oil used as fuel to comply with a specified regulation requiring double hulls. (Sec. 319) Prohibits a vessel that lacks a registry endorsement for foreign trade (or trade with Guam, American Samoa, Wake, Midway, or Kingman Reef) from engaging in regasifying on navigable waters unless the vessel transported the gas from a foreign port. Prohibits construing that prohibition as: (1) applying to any structure on, in, or under U.S. navigable waters that the Coast Guard regulates as a waterfront facility handling liquefied natural gas under specified provisions; or (2) having any effect on the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under specified provisions of the Natural Gas Act. (Sec. 320) Repeals provisions requiring an applicant for a license or certificate of registry to take an oath before a designated official that the applicant will perform faithfully and honestly, according to the best skill and judgment of the applicant, all the duties required by law. Repeals provisions requiring an applicant for a merchant mariner's document to take an oath that the applicant will perform faithfully and honestly all the duties required by law and will carry out the lawful orders of superior officers. (Sec. 321) Allows advance renewals of merchant mariners' documents, merchant seamen's licenses, and certificates of registry. (Sec. 322) Prohibits the Secretary, if an individual was fingerprinted when the individual applied for a transportation security card under specified provisions, from requiring the fingerprinting of the individual for the issuance or renewal of a license, certificate of registry, or merchant mariner's document. (Sec. 323) Allows the Secretary to extend for one year a license, certificate of registry, or merchant mariner document to enable the Coast Guard to eliminate a processing backlog. (Sec. 324) Directs the Secretary to develop an interim clearance process for issuance of a merchant mariner document to enable a newly hired seaman to begin working on an offshore supply vessel or towing vessel if the Secretary makes an initial determination that the seaman does not pose a safety and security risk. (Sec. 325) Requires the Commandant to report to specified congressional committees on expanding the streamlined evaluation process program previously affiliated with the Houston Regional Examination Center to all Coast Guard processing centers, including proposals to simplify the application process to help eliminate errors in completing the application form. (Sec. 326) Directs the Secretary of Transportation, through the Administrator of the Maritime Administration, to report to specified congressional committees on methods to address the current and future shortage in the number of merchant mariners, including regarding whether an educational loan program providing loans for the cost of on-the-job training would provide an incentive for workers and help alleviate the shortage. (Sec. 327) Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to submit to specified congressional committees: (1) a plan to ensure that the process for an application (by an individual who has, or has applied for, a transportation security card under specified provisions) for a merchant mariner document can be completed entirely by mail; and (2) a report on the redesign of the merchant mariner document. (Sec. 328) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to report to specified congressional committees: (1) the loss of U.S. shipyard jobs and industrial base expertise as a result of the performance in foreign shipyards of rebuilding, conversion, and double-hull work on U.S.-flag vessels eligible to engage in the coastwise trade; (2) enforcement of the Coast Guard's foreign rebuild determination regulations; and (3) recommendations for improving the transparency in the Coast Guard's foreign rebuild determination process. (Sec. 329) Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to designate by regulation the areas of the approaches to and waters of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, if any, on which certain vessels are not required to be under the direction and control of a pilot. Sets forth pilot licensing requirements applicable to any area of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, where a single-hull tanker or tank vessel carrying 5,000 or more barrels of oil or other hazardous material is required to be under a pilot's direction and control. (Sec. 330) Amends provisions relating to vessels and seamen to remove tonnage criteria from the definition of "offshore supply vessel." Amends the Oceans Act of 1992 to add tonnage criteria to provisions deeming an offshore supply vessel not to be a tank vessel. Adds tonnage criteria to provisions regulating offshore supply vessel watches. Specifies the numbers of licensed mates and licensed engineers required on offshore supply vessels. (Sec. 331) Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees regarding recreational vessel operator training, including Coast Guard Auxiliary and Power Squadron training programs and existing state programs. (Sec. 332) Requires the Commandant to report to specified congressional committees on exhaust emissions reduction technology on cargo or passenger ships in U.S. waters and ports and federal, state, and local requirements that affect the ability to demonstrate onboard technology for the reduction of contaminated emissions from ships. (Sec. 333) Authorizes the Secretary to delegate to the American Bureau of Shipping or another classification society the authority to review and approve plans required for issuing a certificate of inspection or certificate of compliance and conduct inspections and examinations. Imposes certain requirements on a delegation to a foreign classification society. (Sec. 334) Amends the Ports and Waterways Safety Act to require any pilot on certain vessels to obtain training on, carry, and use a portable electronic navigation device capable of being connected to an Automatic Identification System. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - (Sec. 401) Modifies specifications related to the issuance of a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the vessel GALLANT LADY. (Sec. 402) Authorizes the Secretary, notwithstanding specified provisions, to issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the OCEAN VERITAS. (Sec. 403) Requires the National Maritime Enhancement Institute for the Great Lakes region (curently, the Secretary) to conduct maritime transportation studies of the Great Lakes region. Increases the specific studies included. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 404) Directs the Secretary to convey to Nantucket, Massachusetts, the Station Brant Point Boat House located at Coast Guard Station Brant Point, Nantucket, Massachusetts, for use for a public purpose, and to enter into a lease authorizing Nantucket to occupy the land on which the buildings are located. (Sec. 405) Caps the total delayed payment of wages (at ten times the unpaid wages that are subject to the claim) in a class action suit by seamen on a passenger vessel capable of carrying over 500 passengers on foreign, intercoastal, and coastwise voyages when payment of wages is not made by specified deadlines without sufficient cause. Regulates other aspects of seamen's wages regarding such vessels. (Sec. 406) Modifies provisions relating to vessel manning requirements for fish tender vessels in the Aleutian trade. (Sec. 407) Requires the Commandant, on the decommissioning of the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS, to convey the vessel to the USCG Cutter STORIS Museum and Maritime Education Center, LLC, in the state of Alaska, provided certain conditions are met. (Sec. 408) Removes provisions relating to licenses to salvage on the coast of Florida. (Sec. 409) Grants the Town of Jupiter Island, Florida, notwithstanding any other law, a right of first refusal for an exchange of specified real property within the jurisdiction of the Town, including any improvements, for other real property of equal or greater value, for specified uses. (Sec. 410) Authorizes the Commandant, notwithstanding any other law, to convey to Elizabeth City State University in the state of North Carolina an HU-25 Falcon Jet aircraft under the administrative jurisdiction of the Coast Guard if the Commandant makes specified determinations. (Sec. 411) Requires the Commandant, notwithstanding any other law, on the scheduled decommissioning of any Coast Guard 41-foot patrol boat, to give the government of Haiti a right of first refusal for conveyance of that vessel, subject to conditions, including that Haiti use the boat for the Coast Guard of Haiti and make the vessel available to the U.S. government if needed in time of war or national emergency. (Sec. 412) Allows, through the end of 2012 (currently, the end of 2011), chartering of a foreign flag vessel to set, relocate, or recover mooring equipment of a mobile offshore drilling unit located over the Outer Continental Shelf if the Secretary of Transportation makes certain determinations. (Sec. 413) Requires the Commandant, through the appropriate Area Committee under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, to prepare a vessel traffic risk assessment for Cook Inlet, Alaska, and for the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, within two years after the date of enactment of this Act. (Sec. 414) Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the vessel MARYLAND INDEPENDENCE if certain conditions are met. (Sec. 415) Requires the Commandant to study an area commonly identified as Coast Guard Sector Buffalo, located in Buffalo, New York, and report to specified congressional committees on the most cost-effective method for providing shore facilities and the feasibility of consolidating and relocating shore facilities on a portion of the existing site while meeting and expanding Sector Buffalo operational requirements. Requires that the report contain a preliminary plan for the design, engineering, and construction of the proposed project. (Sec. 416) Authorizes the Commandant, notwithstanding the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, to convey to the Sheriff's Departments of Coahoma, Warren, and Washington Counties, Mississippi, Coast Guard trailerable boats and any equipment or parts from other Coast Guard vessels that the Commandant determines are excess to the needs of the Coast Guard and the Department of Homeland Security. (Sec. 419) Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to station additional Coast Guard assets in the United States Virgin Islands for port security and other associated purposes. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 420) Authorizes the Commandant of the Coast Guard to transfer to Presque Isle Township in Presque County, Michigan: (1) possession of the historic Fresnel Lens from the Presque Isle Light Station Lighthouse; and (2) any additional U.S. personal property related to the lens that the Commandant considers appropriate for conveyance. Requires the Township, as condition of the transfer of possession, to install the lens in the Lighthouse as a Class I private aid to navigation. Instructs the Commandant, upon certification of the Commandant that the Township has installed the lens and is able to operate the lens and Lighthouse as a private aid to navigation, to convey to the Township all interest of the United States in and to the lens. Allows the Commandant, if the Commandant conveys the lens to the Township, to convey to the Township any personal property previously transferred to the Township under this Act. (Sec. 421) Declares that a fishery endorsement is not required for a U.S.