Summary: Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010- Title I: Authorization - (Sec. 101) Authorizes FY2011 appropriations for the Coast Guard, including for: (1) operation and maintenance; (2) acquisition, construction, rebuilding, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities, vessels, and aircraft; (3) research, development, test, and evaluation of technologies, materials, and human factors relating to the Coast Guard's mission in search and rescue, aids to navigation, marine safety, marine environmental protection, enforcement of laws and treaties, ice operations, oceanographic research, and defense readiness; (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 obstructions to navigation, and for personnel and administrative costs associated with the Bridge Alteration Program; (6) environmental compliance and restoration at Coast Guard facilities; and (7) the Coast Guard Reserve program. (Sec. 102) Authorizes Coast Guard active duty personnel end-of-year strength for FY2011. Authorizes Coast Guard average military training student loads for FY2011 for: (1) recruit and special training; (2) flight training; (3) professional training in military and civilian institutions; and (4) officer acquisition. Title II: Coast Guard - (Sec. 201) Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (the 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) Authorizes Coast Guard industrial activities to accept orders and enter into agreements with establishments, agencies, and departments of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). (Sec. 203) Requires reimbursement for reasonable medical travel expenses of a covered beneficiary (other than active duty members or certain reserve members), including with regard to the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service, who resides on an island that is located in the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia and that lacks public access roads to the mainland and is referred to a specialty care provider on the mainland, regardless of the distance of travel involved. (Sec. 204) States that the total number of Coast Guard commissioned officers on the active duty promotion list, excluding warrant officers, shall not exceed 7,200, except that the Commandant may temporarily increase the number following the commissioning of a Coast Guard Academy class. Sets forth officer grade distribution provisions. (Sec. 205) Amends the Armed Forces Retirement Home Act of 1991 to include the Coast Guard in the Armed Forces retirement home system. (Sec. 206) Authorizes the Commandant of the Coast Guard to make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with, international maritime organizations for acquiring information about merchant vessel inspections, security, safety and environmental protection, classification, and port state or flag state law enforcement or oversight. (Sec. 207) Requires a duty assignment for an active duty member of the Coast Guard 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 or in response to a spill of national significance to be treated as a duty assignment in support of a contingency operation for the purpose of permitting such member to retain up to 120 days of 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) to make an arrest without a warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence; and (2) as otherwise provided by law, to 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) Establishes the Merchant Mariner Medical Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary regarding: (1) medical certification determinations for issuance of licenses, certificates of registry, and merchant mariners' documents; (2) medical standards and guidelines for the physical qualifications of operators of commercial vessels; (3) medical examiner education; and (4) medical research. (Sec. 211) Authorizes the appointment of temporary commissioned officers in: (1) the Regular Coast Guard from among holders of merchant seamen licenses (current law authorizes this to be 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. 212) Modifies selection board requirements. (Sec. 213) 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. (Current law indemnifies Coast Guard personnel from any penalties or actions for damages for that firing.) Requires that vessels and aircraft designated by the Secretary be distinguished by an identifying insignia. (Current law requires that Coast Guard vessels and aircraft be so distinguished.) (Sec. 214) Requires the Coast Guard Commandant to appoint in each Coast Guard district a District Ombudsman to serve as a liaison between the Coast Guard and ports, terminal operators, shipowners, and labor representatives, including examining complaints by a petitioner operating in a port or by Coast Guard personnel. (Sec. 215) Raises from 62 to 64 the mandatory retirement age for flag officers serving in a grade of rear admiral (lower half) or above. Allows deferral of the mandatory retirement age of any regular commissioned officer serving in a flag officer grade position: (1) by the Secretary until age 66; and (2) by the President until age 68. (Current law allows deferral for flag officers until age 62.) (Sec. 216) Authorizes the Coast Guard to enforce provisions of shipping law relating to the coastwise trade. Requires a program to be established for officers and members enforcing such laws and a related report. (Sec. 217) Requires the Commandant to report annually on sexual assaults involving members of the Coast Guard. (Sec. 218) Prohibits a Coast Guard vessel with its home port in a state of the United States or Guam from being overhauled, repaired, or maintained in a shipyard outside the United States or Guam, other than in the case of voyage repairs. (Current law makes no reference to Guam.) (Sec. 219) Directs the Secretary to: (1) conclude the study of whether a single, domestic system is needed as a back-up navigation system to the Global Positioning System; and (2) notify Congress of such determination. (Sec. 220) Authorizes the Commandant to use funds for certain assistance to foreign governments or maritime authorities, subject to approval by the Secretary of State. (Sec. 221) Revises Coast Guard housing laws regarding the construction of military family housing and military unaccompanied housing. Repeals housing acquisition and construction provisions related to the authorization of direct loans and private sector loan guarantees, leasing contracts, and limited partnerships with eligible entities. Disallows the leasing of certain property or facilities to private persons. Requires any conveyance of real property to be by sale, for cash, and at fair market value. Repeals certain authority related to the assignment of armed forces' members to specified housing units. Eliminates demonstration projects and certain contracts with small business concerns qualified under the Small Business Act. (Sec. 222) Authorizes the Commandant to: (1) use appropriated funds to provide child development services; and (2) collect and expend, for such services, fees based on family income. (Sec. 223) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to: (1) detail Chaplain Corps personnel to the Coast Guard; and (2) provide support services (including transportation, food, lodging, child care, supplies, fees, and training materials) to chaplain-led programs to assist members of the Coast Guard on active duty and their dependents, and members of the reserve component in an active status and their dependents, in building and maintaining a strong family structure. (Sec. 224) Authorizes the President to award a Coast Guard cross and silver star medals to persons serving in any capacity with the Coast Guard for extraordinary heroism or gallantry in action while engaged in action against a U.S. enemy, or in other specified actions. Title III: Shipping and Navigation - (Sec. 301) 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 3 nautical miles to 12 nautical miles. (Sec. 302) Subjects to a civil penalty any person who knowingly or intentionally possesses a controlled substance on a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. (Sec. 303) 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. 304) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress: (1) a plan, including estimated costs, 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. 305) Requires the Commandant, in conjunction with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to report on new and existing technology for reducing air emissions from cargo or passenger ships in U.S. waters and ports and impediments to demonstrating that technology. (Sec. 306) Allows foreign-flag vessels, notwithstanding specified provisions and if insufficient vessels documented under U.S. law are reasonably available and suitable, to be chartered for a limited time for the setting, relocation, or recovery of anchors or other mooring equipment of a mobile offshore drilling unit over the Outer Continental Shelf for operations in support of exploration, or flow-testing and stimulation of wells, for offshore mineral or energy resources in the Beaufort Sea or the Chukchi Sea adjacent to Alaska. (Sec. 307) Encourages the Secretary to work through the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to establish agreements to promote coordinated action among the United States, Russia, Canada, Iceland, Norway, and Denmark and other seafaring and Arctic nations to ensure, in the Arctic: (1) placement and maintenance of aids to navigation; (2) appropriate icebreaking escort, tug, and salvage capabilities; (3) oil spill prevention and response capability; (4) maritime domain awareness, including long-range vessel tracking; and (5) search and rescue. Directs the Secretary to require a nongovernmental, independent third party to conduct a comparative cost-benefit analysis of: (1) rebuilding, renovating, or improving the existing fleet of Coast Guard polar icebreakers; (2) constructing new Coast Guard polar icebreakers; (3) constructing of and renovating such icebreakers by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for NSF operation; and (4) any combination of those activities. Directs the Secretary to require such a nongovernmental, independent third party to conduct an analysis of the impact on all Coast Guard activities (assuming Coast Guard funding will not increase more than the annual rate of inflation) of the acquisition of such icebreakers by the Coast Guard or the NSF. Requires a related report, with Commandant recommendations. Requires the Commandant to report to Congress on the High-Latitude Study (assessment of polar icebreaking mission requirements). Title IV: Acquisition Reform - (Sec. 401) Establishes in the Coast Guard a Chief Acquisition Officer. (Sec. 402) Establishes an acquisition directorate to provide guidance and oversight for the implementation and management of all Coast Guard acquisition processes, programs, and projects. Prohibits assigning an individual as the program manager for: (1) a Level 1 acquisition unless the individual holds a Level III acquisition certification as a program manager; or (2) a Level 2 acquisition unless the individual holds a Level II acquisition certification as a program manager. Requires the Commandant to: (1) issue guidance on the qualifications, resources, responsibilities, tenure, and accountability of acquisition program managers; (2) develop a strategy for enhancing the role of Coast Guard project or program managers in developing and carrying out acquisition programs; (3) establish a management information system capability to improve acquisition workforce management and reporting; and (4) establish acquisition management as a core competency for certain Coast Guard career paths. Requires the Commandant to: (1) designate a sufficient number of positions to be in the Coast Guard's acquisition workforce to perform acquisition-related functions; and (2) report annually to Congress on the scope of acquisition activities to be performed in the next fiscal year. Prohibits the Commandant from using a private sector entity as a lead systems integrator for acquisition contracts, delivery orders, or task orders issued after enactment of this Act. Excludes from such prohibition completion of the National Distress and Response System Modernization Program, certain projects related to the Integrated Deepwater program, and National Security Cutters 2 and 3. Prohibits, subject to exceptions, an entity performing lead system integrator functions for a Coast Guard acquisition or a Tier 1 subcontractor for any acquisition from having a financial interest in a subcontractor below the Tier 1 subcontractor level. Terminates the exception, subject to exceptions, after the earlier of: (1) September 30, 2011; or (2) when the Commandant certifies to Congress that the Coast Guard has available and can retain sufficient acquisition workforce personnel and expertise in the public or private sector to perform the functions and responsibilities of the lead systems integrator in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Sets forth required contract terms and prohibited provisions for certain capability or asset acquisitions. Requires integrated product teams, and all teams that oversee integrated product teams, to be chaired by officers, members, or employees of the Coast Guard. Requires the Commandant to make arrangements, as appropriate, with the Secretary of Defense for support in contracting and management of Coast Guard acquisition programs. Directs the Comptroller General to transmit a report to Congress on management recommendations related to Level 1 and Level 2 acquisitions. Prohibits entering into an undefinitized contractual action unless such action is directly approved by the Coast Guard's Head of Contracting Activity. Defines "undefinitized contractual action," subject to exception, as a new procurement action for which the contractual terms, specifications, or price are not agreed on before performance is begun under the action. Regulates such actions. Requires the Commandant to issue guidance to ensure that pass-through charges on contracts, subcontracts, delivery orders, and task orders entered into with a private entity acting as a lead systems integrator are not excessive in relation to the cost of the work performed. Requires the Comptroller General to report on the employment during the preceding year by Coast Guard contractors of individuals who were Coast Guard officials in the previous five-year period. Requires the Commandant to: (1) take actions to support the establishment of mature and stable operational requirements for acquisitions; and (2) develop staffing predictions, define human capital performance initiatives, and identify preliminary training needs. Prohibits the Commandant from establishing a Level 1 or Level 2 acquisition project or program until the Commandant: (1) clearly defines the project or program operational requirements; (2) establishes the feasibility of alternatives; (3) develops an acquisition project or program baseline; (4) produces a life-cycle cost estimate; and (5) assesses the alternatives. Requires compliance with applicable TEMPEST certification requirements. Requires the Commandant to submit specified information to Congress (including performance parameters, interoperability attributes, baseline and acquisition unit costs, and an acquisition process schedule) before any Level 1 or Level 2 acquisition project may begin to obtain any