-documented purse seine tuna fishing vessel home ported in American Samoa while fishing exclusively for highly migratory species under a license issued pursuant to a specified treaty between certain Pacific island states and the United States in the treaty area or in any portion of the U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ) bordering the treaty area. (Sec. 422) Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to report to specified congressional committees on the need for additional Coast Guard prevention and response capability in the high latitude regions, including search and rescue, marine pollution response and prevention, fisheries enforcement, and maritime commerce. (Sec. 423) Directs the Secretary to study, through the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the need for regional response vessel and salvage capability for the state of Washington Olympic Peninsula coast. (Sec. 424) Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees regarding the projected workload for this and the next five calendar years at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland, and the total full-time equivalents to be supported by the account (popularly known as the Yard Fund) in each such year to meet that workload. (Sec. 425) Directs the Secretary of Transportation to report to specified congressional committees regarding the proposed construction or alteration of any bridge, drawbridge, or causeway over navigable waters with a channel depth of 25 feet or greater that may impede or obstruct future navigation to or from port facilities. (Sec. 426) Prohibits the employer of a seaman from withholding state or local taxes, except by voluntary agreement, if the seaman performs regularly-assigned duties while engaged as a master, officer, or crewman on a vessel operating on navigable waters in two or more states (currently, the navigable waters of more than one state). (Sec. 427) Requires the Commandant, notwithstanding any other law and after the government of Haiti has exercised all of their options under this Act, on the scheduled decommissioning of any Coast Guard 41-foot patrol boat, to give the government of Bermuda a right of first refusal for conveyance of that vessel, subject to conditions, including that Bermuda use the boat for the Coast Guard of Bermuda and make the vessel available to the U.S. government if needed in time of war or national emergency. (Sec. 428) Amends the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to modify the definition of "employee" to make it applicable to individuals who are employed to manufacture any recreational vessel under 165 feet in length or are employed to repair any recreational vessel, or to dismantle any part of any recreational vessel in connection with repair of the vessel. (Sec. 429) Authorizes the Commandant, notwithstanding the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, to convey to the Police Department of Nassau County, New York, two Coast Guard 41-foot patrol boats. (Sec. 430) Requires the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to report to specified congressional committees on the public health, safety, and environmental concerns related to the underground petroleum spill on the Brooklyn shoreline of Newtown Creek, New York City, New York, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 431) Authorizes the Commandant to convey real property commonly identified as Coast Guard Station Marquette and Lighthouse Point to the city of Marquette, Michigan. Title V: Ballast Water Treatment - Ballast Water Treatment Act of 2008 - (Sec. 503) Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to replace provisions relating to preventing the introduction and spread of aquatic nuisance species in the Great Lakes through the exchange of ballast water with provisions relating to the introduction and spread of such species from ballast water and other ship-borne vectors. (The new provisions are not focused only on the Great Lakes.) Excludes from these provisions a vessel that carries all of its permanent ballast water in sealed tanks that are not subject to discharge or a vessel that continuously takes on and discharges ballast water in a flow-through system. Excludes vessels of the Armed Forces, but requires the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) and the Secretary of Defense to implement a ballast water management program for Armed Forces vessels consistent with these requirements, including deadlines, and at least as stringent as the requirements issued for such vessels under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Prohibits the uptake or discharge of ballast water or sediment in waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States except as specified in these provisions, subject to exceptions. Requires vessel operators to conduct all ballast water management operations in accordance with an approved ballast water management plan that meets requirements prescribed by regulation. Requires maintenance of a ballast water record book. Prohibits the discharge of ballast water in waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction except after conducting ballast water exchange, using a treatment technology meeting certain requirements, or using environmentally-sound alternative ballast water treatment technology. Allows exceptions, including for safety or stability. Allows waiver for a substantial business hardship. Sets forth exchange and treatment requirements. Sets treatment system implementation deadlines. Authorizes appropriations for the promulgation and implementation of standards. Requires notice to vessel owners and operators of any area in waters subject to the U.S. jurisdiction in which vessels may not uptake ballast water due to known conditions. Prohibits the removal or disposition of sediment from spaces designed to carry ballast water except in accordance with specified requirements, including that the removal or disposition be more than 200 nautical miles from land or into a reception facility meeting certain requirements. Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to inspect vessels and allows states to administer their own inspection and enforcement programs. Requires an annual report on the results of inspection and enforcement activities. Authorizes the Secretary to detain vessels and provides for civil penalties (including in rem liability), criminal penalties, and revocation of clearance. Declares that provisions in this title relating to ballast water exchange requirements and treatment requirements supersede any inconsistent state or local law. Requires a report to specified congressional committees on vessel-borne vectors of aquatic nuisance species and pathogens other than ballast water and sediment, including vessel hulls and equipment and from vessels equipped with ballast tanks that carry no ballast water. (Sec. 504) Directs the Secretary to conduct specified surveys of the number of living organisms in ballast water and report to specified congressional committees. (Sec. 505) Replaces provisions regarding a ballast water management demonstration program with provisions directing the Secretary to establish a Shipboard Technology Evaluation Program to evaluate ballast water treatment technologies aboard vessels. Directs the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere to: (1) conduct a program to demonstrate such ballast water treatment technologies evaluated aboard vessels; (2) establish a grant program to provide funding for acquiring, installing, and operating ballast water treatment technologies aboard vessels participating in the program; and (3) conduct a program to demonstrate and verify technologies and practices to monitor and control the introduction of aquatic invasive species by ship pathways other than the release of ballast water. (Sec. 506) Directs the President to prepare and publish a national rapid response plan for killing, removing, or minimizing the spread of aquatic nuisance species in the waters of the United States. (Sec. 507) Authorizes appropriations to carry out specified provisions of this title and to carry out provisions of existing law relating to the national ballast information clearinghouse. Title VI: Maritime Pollution Prevention - Maritime Pollution Prevention Act of 2008 - (Sec. 604) Amends the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (Act) to provide for the adoption of Annex VI (Prevention of Air Pollution From Ships Enforcement) of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (MARPOL Convention, which includes any Protocols or Annexes entered into force for the United States). Makes the Act, with respect to Annex VI, applicable to: (1) ships in a port, shipyard, offshore terminal, or U.S. internal waters; (2) a ship that is bound for, or departing from, a port, shipyard, offshore terminal, or the internal waters of the United States and is in navigable U.S. waters, an emission control, or other specified area; (3) to a ship that is entitled to fly the flag of, or operating under the authority of, a party to Annex VI and is in navigable U.S. waters, an emission control, or other specified area; and (4) to the extent consistent with international law, to any other ship that is in the U.S. exclusive economic zone or an emission control or other specified area. Authorizes, but does not require with respect to Annex VI, federal agency heads to determine that some or all Act requirements apply regarding vessel air emissions for public vessels operated under an agency's authority. (Sec. 605) Permits only the Administrator (the Administrator) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and no other person, to issue Engine International Air Pollution Prevention certificates in accordance with Annex VI and the International Maritime Organization's Technical Code on Control of Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides from Marine Diesel Engines, on behalf of the United States for a documented U.S. vessel. (Sec. 606) Gives a certificate issued by a country that is a party to the MARPOL Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL Protocol, which includes the Convention) the same validity as a certificate issued by the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard (the Secretary) is operating (currently) or the Administrator. (Sec. 607) Requires the Secretary and the Administrator, after consulting with appropriate federal agencies, jointly to prescribe regulations setting criteria for determining the adequacy of reception facilities for receiving ozone depleting substances, equipment containing such substances, and exhaust gas cleaning residues at a port or terminal, and stating any additional measures and requirements as are appropriate to ensure such adequacy. Revises provisions concerning the denial of entry to a seagoing ship required by the Convention or the Antarctic Protocol to retain onboard while at sea, residues and mixtures containing oil or noxious liquid substances to permit denial of entry to a ship to a port or terminal required by the MARPOL Protocol, the Act, or prescribed regulations relating to the provision of adequate reception facilities for garbage, ozone depleting substances, equipment containing those substances, or exhaust gas cleaning residues, if the port or terminal is not in compliance with the MARPOL Protocol, this Act, or such regulations. (Sec. 608) Authorizes the Secretary to inspect a ship to which the Act applies to verify whether the ship is in compliance with Annex VI to the Convention and the Act and permits either the Secretary or the Administrator to undertake enforcement actions if an inspection or any other information indicates that there is a violation. (Sec. 609) Authorizes the Secretary of State, after consulting with the Secretary (currently) or the Administrator, to act for the United States on Protocol and related amendments. (Sec. 610) Permits the Administrator (currently, only the Secretary) to assess civil penalties. Title VII: Port Security - (Sec. 701) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a program to help prevent acts of terrorism and other activities that jeopardize maritime homeland security by seeking the cooperation of the commercial and recreational boating industries and the public to improve awareness of activity in the maritime domain and report suspicious or unusual activity. (Sec. 702) Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to report to specified congressional committees and to the Comptroller General on the implementation of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program (TWIC). Requires an assessment of that report by the Comptroller General. Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to report to specified congressional committees and to the Comptroller General after completion of the pilot program (required by existing law) to test the business processes, technology, and operational impacts required to deploy transportation security card readers at secure areas of the marine transportation system. Requires an assessment of that report by the Comptroller General. (Sec. 703) Requires the Comptroller General to report to specified congressional committees comparing background records checks required under provisions relating to transportation security cards and those conducted by states for similar homeland security purposes. (Sec. 704) Requires the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security to report to specified congressional committees on the establishment of Interagency Operational Centers for Port Security required by specified provisions of the SAFE Port Act. (Sec. 705) Requires the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to establish at least two maritime security response teams to act as the Coast Guard's rapidly deployable counterterrorism and law enforcement response units that can apply advanced interdiction skills in response to threats of maritime terrorism. (Sec. 706) Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to begin to increase the number of detection canine teams certified by the Coast Guard for maritime-related security by at least 10 canine teams annually through fiscal year 2012 and to encourage owners and operators of port facilities, passenger cruise liners, oceangoing cargo vessels, and other vessels to strengthen security through the use of highly trained detection canine teams. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 707) Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to lend, lease, donate, or otherwise provide equipment, and provide technical training and support, to the owner or operator of a foreign port or facility to assist: (1) in bringing the port or facility into (or exceeding) compliance with applicable International Ship and Port Facility Code standards; and (2) the port or facility in meeting (or exceeding) specified standards. (Sec. 708) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, through the Commandant, to conduct, in the maritime environment, a program for the mobile biometric identification (fingerprint and digital photography images) of suspected individuals, including terrorists, to enhance border security and for other purposes. Requires a report to specified congressional committees regarding the cost of expanding the Coast Guard's biometric identification capabilities for use by the Coast Guard's Deployable Operations Group, cutters, stations, and other deployable maritime teams and any other appropriate Department of Homeland Security maritime vessels and units. (Sec. 709) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to report to specified congressional committees regarding the threat, vulnerability, and consequence of a terrorist attack on gasoline and chemical cargo shipments in port activity areas in the United States. (Sec. 710) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a pilot program to test and deploy preventive radiological or nuclear detection equipment on Coast Guard vessels and other locations. Requires that the pilot program leverage existing federal grant funding. (Sec. 711) Requires the owner or operator of a cruise ship that embarks or disembarks passengers in a United States port to notify the Secretary of Homeland Security of any covered security incident that occurs on the cruise ship in the course of the voyage in which a U.S. person is involved, in conjunction with any advance notice of arrival to a United States port required by certain provisions. Defines "covered security incident" to mean any criminal act or omission that results in death, bodily injury, all sexual assaults and missing persons, or poses a significant threat to the cruise ship, any cruise ship passenger, any port facility, or any person in or near the port. Requires maintenance on a Coast Guard Internet site of a numerical accounting of missing persons and alleged crimes. Requires updating at least quarterly, aggregated by cruise line, with each cruise line identified by name. Requires each cruise line to include on its Internet site a link, available to the public, to such Coast Guard Internet site. (Sec. 712) Modifies requirements regarding port security antiterrorism efforts in ports and facilities in foreign countries and U.S. territories. (Sec. 713) Requires the Comptroller General to report to specified congressional committees on the effects that the Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC) has on companies that employ seasonal employees. (Sec. 714) Requires an independent assessment and report to specified congressional committees comparing the safety and security risk associated with vessel-based and facility-based liquefied natural gas regasification processes conducted within three miles from land versus such processes conducted more than three miles from land. Requires a report to specified congressional committees. (Sec. 715) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish procedures providing for an individual who is required to be fingerprinted for purposes of obtaining a transportation security card under specified provisions to be fingerprinted at any facility operated by or under contract with an agency of the Department of Homeland Security that fingerprints the public. Terminates the directive on December 31, 2012. (Sec. 716) Requires issuance of a biometric transportation security card to an individual issued a license, certificate of registry, or merchant mariners document, and to an an individual engaged on a towing vessel that pushes, pulls, or hauls alongside a tank vessel, if those individuals are allowed unescorted access to a secure area designated in a vessel security plan, unless an individual poses a security risk. (Current law requires issuance, but makes no reference to unescorted access to a secure area.) (Sec. 717) Requires the Comptroller General to report to specified congressional committees regarding methods to conduct a background security investigation of an individual who possesses a biometric identification card that complies with International Labor Convention number 185 that are equivalent to the investigation conducted on individuals applying for a U.S. visa. (Sec. 718) Specifies the composition of the National Maritime Security Advisory Committee and extends its termination date to September 30, 2010. Repeals provisions requiring each committee submit to Congress the committee's recommendation regarding whether the committee should be continued beyond the termination date. (Sec. 719) Requires each facility security plan approved under specified provisions to provide a system for seamen assigned to a vessel at that facility, pilots, and representatives of seamen's welfare and labor organizations to board and depart the vessel through the facility in a timely manner at no cost to the individual. (Sec. 720) Requires the Coast Guard, consistent with other provisions of law, to enforce any security zone established by the Coast Guard around a tanker containing liquefied natural gas. Prohibits any security arrangement approved as part of a facility security plan after enactment of this Act for a liquefied natural gas terminal or to assist in the enforcement of any security zone established by the Coast Guard around a tanker containing liquefied natural gas from being based upon the provision of security by a state or local government unless the state or local government has entered into an arrangement with the terminal operator to provide such services and the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) ensures that the waterborne patrols operated as part of that security arrangement by a state or local government have the training, resources, personnel, equipment, and experience necessary to deter to the maximum extent practicable a transportation security incident. Prohibits the Secretary from approving a facility security plan for a new liquefied natural gas terminal the construction of which is begun after enactment of this Act unless the Coast Guard has available to the sector in which the terminal is located the resources, including state and local government resources, it needs to carry out the navigation and maritime security risk management measures identified in the waterway suitability report prepared pursuant to the Ports and Waterways Safety Act. (Sec. 721) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, consistent with other provisions of law, to notify the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) whether the waterway to a proposed waterside liquefied natural gas facility is suitable for associated marine traffic. Requires FERC to reply by informing the Secretary of Homeland Security of FERC's action under the Natural Gas Act regarding the proposed facility. (Sec. 722) Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to use a secondary authentication system for individuals applying for transportation security cards when fingerprints are not able to be taken or read to enhance transportation security. (Sec. 723) Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to report to specified congressional committees on the extent to which state and local law enforcement entities are augmenting Coast Guard resources by enforcing Coast Guard-imposed security zones around vessels transiting to, through, or from United States ports and conducting port security patrols. (Sec. 724) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) prepare an assessment of the enrollment sites for transportation security cards, including the feasibility of keeping those enrollment sites open 24 hours per day, and 7 days per week, the feasibility of keeping those enrollment sites open after September 25, 2008, and customer service quality; and (2) develop timelines and benchmarks for implementing the assessment findings. Title VIII: Coast Guard Integrated Deepwater Program - Integrated Deepwater Program Reform Act - (Sec. 802) Prohibits the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating from using a private sector entity as a lead systems integrator for future Integrated Deepwater Systems Program (Program) procurements. Allows completion of existing delivery and task orders. Allows the Secretary to obtain assistance from federal agencies and, by grant, contract, or cooperative agreement, from private sector entities. Directs the Secretary, subject to exception, to use full and open competition for certain Deepwater Program acquisitions. Imposes other Program requirements, including certain required contract terms, development of a life cycle cost estimate, and assignment of a separate contract officers. Requires a report to specified congressional committees identifying the technology risks and level of maturity for major technologies used on each class of asset acquisitions under the Program. Requires a report to specified congressional committees on: (1) each Early Operational Assessment and the plan for addressing each assessment's findings; and (2) how the recommendations of each assessment regarding the first in class of a new cutter class have been addressed before initiation of construction. (Sec. 803) Requires the Coast Guard commandant to appoint or designate a career reserved employee as Chief Acquisition Officer for the Coast Guard to monitor Coast Guard acquisition activities, increase the use of full and open competition, and ensure the use of detailed performance specifications when performance-based contracting is used. Requires the commandant, subject to appropriations, to establish special rate supplements that provide higher pay levels for employees necessary to carry out the amendment made by this paragraph. (Sec. 804) Directs the Secretary