capability or asset or proceed beyond the development phase that entails the supporting acquisition approval. Prohibits the Coast Guard from acquiring an experimental or technically immature capability or asset or implementing a Level 1 or Level 2 acquisition project or program unless it has prepared an analysis of alternatives in the concept and technology development phase. Requires the Chief Acquisition Officer, for any Level 1 or Level 2 program or project, to approve a test and evaluation master plan. Requires the Commandant to ensure that developmental test and evaluation, operational test and evaluation, certain life-cycle cost estimates, and the development and demonstration requirements are met to confirm that the projects or programs meet the requirements identified in the mission analysis and affordability assessment, specified operational requirements, and enumerated development and demonstration objectives. Directs the Commandant to ensure that any Level 1 or Level 2 acquisition is certified by the technical authority of the Coast Guard after review by an independent third party with capabilities in the mission area, asset, or particular asset component. Requires testing in accordance with TEMPEST and communications security (comsec) standards by an independent third party of all electronics on all aircraft, surface, and shore capabilities and assets that require TEMPEST certification. Requires each cutter, other than a National Security Cutter, acquired by the Coast Guard and delivered after enactment of this Act to be classed by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) before final acceptance. Directs the Commandant to provide a report to Congress identifying any Coast Guard cutters that have been issued a certificate of classification by the ABS that have not been maintained in class and detailing the reasons why they have not been maintained in class. Requires that an independent third party assess: (1) the design and construction of each National Security Cutter, other than National Security Cutters 1, 2, and 3; and (2) before final acceptance, the airworthiness of all Coast Guard aircraft and aircraft engines. Requires the Commandant to: (1) ensure there is a stable and efficient production and support capability to develop an asset or capability for the Coast Guard; (2) conduct follow-on testing to confirm and monitor performance and correct deficiencies; and (3) conduct acceptance tests and trails prior to the delivery of each asset or system to ensure the delivered asset or system achieves full operational capability. Requires the Commandant to report to Congress within 30 days after the Chief Acquisition Officer becomes aware, in a Level 1 or Level 2 acquisition program, of certain likely cost overruns or delays or an anticipated failure for any individual or class of capabilities or assets to satisfy any key performance threshold or parameter. (Sec. 403) Requires a report before the Coast Guard awards any contract or issues any delivery order or task order to strengthen the hull of either of National Security Cutter 1 or 2 to resolve certain structural design and performance issues. (Sec. 404) Authorizes the Commandant, subject to limitation, to designate any category of acquisition positions as shortage category positions and to use the authorities in specified existing provisions to recruit and appoint highly qualified persons directly to such positions. Title V: Coast Guard Modernization - Coast Guard Modernization Act of 2010 - Subtitle A: Coast Guard Leadership - (Sec. 511) Authorizes the President to designate up to four positions of vice admiral and makes other revisions affecting Coast Guard leadership. Subtitle B: Workforce Expertise - (Sec. 521) Requires the Commandant to: (1) ensure that appropriate career paths are identified for Coast Guard personnel who wish to pursue careers in prevention or response positions; (2) report annually on the adequacy of the current marine safety workforce to meet the anticipated workload; and (3) establish a management information system for the prevention and response workforces. Requires there to be a Chief of Prevention in each Coast Guard sector. Authorizes the Commandant to establish and operate one or more centers of expertise for prevention and response missions. Requires the Commandant, by policy, to establish a program under which a Coast Guard officer, member, or employee may be assigned to a private entity to further Coast Guard interests regarding marine safety, including to train the person. Requires a related annual report. (Sec. 522) 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 achieving specified goals. Requires a related report to Congress. (Sec. 523) Requires that the individual with the highest rank who meets certain experience qualifications serve as the Commandant's principal marine safety advisor. (Sec. 524) Requires, except for the Commandant, that any individual adjudicating an appeal or waiver of a marine safety decision either have certain training, experience, and qualifications or be advised by a senior staff member who meets those requirements and concurs in the decision on appeal. (Sec. 525) Requires a marine safety curriculum at the Coast Guard Academy and during other officer accession programs. (Sec. 526) Requires the Commandant to report on the Coast Guard's 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 VI: Marine Safety - Maritime Safety Act of 2010 - (Sec. 602) Amends the American Fisheries Act to allow the owner of an eligible vessel, in order to improve vessel safety and operational efficiencies (including fuel efficiency), to rebuild or replace that vessel with a vessel documented with a fishery endorsement. Authorizes the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to recommend for approval by the Secretary of Commerce conservation and management measures, including size limits and measures to control fishing capacity, to ensure that the effectiveness of fishery management plans of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area or the Gulf of Alaska is not diminished. Establishes special rules, including rules pertaining to vessel length, U.S. vessel ownership requirements, international agreements, certain catcher vessels, fishery endorsement limitations, and replacement vessels in the Gulf of Alaska. Repeals exemptions for specified vessels. (Sec. 603) Directs the Commandant to report on the efficacy of the Coast Guard's cold weather survival training. (Sec. 604) Revises safety requirements for uninspected commercial fishing industry vessels, including requiring that such vessels be equipped with equipment to minimize the risk of crew injury during vessel operations. Requires that the individual in charge of a vessel pass a training program that: (1) is based on professional knowledge and skill obtained through sea service and hands-on training; (2) requires an individual to demonstrate the ability to communicate in an emergency situation and understand information found in navigation publications; and (3) recognizes and gives credit for recent past experience in fishing vessel operation. Directs the Secretary to establish a publicly accessible database listing individuals who have successfully completed a training program. Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) a competitive Fishing Safety Training Grants Program; and (2) a competitive Fishing Safety Research Grant Program. Authorizes appropriations. Changes the name of the Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Safety Advisory Committee to the Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory Committee. Extends the Committee's termination date from September 30, 2010, to September 30, 2020. Applies existing load line provisions to fishing vessels that are built after July 1, 2012. Directs a fishing vessel built by July 1, 2012, that undergoes a substantial change to the dimension of or type of the vessel completed after the later of July 1, 2012, or the date the Secretary establishes standards for an alternate loadline compliance program, to comply with such an alternative loadline compliance program that is developed with the commercial fishing industry and prescribed by the Secretary. Requires fishing, fish tender, and fish processing vessels, when they meet certain length and other criteria, to meet all survey and classification requirements prescribed by the ABS or another similarly qualified organization approved by the Secretary. (Current law requires only fish processing vessels to meet those requirements.) Sets forth provisions for such vessels: (1) built before July 1, 2012, that undergo a substantial change to the dimension of or type of vessel completed after the later of July 1, 2012, or the date the Secretary establishes standards for an alternate safety compliance program, to comply with such program developed with the commercial fishing industry and prescribed by the Secretary; and (2) owned by a person owning more than 30 vessels to be excluded from alternate safety compliance requirements until January 1, 2030, if that owner enters into a compliance agreement with the Secretary that provides for a fixed schedule for all of the vessels owned by that person to meet such requirements by that date and the vessel owner is meeting that schedule. Directs the Secretary, by 2017, to prescribe an alternative safety compliance program. (Sec. 605) Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations requiring a vessel owner or managing operator of a commercial vessel, or the employer of a seaman on that vessel, to maintain records of each individual engaged on the vessel subject to inspection on matters of engagement, discharge, and service, and to make these records available to the individual and the Coast Guard on request. Imposes a civil monetary penalty for violations. (Sec. 606) Ends the exemption of certain vessels from towing vessel manning requirements. (Current law applies the exemption to vessels that are under 200 gross tons, that are engaged in the offshore mineral and oil industry, and that have offshore mineral and oil industry sites or equipment as their ultimate destination or place of departure.) (Sec. 607) Requires U.S. vessels (except those on a voyage from the United States to Canada) that are subject to inspection to have an official logbook with specified entries. (Sec. 608) Allows any individual who is authorized to enforce federal shipping law to: (1) remove a vessel's certificate if the vessel is operating in a condition that does not comply with the provisions of the certificate; (2) order the individual in charge of a vessel without a certificate on board to return the vessel to a mooring; and (3) direct an individual in charge of a vessel operated in an unsafe condition to take steps necessary for the safety of individuals on board. Requires the Secretary to establish vessel equipment standards that are: (1) based on performance using the best available technology economically achievable; and (2) operationally practical. Authorizes the Secretary to certify lifesaving equipment that is not required to be carried on vessels to ensure that such equipment is suitable for its intended purpose. (Sec. 609) Prohibits the Secretary from approving a survival craft as a safety device unless it ensures that no part of an individual is immersed in water. (Sec. 610) Applies certain vessel management requirements to a passenger vessel or small passenger vessel that transports 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. 611) Adds to the list of acts related to marine safety for which a seaman may not be discharged or discriminated against, including that the seaman testified in a maritime safety law enforcement proceeding or cooperated with a safety investigation. Replaces provisions permitting civil actions by a seaman alleging discharge or discrimination with provisions allowing the seaman to use the Department of Labor complaint process used by commercial drivers, railroad workers, and aviation workers. (Sec. 612) Requires certain new U.S. vessels with a construction contract date after enactment of this title, or delivered after January 1, 2011, to comply with specified oil fuel tank protection standards. (Sec. 613) Removes the requirement that the applicant oath for a license or certificate of registry be taken before a designated official. (Sec. 614) Allows eight-month advance renewals of merchant mariners' documents, merchant seamen's licenses, and merchant seaman certificates of registry. (Sec. 615) Authorizes the Secretary to extend the duration of expiring licenses, certificates of registry, and merchant mariner documents for up to one year to enable the Coast Guard to eliminate an applications backlog or in response to a national emergency or natural disaster. (Sec. 616) Directs the Commandant to report regarding the feasibility of: (1) expanding to all Coast Guard processing centers the streamlined evaluation process program that was affiliated with the Coast Guard's Houston Regional Examination Center; (2) simplifying the application process for a license as an officer, staff officer, or operator and for a merchant mariner's document; (3) providing notice to an applicant of the status of the pending application; and (4) ensuring that all information collected regarding applications for new or renewed licenses, merchant mariner documents, and certificates of registry is retained in a secure electronic format. (Sec. 617) Removes tonnage limits from the definition of "offshore supply vessel." Revises offshore supply vessels provisions regarding: (1) scale of employment and able seamen; (2) minimum number of licensed individuals; (3) watches; and (4) oil fuel tank protection. (Sec. 618) Amends the definition of "associated equipment" to include certain radio equipment associated with emergency locator beacons for recreational vessels operating beyond three nautical miles from the baselines from which the territorial sea of the United States is measured or beyond three nautical miles from the coastline of the Great Lake. (Sec. 619) Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to require the installation, maintenance, and use of life preservers and other lifesaving devices for individuals on board uninspected vessels. (Sec. 620) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Commandant, to study, and report on, the use, safety, and performance of blended fuels in marine applications. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 621) Extends through FY2020 the termination date of the Great Lakes Pilotage Advisory Committee, the National Boating Safety Advisory Council, the Houston-Galveston Navigation Safety Advisory Committee, the Lower Mississippi River Waterway Safety Advisory Committee, the Towing Safety Advisory Committee, and the Navigation Safety Advisory Council. Revises other requirements for the National Boating Safety Advisory Council, the Lower Mississippi River Waterway Safety Advisory Committee, the Towing Safety Advisory Committee, the Navigation Safety Advisory Council, and the Delaware River and Bay Oil Spill Advisory Committee. (Sec. 622) Authorizes the Secretary to delegate to the ABS or another classification society the authority to: (1) review and approve plans required for issuing a certificate of inspection, a certificate of compliance, or any other certification and related documents issued by the Coast Guard under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act; and (2) conduct inspections and examinations. Imposes certain requirements on a delegation to a foreign classification society. Revises requirements classification societies must meet. Title VII: Oil Pollution Prevention - (Sec. 701) Requires a report to Congress on the status of all Coast Guard rulemakings required or being developed (but not issued) under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act). Requires that such rules be issued within 18 months following the enactment of this Act. (Sec. 702) Requires regulations to reduce the risks of oil spills in operations involving the transfer of oil from, or to, a tank vessel. Allows enforcement of certain state laws or regulations that are at least as stringent as such regulations. (Sec. 703) Directs the Secretary to report on: (1) oil spills involving human error; (2) near-miss oil spill incidents; (3) gaps in required data, including gaps in the ability to define and identify fatigue; and (4) recommendations by the Secretary and representatives of industry and labor and experts in the fields of marine casualties and human factors to address identified errors and any gaps in the data. Directs the Secretary to take action to reduce the risk of oil spills caused by human error. (Sec. 704) Directs the Secretary and the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere to revise the area to be avoided off the coast of the state of Washington so that restrictions apply to all vessels required to prepare a response plan under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (other than fishing or research vessels while engaged in fishing or research in the area to be avoided). (Sec. 705) Directs the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere to establish an oil spill prevention and education program for small vessels. Authorizes grants to carry out: (1) regional assessments of small oil spills; (2) voluntary, incentive-based clean marina programs; (3) cooperative oil spill prevention education programs; and (4) support for programs to address derelict vessels and the threat of such vessels sinking and discharging oil and other hazardous substances. Authorizes FY2010-FY2014 appropriations. (Sec. 706) Directs the Secretary to: (1) complete the development of a tribal consultation policy in order to improve the Coast Guard's consultation and coordination with tribal governments regarding oil spill prevention, preparedness, response and natural resource damage assessment; and (2) provide assistance to participating tribal governments. Authorizes FY2010-FY2014 appropriations. (Sec. 707) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the availability, feasibility, and potential cost of technology to detect the loss of oil carried as cargo or as fuel on tank and non-tank vessels greater than 400 gross tons. (Sec. 708) Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to make not more than $15 million of the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund available each fiscal year to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere for expenses and activities related to NOAA's response and damage assessment capabilities. Modifies requirements regarding Fund audits by the Comptroller General and requires a report to Congress and to the Secretary or Administrator of each federal agency that administers and manages amounts from the Fund. Requires an annual report to Congress (and to the public on the National Pollution Funds Center Internet website) containing a list of each Fund disbursement of $250,000 or more. (Sec. 709) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the Coast Guard pursues stronger IMO enforcement of oil discharge agreements. (Sec. 710) Requires the Commandant to modify the definition of the term "higher volume port area" in a specified Coast Guard regulation by replacing "Port Angeles, WA" with "Cape Flattery, WA." Requires the Coast Guard to complete its review of any changes to vessel response plans under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act resulting from such modification within five years. (Sec. 711) Encourages strongly the Commandant to enter into negotiations with the government of Canada to update the comparability analysis which serves as the basis for the Cooperative Vessel Traffic Service agreement between the United States and Canada for the management of maritime traffic in Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia, Haro Strait, Rosario Strait, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Requires that such updated analysis consider: (1) requirements for laden tank vessels to be escorted by tug boats; (2) vessel emergency response towing capability at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca; and (3) spill response capability throughout the shared water. Amends the the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to require that double hulled tankers over 5,000 gross tons transporting bulk oil in Prince William Sound, Alaska, be escorted by at least two towing vessels. 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, within one year after enactment of this Act. (Sec. 712) Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to require any tank vessel over 100 gross tons using any place subject to U.S. jurisdiction to establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility sufficient to meet the maximum amount of liability to which the responsible party could be subjected under specified provisions. (Sec. 713) Includes the owner of oil being transported in a tank vessel with a single hull after December 31, 2010, subject to exception, in the definition of "responsible party." Title VIII: Port Security - (Sec. 801) Establishes the America's Waterway Watch Program to promote voluntary reporting of activities relating to terrorism against a vessel, facility, port, or waterway. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 802) Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to report to Congress 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. 803) Revises enumerated characteristics of interagency operational centers for port security at high-priority ports to: (1) include information and sensor management systems and, where practicable, the physical co-location of the Coast Guard with, as the Secretary determines appropriate, previously participating representatives of specified federal agencies (including the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Transportation Security Administration [TSA], Department of Justice [DOJ], and DOD), state and local enforcement or port security personnel, the American Maritime Security Committee, and other public and private sector stakeholders adversely affected by a transportation security incident or transportation disruption; and (2) exclude the utilization of certain pilot project and virtual operational centers. (Sec. 804) Amends provisions related to maritime safety and security teams to require the Secretary to establish deployable specialized forces, including at least two enhanced teams capable of combating terrorism, engaging in interdiction, law enforcement, and advanced maritime security operations addressing armed security threats (including noncompliant actors at sea), and participating in maritime-related homeland security and counterterrorism exercises. Revises the mission of such forces to include operations to protect against weapons of mass destruction. (Sec. 805) Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, subject to available appropriations, 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. (Sec. 806) Allows the Secretary to find that a foreign port does not maintain effective antiterrorism measures without an inspection of such port. Requires the Secretary, unless the Secretary finds that a foreign port maintains such measures, to notify: (1) foreign authorities and recommend antiterrorism measures; and (2) passengers. (Current law requires such notices if the Secretary makes such a finding.) Authorizes conditions and denials of entry into the United States for certain vessels unless the Secretary makes such a finding. Authorizes the 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 in: (1) bringing the port or facility into compliance with applicable International Ship and Port Facility Code standards; and (2) correcting deficiencies identified in specified periodic port assessments and reassessments. Modifies requirements regarding port security antiterrorism efforts in ports and facilities in foreign countries and U.S. territories. (Sec. 807) Directs the Secretary to conduct, in the maritime environment, a program for the mobile biometric identification (fingerprint and digital photography images and facial and iris scan technology and other technology considered applicable by DHS) of suspected individuals, including terrorists, to enhance border security and for other purposes. Requires a report 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 DHS maritime vessels and units. Requires a study on the use by the Coast Guard and other departmental entities of the combination of biometric technologies to rapidly identify individuals for security purposes. (Sec. 808) 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 of not less than 20 facilities operated by or under contract with a DHS agency that fingerprints the public. Terminates the directive one year after establishment of the required facilities. (Sec. 809) Requires issuance of a biometric transportation security card to an individual issued a license, certificate of registry, or merchant mariners document, and to 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. 810) Modifies the composition of Maritime Security Advisory Committees and extends the termination date to September 30, 2020. Requires each committee, by September 30, 2018, to submit to Congress its recommendation regarding whether the committee should be renewed and continued beyond the termination date. (Sec. 811) 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. 812) Directs the Secretary to: (1) study and report on measures to improve the security of maritime transportation of especially hazardous cargo; and (2) develop a national strategy for the waterside security of vessels carrying, and waterfront facilities handling, such cargo. Requires the Coast Guard, consistent with other provisions of law, to enforce any security zone established by the Coast Guard around a vessel containing such cargo. Requires a related report. (Sec 813) Directs the Secretary, consistent with other provisions of law, to make a recommendation, after considering state recommendations, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as to whether the waterway to a proposed waterside liquefied natural gas facility is recommended as suitable for associated marine traffic. (Sec. 814) Authorizes the Secretary to use a secondary authentication system to verify the identification of individuals using transportation security cards when fingerprints are not able to be taken or read. (Sec. 815) Directs the Secretary to prepare an assessment of the enrollment sites for transportation security cards, including regarding the feasibility of keeping those enrollment sites open after enactment of this Act and regarding customer service quality. Directs the Secretary to develop timelines and benchmarks for implementing the assessment's findings. (Sec. 816) Directs the Secretary to assess and report on the feasibility of efforts to mitigate the threat of small boat attack in security zones of major ports, including the use of transponders, radio frequency identification devices, and high-frequency surface radar systems to track small boats. (Sec. 817) Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress on security background checks under state and federal transportation security programs and whether they should be limited and made uniform. (Sec. 818) Revises requirements for the issuance of transportation security cards. Allows applicants escorted access to restricted areas pending issuance or reissuance of a card. Requires the Secretary to: (1) respond to an initial transportation security card application, or review an appeal or waiver request, within 30 days after its receipt; and (2) develop a process to permit an individual approved for a transportation security card to receive it at the individual's place of residence or at the enrollment center of the individual's choosing, if the Comptroller General finds in a report to Congress that such a process is feasible and secure. (Sec. 819) Authorizes the Secretary to extend for up to one year the expiration of a transportation security card so as to align the expiration with the expiration of a license, certificate of registry, or merchant mariner document. (Sec. 820) Authorizes the Secretary to issue port security regulations. (Sec. 821) Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish port security training requirements for certification of facility security officers; (2) develop and certify (with state and local enforcement agencies and industry stakeholders) specified security training requirements for federal, state, and local seaport security officials; and (3) develop (with maritime institutions and industry stakeholders) geographically balanced training capacity for personnel seeking certification. (Sec. 822) Requires the owner or operator of a facility that may be involved in a transportation security incident to: (1) make its vulnerability assessment available to the port authority with jurisdiction of the facility and appropriate state or local law enforcement agencies; and (2) integrate any security system for the facility with compatible systems operated or maintained by the appropriate state, law enforcement agencies, and the Coast Guard. (Sec. 823) Requires the Secretary to develop a plan to permit the receipt and activation of transportation security cards at any specified vessel or facility that desires to implement such capability. (Sec. 824) Directs the Secretary, subject to the availability of appropriations, to ensure that interoperable communications technology is deployed at specified interagency operational centers and that such technology and equipment has been tested in live operational environments before deployment. (Sec. 825) Requires the Secretary, to the extent practicable, to concurrently conduct or integrate Coast Guard assessments required by specified provisions related to the SAFE Port Act and interagency operational centers for port security. Directs the Secretary to provide written notice to Congress whenever two or more assessments of the same port are conducted within a three-year period. (Sec. 826) Amends Area Maritime Transportation Security Plan requirements to include area response and recovery protocols to prepare for, respond to, mitigate against, and recover from a transportation security incident. (Sec. 827) Requires the development and utilization of a national standard and formula for prioritizing and addressing assessed security risks at U.S. ports and facilities on or adjacent to the waterways of the United States, such as the Maritime Security Risk Assessment Model tested by DHS. Directs the Secretary to use such standard to: (1) require each Area Maritime Security Committee to evaluate and prioritize mitigation of each port's risks; and (2) consider resource allocations and grant-making decisions. Makes the Coast Guard's Maritime Security Risk Assessment Model available, in an unclassified version, on a limited basis to regulated vessels