to cause each cutter, other than a National Security Cutter, acquired after enactment of this Act to be classed by the American Bureau of Shipping. Requires certain other testing and certification to be done by independent third parties. Requires the Secretary to cause the first in class of a major asset acquisition of a cutter or an aircraft to be subjected to an assessment of operational capability conducted by the Secretary of the Navy. (Sec. 805) Requires specified reports, including concerning : (1) National Security Cutters; (2) the Program, (3) change orders; (4) technology risks and maturity; (5) cost overruns, (6) a plan for management of acquisitions programs, financial management, engineering and logistics management, and contract management; and (7) any Coast Guard mission performance gap due to the removal of Program assets from service. (Sec. 807) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a memorandum of understanding or a memorandum of agreement with the Secretary of the Navy to provide for the use of the Navy Systems Commands to assist the Coast Guard with the oversight of Coast Guard major acquisition programs. Title IX: Minority Serving Institutions - (Sec. 901) Requires the Commandant to establish a two part management internship program for students at minority serving institutions (MSI) to intern at Coast Guard headquarters or a Coast Guard regional office, to be known as the "MSI Management Internship Program," to develop a cadre of civilian, career mid-level and senior managers for the Coast Guard. Defines a MSI as a historically Black college or university, a Hispanic-serving institution, a Tribal College or University, a Predominantly Black institution, or a Native American-serving nontribal institution. Requires that the MSI Internship be managed by the Secretary of Homeland Security. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 902) Requires the Commandant to: (1) establish an MSI component of the College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative, to be known as the "MSI Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative Program," to ensure greater participation by students from MSIs in the Initiative; (2) ensure that MSI Initiative graduates are included in the first enrollment for Officer Candidate School after enactment of this title and each enrollment period thereafter; (3) report to specified congressional committees on the number of students in the College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative and the number of students in the MSI Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative Program, outreach efforts, and enrollee demographic information; and (4) establish an MSI Aviation Officer Corps Initiative to increase the diversity of the Coast Guard Aviation Officer Corps. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 903) Requires the Commandant to establish a Coast Guard Laboratory of Excellence-MSI Cooperative Technology Program at three MSIs to focus on Coast Guard priority security areas such as global maritime surveillance, resilience, and recovery. Authorizes the heads of such laboratories to establish partnerships with the private sector, especially small, disadvantaged businesses. Authorizes appropriations. Title X: Appeals to National Transportation Safety Board - (Sec. 1001) Allows certain individuals whose application for the issuance or renewal of a license or certificate of registry has been denied or whose or merchant mariners' document has been suspended or revoked to appeal that decision to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Prohibits the Coast Guard from conducting any administrative proceeding under specified provisions under any contractual relationship or interagency agreement with the NTSB after October 1, 2009. (Sec. 1002) Requires the NTSB to review on appeal the denial, amendment, modification, suspension, or revocation of a license, certificate, document, or register in a proceeding under specified provisions. (Current law requires the NTSB to review on appeal a decision of the head of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating on an appeal from the decision of an administrative law judge denying, revoking, or suspending a license, certificate, document, or register in a proceeding under specified provisions.) Allows the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to obtain judicial review of an NTSB final order in some circumstances. (Sec. 1003) Transfers to the NTSB, on October 1, 2008, any pending cases remaining undecided by the Coast Guard Office of Administrative Law Judges. Transfers 80% of all funding appropriated for the Coast Guard's Office of Administrative Law Judges to the NTSB and used for the Safety Board Office of Administrative Law Judges. (Sec. 1004) Sets forth rulemaking requirements. (Sec. 1005) Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a program to recruit qualified individuals from appropriate sources in an effort to achieve a workforce drawn from all segments of society in the Coast Guard's Administrative Law Judge program; and (2) report annually to specified congressional committees on the Coast Guard's compliance activities. Title XI: Marine Safety - (Sec. 1101) Requires the Commandant to promote maritime safety by taking actions to protect life, property, and the environment based on the priorities of: (1) preventing marine casualties and threats to the environment; (2) minimizing the impacts of marine casualties and environmental threats; and (3) maximizing lives and property saved and environment protected in the event of a marine casualty. (Sec. 1102) Creates the position of Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety. Requires that the individual in that position be a Rear Admiral or civilian from the Senior Executive Service (career reserved). Creates in each Coast Guard sector a Chief of Marine Safety. Requires that each individual in that position be: (1) at least a Commander or civilian at level GS-14; (2) colocated with the officer in command of that sector; and (3) responsible for all individuals who, on behalf of the Coast Guard, inspect or examine vessels, conduct marine casualty investigations, or perform other marine safety responsibilities. Establishes a limited duty officer program for marine safety. Limits service in that position to commissioned officers with a grade not above commander and chief warrant officers who have more than four years of marine safety experience. Requires an annual report to specified congressional committees on the efforts to recruit individuals to serve as limited duty officers. Authorizes the Commandant to establish and operate a one or more Centers for Expertise for Marine Safety to: (1) provide and facilitate education, training, and research in marine safety including vessel inspection and casualty investigation; and (2) develop a repository of marine safety information. Allows the Commandant to enter into an agreement with an institution of higher education to provide for joint operation of a Center and provide necessary administrative services. Requires the Commandant, by policy, to establish a program under which an officer, member, or employee of the Coast Guard may be assigned to a private entity to further the institutional interests of the Coast Guard regarding marine safety, including to provide training to an officer, member, or employee. Requires an annual report to specified congressional committees. Requires that an inspection certificate be signed by the inspector. (Sec. 1103) Directs the Secretary to develop a long-term strategy for improving vessel safety and the safety of individuals on vessels, including annual issuance of a plan and schedule for: (1) reducing the number and rates of marine casualties; (2) improving the consistency and effectiveness of vessel and operator enforcement and compliance programs; identifying and targeting enforcement efforts at high-risk vessels and operators; and (3) improving research efforts to enhance and promote vessel and operator safety and performance. Requires an annual report to specified congressional committees. (Sec. 1104) Requires the Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety to serve as the principle advisor to the Commandant, including regarding the operation, regulation, and inspection of vessels, the reporting and investigation of marine casualties and accidents, the licensing, certification, documentation, protection and relief of merchant seamen, and suspension and revocation of licenses and certificates. (Sec. 1105) Requires that, except for the Commandant, any individual adjudicating an appeal or granting a marine safety waiver be a qualified specialist with the necessary training, experience and qualifications in marine safety. (Sec. 1106) Requires the Commandant to ensure that professional marine safety courses of study are provided at the Coast Guard Academy, and during other officer accession programs, to give Coast Guard cadets and other officer candidates a background and understanding of the marine safety program. (Sec. 1107) Requires the Commandant to establish procedures that provide geographic stability to interested Coast Guard officers, employees, and members assigned to the marine safety program who have a minimum of 10 years of service in the marine safety program. (Sec. 1108) Requires that any Coast Guard personnel training to become a marine inspector serve a minimum of one-year apprenticeship, unless otherwise directed by the Commandant, under the guidance of a qualified inspector before conducting unsupervised inspections of vessels under specified provisions. Allows the Commandant to authorize shorter apprentice periods for certain qualifications. (Sec. 1109) Requires the Commandant to report to specified congressional committees on efforts to recruit and retain civilian marine inspectors and investigators and the impact of such recruitment and retention efforts on Coast Guard organizational performance. Title XII: Additional Miscellaneous Provisions - (Sec. 1201) Directs the Secretary to prepare a mission requirement analysis for the navigable portions of the Rio Grande River, Texas, international water boundary, including identifying what would be needed to increase search and rescue, migrant interdiction, and drug interdiction operations. (Sec. 1202) Declares that operating or embarking in a submersible or semi-submersible vessel without nationality on an international voyage facilitates transnational crime, including drug trafficking and terrorism. Imposes criminal penalties on anyone who engages in such a voyage, or who attempts or conspires to do so. Provides for extraterritorial federal jurisdiction over the offenses. (Sec. 1203) Declares that the provisions of this division governing the Coast Guard's marine safety mission do not impair the legal authority of the Coast Guard to carry out its homeland security missions. Division B: Alien Smuggling and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2008 - Alien Smuggling and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2008 - (Sec. 103) Directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to check against all available terrorist watchlists those alien smugglers and smuggled individuals who are interdicted at U.S. land, air, and sea borders. (Sec. 104) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise alien (and terrorist) smuggling offense and related penalty provisions. Specifies the following criminal penalties for individuals convicted of smuggling illegal aliens into the United States (applicable to each alien for whom the offense applies): (1) fine and/or up to five years incarceration for smuggling; (2) fine and/or up to one year incarceration for transit of the defendant's spouse, child, sibling, parent, grandparent, or niece or nephew; (3) fine and/or up to 10 years incarceration for recruiting to enter, or harboring or transporting in the United States for profit, commercial advantage, or private financial gain; (4) fine and/or incarceration for 3 to 10 years for a first or second offense of knowingly bringing an illegal alien