and facilities to conduct true risk assessments of their own facilities and vessels using Coast Guard criteria. (Sec. 828) Directs the Commandant to establish, by regulation, national standards for training and credentialing law enforcement personnel to enforce a security zone or assist in such enforcement. Defines "security zone" as a zone established by the Commandant pursuant to specified acts for a vessel carrying especially hazardous cargo when such vessel: (1) enters, or operates within, U.S. internal waters and territorial seas; or (2) transfers such cargo or residue in any port or place, under U.S. jurisdiction, within such seas and waters. Requires the Commandant to develop training curriculum and allows agreements with public or private entities to test and deliver such training. Establishes a related training grant. Title IX: Miscellaneous Provisions - (Sec. 901) Authorizes the Secretary, notwithstanding specified provisions, to issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for two named and numbered vessels. Authorizes the Secretary, notwithstanding specified provisions, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for two named and numbered GALLANT LADY vessels. (Current law provides the Secretary of Transportation such authorization.) Limits authorized nonrecreational activity for a specified GALLANT LADY vessel to the transportation of individuals on behalf of certain tax exempt organizations for which the owner of the vessel receives no compensation. Allows the Secretary of Transportation to issue a waiver allowing a documented vessel with a registry endorsement or a foreign flag vessel to be used in operations that treat aquaculture fish for or protect aquaculture fish from disease, parasitic infestation, or other health threats if, after a notice is published in the Federal Register, a suitable U.S. vessel is not available that could perform those services. (Current law requires vessels to have a certificate of documentation with an endorsement before engaging in a trade.) (Sec. 902) 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. 903) Removes the requirement that appointments of cadets to the Coast Guard Academy be made without regard to the sex, race, color, or religious beliefs of an applicant. (Sec. 904) Permits a U.S. purse seine fishing vessel fishing exclusively for highly migratory species in the treaty area under a fishing license issued pursuant to the 1987 Treaty on Fisheries Between the Governments of Certain Pacific Islands States and the Government of the United States of America, or transiting to or from the treaty area exclusively for such purpose, to engage foreign citizens to meet the manning requirement (except for the master) through December 31, 2012, if it has an annual safety examination. (Sec. 905) Directs the Commandant to report 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. 906) 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. (Current law so prohibits when such an individual is engaged on a vessel operating on navigable waters of more than one state). (Sec. 907) Authorizes the Commandant to convey as federal surplus property real property commonly identified as Coast Guard Station Marquette and Lighthouse Point to the city of Marquette, Michigan. Requires responsibility for all reasonable and necessary costs, including real estate transaction and environmental documentation costs, to be determined by the Commandant and the city. (Sec. 908) Directs the Secretary to prepare a mission requirement analysis for the navigable portions of the Rio Grande River, Texas, international water boundary. Requires a related report. (Sec. 909) Authorizes the Commandant, notwithstanding any other law, to convey, at fair market value, a parcel of about three acres of real property that is under the Coast Guard's administrative control in Cheboygan, Michigan. Requires responsibility for all reasonable and necessary costs, including real estate transaction and environmental documentation costs, to be determined by the Commandant and the purchaser. (Sec. 910) Directs the Secretary, on request of the governor of Texas or the governor of Oklahoma, to enter into an agreement whereby the state shall license operators of uninspected passenger vessels operating on Lake Texoma in Texas and Oklahoma in lieu of the Secretary issuing the license under specified provisions, but only if the state plan for licensing such operators meets certain requirements. (Sec. 911) Directs the Secretary to submit a report to Congress on its comprehensive strategy to combat the illicit flow of narcotics, weapons, bulk cash, and other contraband through the use of submersible and semi-submersible vessels. (Sec. 912) Shields an owner, operator, time charterer, master, mariner, or individual who uses, or authorizes the use of, force to defend a vessel of the United States against piracy from liability for monetary damages for any injury or death caused by such force to any person engaging in an act of piracy if such force was in accordance with standard rules for the use of force in self-defense of vessels prescribed by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to work through the IMO to establish agreements to promote coordinated action among flag- and port-states to deter, protect against, and rapidly respond to piracy against the vessels of, and in the waters under the jurisdiction of, those nations, and to ensure limitations on liability similar to those established by this section of this Act. Requires the Secretary to develop standard rules for the use of force for self-defense of U.S. vessels. (Sec. 913) Amends provisions relating to commercial instruments and maritime liens to substitute references to the DHS Secretary for certain current references to the Secretary of Transportation. (Sec. 914) Requires the Coast Guard, whenever the transfer of ownership of a Coast Guard vessel or aircraft for use for educational, cultural, historical, charitable, recreational, or other public purposes is authorized by law or declared excess by the Commandant, to transfer the vessel or aircraft to the General Services Administration (GSA) for conveyance. Sets forth conveyance conditions. (Sec. 915) Directs the Commandant to: (1) determine the types and numbers of vessels utilizing a specified portion of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in Dade County, Florida; (2) assess the adequacy of navigational aids in and along such portion of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway; and (3) submit a related report to Congress. (Sec. 916) Directs the Commandant to determine the necessity and adequacy of existing federal aids to navigation at Presque Isle Light Station, Presque Isle, Michigan and submit such determination to Congress. Allows the Commandant to transfer to the Township of Presque Isle, Michigan, subject to conditions and with reservations, possession of the Fresnel Lens from the Light Station for the purpose of conserving and displaying such Fresnel Lens as an artifact in an exhibition facility. (Sec. 917) Amends federal criminal law to specify the following maritime penalties (in addition to the fine/five-year incarceration under current law): (1) fine and/or incarceration for any term of years or life if the offense results in death or involves kidnapping or attempt to kidnap, the conduct required for aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit such abuse, or an attempt to kill; and (2) fine and/or up to 15 years incarceration for offenses resulting in serious bodily injury or (if committed in the course of committing other specified offenses including alien smuggling, peonage, slavery, trafficking, or certain maritime, territorial jurisdiction, and domestic habitual offender assaults) transportation under inhumane conditions. 