into the United States for profit, commercial advantage, or private financial gain, or if the offense was committed with the intent or reason to believe that the individual will commit a federal or state offense punishable by more than one year's incarceration, and 5 to 15 years incarceration for any subsequent violation; (5) fine and/or up to 20 years incarceration if the offense results in serious bodily injury or jeopardizes a person's life; (6) fine and/or up to 30 years incarceration if the defendant knew the individual was a terrorist or intended to engage in terrorist activity; and (7) fine and/or any term of years or life if the offense involves kidnaping or attempt to kidnap, the conduct required for aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill. Provides extraterritorial jurisdiction over such offenses. Limits a defense of necessity for knowingly bringing an illegal alien into the United States from the high seas. Exempts from certain of such violations (transporting or harboring in the United States) a bona fide nonprofit, religious organization in the United States (or its agents or officers) that encourages, invites, or enables an alien who is present in the United States to serve as a volunteer minister or missionary for such organization in the United States, provided the minister or missionary has been a member of the denomination for at least one year. (Sec. 105) Amends federal criminal law to specify the following maritime penalties (in addition to the current fine/five-year incarceration): (1) fine and/or up to 10 years incarceration for offenses committed in the course of smuggling, trafficking, shipping, stolen property, drug, and other offenses; (2) fine and/or up to 15 years incarceration for offenses resulting in serious bodily injury or transportation under inhumane conditions; or (3) fine and/or any term of years or life if the offense results in death or involves kidnaping or attempt to kidnap, the conduct required for aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit such abuse, or an attempt to kill. Limits a defense of necessity with respect to such maritime enforcement. Defines "transportation under inhumane conditions" as the transportation of persons in an engine compartment, storage compartment, or other confined space, transportation at an excessive speed, transportation of a number of persons in excess of the rated capacity of the means of transportation, or intentionally grounding a vessel in which persons are being transported. (Sec. 106) Directs the United States Sentencing Commission to review and amend as appropriate sentencing guidelines and policy statements applicable to persons convicted of alien smuggling offenses and criminal failure to heave to or obstruction of boarding.

division coast guard authorization act title authorization sec authorizes appropriations fy2008 coast guard coast guard operation maintenance portion derived oil_spill_liability_trust_fund certain purposes oil pollution act purposes acquisition construction rebuilding improvement aids navigation shore offshore facilities vessels aircraft including related equipment designating fund purposes coast_guard research development test evaluation technologies materials human factors portion purposes retired pay payments retired survivor benefit plans payments medical care retired personnel dependents alteration removal bridges navigable waters constituting navigation obstructions environmental compliance restoration coast_guard facilities coast_guard_reserve program including personnel training costs equipment services sec authorizes coast_guard active duty personnel end year strength average military training student loads sec transfers secretary transportation notwithstanding provision law authorities secretary homeland_security approve construction alteration operation bridge navigable waters require alteration repair removal bridge title coast guard sec authorizes secretary department coast_guard operating secretary appoint civilian employees department coast_guard operating appellate military judges available assignment sec industrial activities accept orders enter reimbursable agreements establishments agencies departments department_of_defense sec requires reimbursement medical related travel expenses certain persons residing islands continental united_states sec revises requirements number distribution commissioned officers active duty promotion list sec removes provisions excluding coast_guard provisions relating homes participation armed_forces_retirement_home system sec authorizes grants cooperative agreements contracts agreements international maritime organizations acquire information merchant vessel inspections security safety classification port state flag state law enforcement oversight sec allows coast_guard member serves active duty support declaration major disaster emergency president robert stafford disaster relief emergency assistance act retain accumulated leave forfeited end fiscal year sec members official duties carry firearm facility arrest warrant offense united_states committed presence provided law seize property sec repeals provision requiring initial appointment director grade captain sec requires coast_guard vice commandant grade admiral serving vice commandant replaces provisions authorizing appointment atlantic pacific area commanders provisions authorizing appointment deputy commandant mission support deputy commandant commander commander grade vice admiral serving positions removes provisions allowing appointment coast_guard chief staff sec establishes merchant mariner medical advisory committee advise secretary medical certification determinations issuance merchant mariner credentials medical standards guidelines physical qualifications operators commercial vessels medical examiner education medical research sec authorizes appointment temporary commissioned officers holders merchant seamen licenses current law licensed officers merchant marine coast_guard_reserve coast_guard_reserve commissioned warrant officers sec modifies requirements selection boards sec directs secretary test report specified congressional committees integrated laser engagement system training coast_guard members assigned small vessels use individual weapons machine guns vessels sec allows firing vessel fails stop ordered firing vessel aircraft government noncommercial service coast_guard tactical control coast_guard member assigned conducting coast_guard mission vessel aircraft permits indemnification coast_guard personnel firing death injury results requires vessels aircraft designated secretary current law coast_guard vessels aircraft distinguished identifying insignia sec requires coast_guard_commandant appoint coast_guard employee ombudsman coast_guard district serve liaison ports terminal operators shipowners labor representatives coast_guard including examining complaints petitioner operating port coast_guard personnel sec directs secretary include coast_guard procurement contract requirement contractor accordance applicable requirements award subcontracts small businesses including socially economically disadvantaged individuals women service disabled veterans hubzone small businesses institutions receiving assistance specified provisions higher education act alaska_native_corporations directs secretary seek facilitate award contracts alliances small businesses institutions corporations requires annual report specified congressional committees sec establishes coast_guard assistant commandant port waterway security requires position rear admiral civilian senior_executive_service career reserved selected secretary sec requires extent secretary determines amounts obligated coast_guard contracts fiscal year expended small business concerns owned controlled socially economically disadvantaged individuals sec authorizes coast_guard enforce provisions shipping law relating coastwise trade including vessels support exploration development production oil gas mineral resources gulf_of_mexico requires report specified congressional committees sec revises requirements nomination appointment coast_guard cadets including establishing competitive system appointments allows noncompetitive appointments appointments individuals countries establishes minority recruiting program prospective cadets coast_guard_academy sec requires coast_guard_academy superintendent prescribe policy sexual harassment sexual violence applicable cadets personnel academy requires annual report years specified congressional committees sec allows coast_guard vessel home port guam repaired maintained shipyard guam title iii shipping allows notwithstanding limitation specified provisions contrary rebuilding replacement vessel documented specified provisions fishery endorsement order improve vessel safety operational efficiencies including fuel efficiency amends american fisheries act authorize recommend conservation management measures approval secretary commerce ensure requirement section diminish effectiveness fishery management plans bering_sea aleutian_islands_management_area gulf_of_alaska sets forth special rules including rules pertaining vessel size limits certain catcher vessels fishery endorsement limitations replacement vessels gulf_of_alaska sec amends authorize levy nonfederal sales taxes goods services provided vessels watercraft vessels watercraft primarily engaged foreign commerce operate navigable waters sec amends increase civil penalty owner vessel violates regulations establishing anchorage grounds safe navigation waters extend coast_guard authority establish anchorage grounds vessels nautical miles nautical miles sec subjects person knowingly intentionally possesses controlled substance vessel subject jurisdiction united_states civil penalty sec revises provisions measurement vessels including changing definition vessel engaged foreign voyage modifying international tonnage certificate provisions sec requires report specified congressional committees efficacy coast guard cold weather survival training years plans training fy2008 fy2011 authorizes appropriations carry training district sec amends provisions uninspected commercial fishing industry vessels revise safety requirements establishes fishing safety training grants program provide funding conduct commercial fishing vessel safety training purchase safety equipment training aids use training programs authorizes appropriations establishes fishing safety research grant program provide funding conduct research methods improving safety commercial fishing industry including vessel design emergency survival equipment enhancement vessel monitoring systems communications devices technology severe weather detection applies existing provisions load lines vessels fishing vessels built having major conversion completed january modifies vessels certain survey classification requirements apply specified dates apply directs secretary department coast_guard operating secretary prescribe safety compliance program developed cooperation commercial fishing industry alternative survey classification requirements requires certain fishing fish processing fish tender vessels comply alternative safety program sec modifies record keeping requirements issuances denials suspensions revocations licenses certificates registry merchant mariners documents related endorsements sec removes provisions exempting certain vessels engaged offshore mineral oil industry specified towing vessel manning requirements sec authorizes secretary establish liability limit deepwater port connection natural gas transportation sec amends oil pollution act require claim presented recovery removal costs incident current law years date completion removal actions incident sec requires vessels voyage united_states canada subject inspection provisions relating inspection regulation vessels official logbook specified entries sec allows individual authorized enforce federal shipping law remove vessel certificate order individual charge vessel return vessel mooring direct individual steps necessary safety individuals board sec prohibits approval survival craft craft ensures individual water prohibits allowing survival craft meet requirement remain service january sec applies provisions relating management vessels passenger small passenger vessel transporting passengers number prescribed secretary based number individuals vessel killed injured marine casualty sec prohibits discrimination seaman reasons seaman testified maritime safety law enforcement proceeding cooperated safety investigation sec amends coast_guard maritime transportation act extend september promulgation related regulations whichever earlier authority secretary regulate incidental discharges dry bulk cargo great_lakes waters current law authorizes secretary regulate discharges september promulgation related regulations whichever earlier sec requires new vessel building contract date enactment act delivered august aggregate capacity cubic meters oil fuel comply specified regulation requiring double sec prohibits vessel lacks registry endorsement foreign trade trade guam american_samoa wake midway engaging navigable waters vessel transported gas foreign port prohibits construing prohibition applying structure navigable waters coast_guard regulates waterfront facility handling liquefied natural gas specified provisions having effect jurisdiction federal_energy_regulatory_commission ferc specified provisions natural gas act sec repeals provisions requiring applicant license certificate registry oath designated official applicant perform according best skill judgment applicant duties required law repeals provisions requiring applicant merchant mariner document oath applicant perform duties required law carry lawful orders superior officers sec allows advance renewals merchant mariners documents merchant seamen licenses certificates registry sec prohibits secretary individual fingerprinted individual applied transportation security card specified provisions requiring fingerprinting individual issuance renewal license certificate registry merchant mariner document sec allows secretary extend year license certificate registry merchant mariner document enable coast_guard eliminate processing backlog sec directs secretary develop interim clearance process issuance merchant mariner document enable newly hired seaman begin working offshore supply vessel towing vessel secretary makes initial determination seaman pose safety security risk sec requires commandant report specified congressional committees expanding streamlined evaluation process program previously affiliated coast_guard processing centers including proposals simplify application process help eliminate errors completing application form sec directs secretary transportation administrator maritime_administration report specified congressional committees methods address current future shortage number merchant mariners including educational loan program providing loans cost job training provide incentive workers help alleviate shortage sec directs secretary department coast_guard operating secretary submit specified congressional committees plan ensure process application individual applied transportation security card specified provisions merchant mariner document completed entirely mail report redesign merchant mariner document sec directs secretary homeland_security report specified congressional committees loss shipyard jobs industrial base expertise result performance foreign shipyards rebuilding conversion double hull work vessels eligible engage coastwise trade enforcement coast_guard foreign rebuild determination regulations recommendations improving transparency coast_guard foreign rebuild determination process sec directs secretary department coast_guard operating secretary designate regulation areas approaches waters bay massachusetts certain vessels required direction control pilot sets forth pilot licensing requirements applicable area bay massachusetts single hull tanker tank vessel carrying barrels oil hazardous material required pilot direction control sec amends provisions relating vessels seamen remove tonnage criteria definition offshore supply vessel amends oceans act add tonnage criteria provisions deeming offshore supply vessel tank vessel adds tonnage criteria provisions regulating offshore supply vessel watches specifies numbers licensed licensed engineers required offshore supply vessels sec directs secretary report specified congressional committees recreational vessel operator training including coast_guard_auxiliary power training programs existing state programs sec requires commandant report specified congressional committees exhaust emissions reduction technology cargo passenger ships waters ports federal state local requirements affect ability demonstrate onboard technology reduction contaminated emissions ships sec authorizes secretary delegate american_bureau_of_shipping classification society authority review approve plans required issuing certificate inspection certificate compliance conduct inspections examinations imposes certain requirements delegation foreign classification society sec amends ports waterways safety act require pilot certain vessels obtain training carry use portable electronic navigation device capable connected title miscellaneous provisions sec modifies specifications related issuance certificate documentation coastwise endorsement vessel sec authorizes secretary notwithstanding specified provisions issue certificate documentation coastwise endorsement ocean sec requires great_lakes region secretary conduct maritime transportation studies great_lakes region increases specific studies included authorizes appropriations sec directs secretary convey massachusetts station point boat house located massachusetts use public purpose enter lease authorizing occupy land buildings located sec caps total delayed payment wages times unpaid wages subject claim class action suit seamen passenger vessel capable carrying passengers foreign coastwise voyages payment wages specified deadlines sufficient cause regulates aspects seamen wages vessels sec modifies provisions relating vessel manning requirements fish tender vessels trade sec requires commandant decommissioning coast_guard_cutter_storis convey vessel llc state alaska provided certain conditions met sec removes provisions relating licenses salvage coast florida sec grants town florida notwithstanding law right refusal exchange specified real property jurisdiction town including improvements real property equal greater value specified uses sec authorizes commandant notwithstanding law convey state north_carolina falcon jet aircraft administrative jurisdiction coast_guard commandant makes specified determinations sec requires commandant notwithstanding law scheduled decommissioning coast_guard foot patrol boat government haiti right refusal conveyance vessel subject conditions including haiti use boat vessel available government needed time war national emergency sec allows end currently end chartering foreign flag vessel set relocate recover mooring equipment mobile offshore drilling unit located outer_continental_shelf secretary transportation makes certain determinations sec requires commandant appropriate specified provisions federal_water_pollution_control_act prepare vessel traffic risk assessment alaska alaska years date enactment act sec authorizes secretary department coast_guard operating secretary issue certificate documentation coastwise endorsement vessel maryland independence certain conditions met sec requires commandant study area commonly identified coast_guard located buffalo new_york report specified congressional committees cost effective method providing shore facilities feasibility consolidating relocating shore facilities portion existing site meeting expanding operational requirements requires report contain preliminary plan design engineering construction proposed project sec authorizes commandant notwithstanding convey sheriff departments mississippi coast_guard boats equipment parts coast_guard vessels commandant determines excess needs coast_guard department_of_homeland_security sec authorizes secretary homeland_security station additional coast_guard assets united_states_virgin_islands port security associated purposes authorizes appropriations sec authorizes commandant coast guard transfer presque_isle_township michigan possession historic lens presque_isle_light_station_lighthouse additional personal property related lens commandant considers appropriate conveyance requires township condition transfer possession install lens lighthouse class private aid navigation instructs commandant certification commandant township installed lens able operate lens lighthouse private aid navigation convey township interest united_states lens allows commandant commandant conveys lens township convey township personal property previously transferred township act sec declares fishery endorsement required purse seine tuna fishing vessel home american_samoa fishing exclusively highly migratory species license issued pursuant specified treaty certain pacific island states united_states treaty area portion exclusive economic zone eez bordering treaty area sec directs secretary department coast_guard operating secretary report specified congressional committees need additional coast_guard prevention response capability high latitude regions including search rescue marine pollution response prevention fisheries enforcement maritime commerce sec directs secretary study national_academy_of_sciences nas need regional response vessel salvage capability state washington coast sec directs secretary report specified congressional committees projected workload calendar years bay maryland total time equivalents supported account popularly known year meet workload sec directs secretary transportation report specified congressional committees proposed construction alteration bridge navigable waters channel depth feet greater impede obstruct future navigation port facilities sec prohibits employer seaman withholding state local taxes voluntary agreement seaman performs regularly assigned duties engaged master officer crewman vessel operating navigable waters states currently navigable waters state sec requires commandant notwithstanding law government haiti exercised options act scheduled decommissioning coast_guard foot patrol boat government bermuda right refusal conveyance vessel subject conditions including bermuda use boat vessel available government needed time war national emergency sec amends modify definition employee applicable individuals employed manufacture recreational vessel feet length employed repair recreational vessel dismantle recreational vessel connection repair vessel sec authorizes commandant notwithstanding convey new_york coast_guard foot patrol boats sec requires administrator environmental_protection_agency epa report specified congressional committees public health safety environmental concerns related underground petroleum spill brooklyn shoreline new_york_city new_york brooklyn new_york authorizes appropriations sec authorizes commandant convey real property commonly identified city michigan title ballast water treatment ballast water treatment act sec amends nonindigenous_aquatic_nuisance_prevention control act replace provisions relating preventing introduction spread aquatic nuisance species great lakes exchange ballast water provisions relating introduction spread species ballast water ship borne new provisions focused great lakes excludes provisions vessel carries permanent ballast water sealed tanks subject discharge vessel continuously takes discharges ballast water flow system excludes vessels armed_forces requires secretary department coast_guard operating secretary secretary defense implement ballast water management program armed_forces vessels consistent requirements including deadlines stringent requirements issued vessels specified provisions federal_water_pollution_control_act prohibits uptake discharge ballast water sediment waters subject jurisdiction united_states specified provisions subject exceptions requires vessel operators conduct ballast water management operations accordance approved ballast water management plan meets requirements prescribed regulation requires maintenance ballast water record book prohibits discharge ballast water waters subject jurisdiction conducting ballast water exchange treatment technology meeting certain requirements environmentally sound alternative ballast water treatment technology allows exceptions including safety stability allows waiver substantial business hardship sets forth exchange treatment requirements sets treatment system implementation deadlines authorizes appropriations promulgation implementation standards requires notice vessel owners operators area waters subject jurisdiction vessels uptake ballast water known conditions prohibits removal disposition sediment spaces designed carry ballast water accordance specified requirements including removal disposition nautical miles land reception facility meeting certain requirements authorizes secretary department coast_guard operating secretary inspect vessels allows states administer inspection enforcement programs requires annual report results inspection enforcement activities authorizes secretary detain vessels provides civil penalties including rem liability criminal penalties revocation clearance declares provisions title relating ballast water exchange requirements treatment requirements supersede inconsistent state local law requires report specified congressional committees vessel borne aquatic nuisance species pathogens ballast water sediment including vessel equipment vessels equipped ballast tanks carry ballast water sec directs secretary conduct specified surveys number living organisms ballast water report specified congressional committees sec replaces provisions ballast water management demonstration program provisions directing secretary establish evaluate ballast water treatment technologies aboard vessels directs secretary commerce oceans atmosphere conduct program demonstrate ballast water treatment technologies evaluated aboard vessels establish grant program provide funding acquiring installing operating ballast water treatment technologies aboard vessels participating program conduct program demonstrate verify technologies practices monitor control introduction aquatic invasive species ship pathways release ballast water sec directs president prepare publish national rapid response plan killing removing minimizing spread aquatic nuisance species waters united_states sec authorizes appropriations carry specified provisions title carry provisions existing law relating national ballast information clearinghouse title maritime pollution prevention maritime pollution prevention act sec amends act prevent pollution ships act provide adoption prevention air pollution ships enforcement international convention prevention pollution ships includes protocols annexes entered force united_states makes act respect applicable ships port shipyard offshore terminal internal waters ship bound departing port shipyard offshore terminal internal waters united_states navigable waters emission control specified area ship entitled fly flag operating authority party navigable waters emission control specified area extent consistent international law ship exclusive economic zone emission control specified area authorizes require respect federal agency heads determine act requirements apply vessel air emissions public vessels operated agency authority sec permits administrator administrator environmental_protection_agency epa person issue certificates accordance nitrogen oxides behalf united_states documented vessel sec gives certificate issued country party protocol protocol includes convention validity certificate issued secretary department coast_guard secretary operating currently administrator sec requires secretary administrator consulting appropriate federal agencies jointly prescribe regulations setting criteria determining adequacy reception facilities receiving ozone depleting substances equipment containing substances exhaust gas cleaning residues port terminal stating additional measures requirements appropriate ensure adequacy revises provisions concerning denial entry ship required convention antarctic protocol retain onboard sea residues mixtures containing oil noxious liquid substances permit denial entry ship port terminal required protocol act prescribed regulations relating provision adequate reception facilities garbage ozone depleting substances equipment containing substances exhaust gas cleaning residues port terminal compliance protocol act regulations sec authorizes secretary inspect ship act applies verify ship compliance convention act permits secretary administrator undertake enforcement actions inspection information indicates violation sec authorizes secretary state consulting secretary currently administrator act united_states protocol related amendments sec permits administrator currently secretary assess civil penalties title vii sec directs secretary homeland_security establish program help prevent acts terrorism activities jeopardize maritime homeland security seeking cooperation commercial recreational boating industries public improve awareness activity maritime domain report suspicious unusual activity sec requires secretary homeland_security report specified congressional committees comptroller_general implementation program twic requires assessment report comptroller_general requires secretary homeland_security report specified congressional committees comptroller general completion pilot program required existing law test business processes technology operational impacts required deploy transportation security card readers secure areas marine transportation system requires assessment report comptroller_general sec requires comptroller general report specified congressional committees comparing background records checks required provisions relating transportation security cards conducted states similar homeland security purposes sec requires inspector general department_of_homeland_security report specified congressional committees establishment required specified provisions safe port act sec requires secretary department coast_guard operating secretary establish maritime security response teams act coast_guard rapidly deployable counterterrorism law enforcement response units apply advanced interdiction skills response threats maritime terrorism sec requires secretary homeland_security begin increase number detection canine teams certified coast_guard maritime related security canine teams annually fiscal year encourage owners operators port facilities passenger cruise cargo vessels vessels strengthen security use highly trained detection canine teams authorizes appropriations sec authorizes secretary department coast_guard operating secretary lend lease donate provide equipment provide technical training support owner operator foreign port facility assist bringing port facility exceeding compliance applicable international ship port facility code standards port facility meeting exceeding specified standards sec directs secretary homeland_security commandant conduct maritime environment program mobile biometric identification fingerprint digital photography images suspected individuals including terrorists enhance border security purposes requires report specified congressional committees cost expanding coast_guard biometric identification capabilities use coast_guard cutters stations deployable maritime teams appropriate department_of_homeland_security maritime vessels units sec directs secretary homeland_security report specified congressional committees threat vulnerability consequence terrorist attack gasoline chemical cargo shipments port activity areas united_states sec directs secretary homeland_security establish pilot program test deploy preventive radiological nuclear detection equipment coast_guard vessels locations requires pilot program leverage existing federal grant funding sec requires owner operator cruise ship passengers united_states port notify secretary homeland_security covered security incident occurs cruise ship course voyage person involved conjunction advance notice arrival united_states port required certain provisions defines covered security incident mean criminal act omission results death bodily injury sexual assaults missing persons poses significant threat cruise ship cruise ship passenger port facility person near port requires maintenance site numerical accounting missing persons alleged crimes requires updating quarterly aggregated cruise line cruise line identified requires cruise line include internet site link available public coast_guard internet site sec modifies requirements port security antiterrorism efforts ports facilities foreign countries territories sec requires comptroller general report specified congressional committees effects twic companies employ seasonal employees sec requires independent assessment report specified congressional committees comparing safety security risk associated vessel based facility based liquefied natural gas processes conducted miles land versus processes conducted miles land requires report specified congressional committees sec directs secretary homeland_security establish procedures providing individual required fingerprinted purposes obtaining transportation security card specified provisions fingerprinted facility operated contract agency department_of_homeland_security fingerprints public terminates directive december sec requires issuance biometric transportation security card individual issued license certificate registry merchant mariners document individual engaged towing vessel alongside tank vessel individuals allowed unescorted access secure area designated vessel security plan individual poses security risk current law requires issuance makes reference unescorted access secure area sec requires comptroller general report specified congressional committees methods conduct background security investigation individual possesses biometric identification card complies number equivalent investigation conducted individuals applying visa sec specifies composition extends termination date september repeals provisions requiring committee submit congress committee recommendation committee continued termination date sec requires facility security plan approved specified provisions provide system seamen assigned vessel facility pilots representatives seamen welfare labor organizations board depart vessel facility timely manner cost individual sec requires coast_guard consistent provisions law enforce security zone established coast_guard tanker containing liquefied natural gas prohibits security arrangement approved facility security plan enactment act liquefied natural gas terminal assist enforcement security zone established coast_guard tanker containing liquefied natural gas based provision security state local government state local government entered arrangement terminal operator provide services secretary department coast_guard operating secretary ensures waterborne patrols operated security arrangement state local government training resources personnel equipment experience necessary deter maximum extent practicable transportation security incident prohibits secretary approving facility security plan new liquefied natural gas terminal construction begun enactment act coast_guard available sector terminal located resources including state local government resources needs carry navigation maritime security risk management measures identified waterway suitability report prepared pursuant ports waterways safety act sec directs secretary homeland_security consistent provisions law notify federal_energy_regulatory_commission ferc waterway proposed liquefied natural gas facility suitable associated marine traffic requires ferc reply informing secretary homeland_security ferc action natural gas act proposed facility sec authorizes secretary homeland_security use secondary authentication system individuals applying transportation security cards fingerprints able taken read enhance transportation security sec directs secretary department coast_guard operating secretary report specified congressional committees extent state local law enforcement entities augmenting coast_guard resources enforcing coast_guard imposed security zones vessels transiting united_states ports conducting port security patrols sec directs secretary homeland_security prepare assessment enrollment sites transportation security cards including feasibility keeping enrollment sites open hours day days week feasibility keeping enrollment sites open september customer service quality develop timelines benchmarks implementing assessment findings title viii reform act sec prohibits secretary department coast_guard operating private sector entity lead systems integrator future integrated deepwater systems program program procurements allows completion existing delivery task orders allows secretary obtain assistance federal agencies grant contract cooperative agreement private sector entities directs secretary subject exception use open competition certain acquisitions imposes program requirements including certain required contract terms development life cycle cost estimate assignment separate contract officers requires report specified congressional committees identifying technology risks level maturity major technologies class asset acquisitions program requires report specified congressional committees early operational assessment plan addressing assessment findings recommendations assessment class new cutter class addressed initiation construction sec requires coast_guard commandant appoint designate career reserved employee chief acquisition officer coast_guard monitor coast_guard acquisition activities increase use open competition ensure use detailed performance specifications performance based contracting requires commandant subject appropriations establish special rate supplements provide higher pay levels employees necessary carry amendment paragraph sec directs secretary cause cutter national_security_cutter acquired enactment act classed american_bureau_of_shipping requires certain testing certification independent parties requires secretary cause class major asset acquisition cutter aircraft subjected assessment operational capability conducted secretary navy sec requires specified reports including concerning program change orders technology risks maturity cost overruns plan management acquisitions programs financial management engineering logistics management contract management coast_guard mission performance gap removal program assets service sec authorizes secretary enter memorandum understanding memorandum agreement secretary navy provide use navy systems commands assist coast_guard oversight coast_guard major acquisition programs title minority serving institutions sec requires commandant establish management internship program students minority serving institutions intern coast_guard headquarters coast_guard regional office known develop cadre civilian career mid level senior managers coast_guard defines historically black college university hispanic serving institution tribal_college university institution native american serving nontribal institution requires internship managed secretary homeland_security authorizes appropriations sec requires commandant establish component known student pre commissioning initiative program ensure greater participation students msis initiative ensure initiative graduates included enrollment enactment title enrollment period report specified congressional committees number students college student pre commissioning initiative number students student pre commissioning initiative program outreach efforts enrollee demographic information establish aviation officer corps initiative increase diversity authorizes appropriations sec requires commandant establish msis focus coast_guard priority security areas global maritime surveillance resilience recovery authorizes heads laboratories establish partnerships private sector especially small disadvantaged businesses authorizes appropriations title appeals national_transportation_safety_board sec allows certain individuals application issuance renewal license certificate registry denied merchant mariners document suspended revoked appeal decision national_transportation_safety_board ntsb prohibits coast_guard conducting administrative proceeding specified provisions contractual relationship interagency agreement ntsb october sec requires ntsb review appeal denial amendment modification suspension revocation license certificate document register proceeding specified provisions current law requires ntsb review appeal decision head department coast_guard operating appeal decision administrative law judge denying revoking suspending license certificate document register proceeding specified provisions allows secretary department coast_guard operating secretary obtain judicial review ntsb final order circumstances sec transfers ntsb october pending cases remaining transfers funding appropriated ntsb sec sets forth rulemaking requirements sec directs secretary establish program recruit qualified individuals appropriate sources effort achieve workforce drawn segments society coast_guard administrative law judge program report annually specified congressional committees coast_guard compliance activities title marine safety sec requires commandant promote maritime safety taking actions protect life property environment based priorities preventing marine casualties threats environment minimizing impacts marine casualties environmental threats maximizing lives property saved environment protected event marine casualty sec creates position assistant commandant marine safety requires individual position rear admiral civilian senior_executive_service career reserved creates coast_guard sector chief marine safety requires individual position commander civilian level officer command sector responsible individuals behalf coast_guard inspect examine vessels conduct marine casualty investigations perform marine safety responsibilities establishes limited duty officer program marine safety limits service position commissioned officers grade commander chief warrant officers years marine safety experience requires annual report specified congressional committees efforts recruit individuals serve limited duty officers authorizes commandant establish operate provide facilitate education training research marine safety including vessel inspection casualty investigation develop repository marine safety information allows commandant enter agreement institution higher education provide joint operation center provide necessary administrative services requires commandant policy establish program officer member employee coast_guard assigned private entity institutional interests coast_guard marine safety including provide training officer member employee requires annual report specified congressional committees requires inspection certificate signed inspector sec directs secretary develop long term strategy improving vessel safety safety individuals vessels including annual issuance plan schedule reducing number rates marine casualties improving consistency effectiveness vessel operator enforcement compliance programs identifying targeting enforcement efforts high risk vessels operators improving research efforts enhance promote vessel operator safety performance requires annual report specified congressional committees sec requires assistant commandant marine safety serve principle advisor commandant including operation regulation inspection vessels reporting investigation marine casualties accidents licensing certification documentation protection relief merchant seamen suspension revocation licenses certificates sec requires commandant individual adjudicating appeal granting marine safety waiver qualified specialist necessary training experience qualifications marine safety sec requires commandant ensure professional marine safety courses study provided coast_guard_academy officer accession programs coast_guard cadets officer candidates background understanding marine safety program sec requires commandant establish procedures provide geographic stability interested coast_guard officers employees members assigned marine safety program minimum years service marine safety program sec requires coast_guard personnel training marine inspector serve minimum year apprenticeship directed commandant guidance qualified inspector conducting unsupervised inspections vessels specified provisions allows commandant authorize shorter periods certain qualifications sec requires commandant report specified congressional committees efforts recruit retain civilian marine inspectors investigators impact recruitment retention efforts coast_guard organizational performance title xii additional miscellaneous provisions sec directs secretary prepare mission requirement analysis navigable portions texas international water boundary including identifying needed increase search rescue migrant interdiction drug interdiction operations sec declares operating embarking submersible semi submersible vessel nationality international voyage facilitates transnational crime including drug trafficking terrorism imposes criminal penalties engages voyage attempts conspires provides extraterritorial federal jurisdiction offenses sec declares provisions division governing coast_guard marine safety mission impair legal authority coast_guard carry homeland security missions division alien smuggling terrorism prevention act alien smuggling terrorism prevention act sec directs department_of_homeland_security dhs check available terrorist watchlists alien smugglers smuggled individuals interdicted land air sea borders sec amends immigration nationality act revise alien terrorist smuggling offense related penalty provisions specifies following criminal penalties individuals convicted smuggling illegal aliens united_states applicable alien offense applies fine years incarceration smuggling fine year incarceration transit defendant spouse child sibling parent grandparent fine years incarceration recruiting enter harboring transporting united_states profit commercial advantage private financial gain fine incarceration years second offense knowingly bringing illegal alien united_states profit commercial advantage private financial gain offense committed intent reason believe individual commit federal state offense punishable year incarceration years incarceration subsequent violation fine years incarceration offense results bodily injury jeopardizes person life fine years incarceration defendant knew individual terrorist intended engage terrorist activity fine term years life offense involves attempt kidnap conduct required aggravated sexual abuse attempt kill provides extraterritorial jurisdiction offenses limits defense necessity knowingly bringing illegal alien united_states high seas exempts certain violations transporting harboring united_states bona fide nonprofit religious organization united_states agents officers encourages enables alien present united_states serve volunteer minister missionary organization united_states provided minister missionary member denomination year sec amends federal criminal law specify following maritime penalties addition current fine year incarceration fine years incarceration offenses committed course smuggling trafficking shipping stolen property drug offenses fine years incarceration offenses resulting bodily injury transportation inhumane conditions fine term years life offense results death involves attempt kidnap conduct required aggravated sexual abuse attempt commit abuse attempt kill limits defense necessity respect maritime enforcement defines transportation inhumane conditions transportation persons engine compartment storage compartment confined space transportation excessive speed transportation number persons excess rated capacity means transportation intentionally grounding vessel persons transported sec directs united_states_sentencing_commission review amend appropriate sentencing guidelines policy statements applicable persons convicted alien smuggling offenses criminal failure obstruction boarding