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. Revises the definitions of vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and vessel of the United States in federal criminal code provisions related to sanctions for failure to heave to, obstruction of boarding, and providing false information. (Sec. 918) Directs the Commandant to submit to Congress the Coast Guard's five-year capital investment plan concurrent with the President's budget submission for each fiscal year. (Sec. 919) Limits in FY2011 the total amount of appropriated funds obligated or expended by the Coast Guard during any fiscal year in connection with any study or report required by law to the total amount of appropriated funds obligated or expended by the Coast Guard for such purpose in FY2010. Directs the Commandant to establish for each fiscal year a rank order of priority for studies and reports that can be conducted or completed consistent with such limitation and post the list on the Coast Guard's public website. (Sec. 920) States that the budgetary effects of this Act, for purposes of Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 compliance, shall be determined by reference to the latest statement titled "Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation" for this Act, jointly submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairmen of the House and Senate Budget Committees, provided that such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage in the House acting first on the conference report or amendments between the Houses. (Sec. 921) Defines the term "aquarium" or "public aquarium" in provisions of the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 regarding the conveyance by the Secretary of property known as the Naval Reserve Pier property in Portland, Maine, to the Gulf of Maine Aquarium Development Corporation. Title X: Clean Hulls - Subtitle A: General Provisions - (Sec. 1011) Defines "antifouling system" as a coating, paint, surface treatment, surface, or device used on a vessel to control or prevent attachment of unwanted organisms. (Sec. 1012) Defines "covered vessel" to mean any vessel (except U.S. or foreign warships, naval auxiliary, or other government noncommercial service vessels) that is: (1) documented under U.S. laws; (2) authorized to operate on the Outer Continental Shelf; or (3) otherwise operating in U.S. internal waters or territorial seas, or is in a U.S. port. Subtitle B: Implementation of the Convention - (Sec. 1021) Requires covered vessels of at least 400 gross tons that engage in one or more international voyages, upon entry into force of the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-Fouling Systems on Ships, 2001, to carry an International Antifouling System Certificate, issued by the Secretary. Exempts from this requirement fixed or floating platforms, floating storage units (FSUs), and floating production, storage, or offloading units (FPSOs). Authorizes such vessels of countries that are not a party to the Convention to comply with the title's requirement through other appropriate documentation considered acceptable by the Secretary. (Sec. 1022) Requires covered vessels of at least 24 meters in length, but less than 400 gross tons, engaged on an international voyage (with the same exceptions as for vessels of at least 400 tons), to carry a signed declaration that the vessel's antifouling system complies with the Convention. (Sec. 1024) Sets forth a process for considering additional controls on antifouling systems. (Sec. 1025) Authorizes the Secretary, the EPA Administrator, and the NOAA Administrator to each undertake scientific and technical research and monitoring and promote the availability of information regarding: (1) scientific and technical activities undertaken in accordance with the Convention; (2) marine scientific and technological programs and their objectives; and (3) the effects observed from any monitoring and assessment programs relating to antifouling systems. (Sec.1026) Directs the EPA Administrator to provide to any party to the Convention that requests information on which decisions to regulate are based or other information used to evaluate the antifouling system. Subtitle C: Prohibitions and Enforcement Authority - (Sec. 1031) Makes it unlawful for a person to: (1) violate a requirement of this title; (2) sell or distribute domestically or internationally organotin (biocide) or an antifouling system containing organotin; (3) manufacture or use organotin to formulate an antifouling system; (4) apply an antifouling system that contains organotin on a vessel; or (5) apply an antifouling system on a vessel in violation of the Convention. Prohibits the hull of a vessel, with specified exceptions, from bearing an antifouling system that contains organotin, unless it bears an overcoating that forms a barrier to organotin leaching from the underlying antifouling system. (Sec. 1032) Authorizes the Secretary to investigate and enforce vessel compliance with the requirements of this title or the Convention. (Sec. 1033) Authorizes inspections by officers or employees of the EPA or of any state designated by the EPA Administrator. Subtitle D: Action on Violation, Penalties, and Referrals - (Sec. 1041) Subjects a person who knowingly violates this Act or the Convention to specified criminal and civil penalties. (Sec. 1043) Establishes in rem liability for criminal fines or specified civil penalties imposed on a vessel operated in violation of the Convention, this title, or regulations prescribed under this title. Allows such vessel to be proceeded against in the U.S. district court of any district in which the vessel may be found. (Sec. 1044) Authorizes the refusal or revocation of the clearance required before a vessel may proceed from a port or place in the United States for a foreign place, for another U.S. place, or outside the territorial sea if: (1) any vessel that is subject to the Convention or this title, or its owner, operator, or person in charge, is liable for a fine or civil penalty under specified sections of this title; or (2) reasonable cause exists to believe that the vessel, its owner, operator, or person in charge may be subject to such fine or civil penalty. (Sec. 1045) Permits the Secretary to warn, detain, dismiss, or exclude from any U.S. port or offshore terminal a vessel detected to be in violation of the Convention, this title, or any regulation prescribed under this title. (Sec. 1046) Authorizes the Secretary, rather than taking actions otherwise required or authorized by this subtitle, to refer a matter to the government of the country of the vessel's registry or nationality, or under whose authority the vessel is operating, for appropriate action, if a violation of the Convention is committed by a vessel registered in or of the nationality of a country that is a party to the Convention, or by a vessel operated under the authority of a country that is a party to the Convention. (Sec. 1048) Repeals the Organotin Antifouling Paint Control Act of 1988.

coast guard authorization act title authorization sec authorizes fy2011 appropriations coast_guard including operation maintenance acquisition construction rebuilding improvement aids navigation shore offshore facilities vessels aircraft research development test evaluation technologies materials human factors relating coast_guard mission search rescue aids navigation marine safety marine environmental protection enforcement laws treaties ice operations oceanographic research defense readiness retired pay payments retired survivor benefit plans payments medical care retired personnel dependents alteration removal bridges navigable waters constituting obstructions navigation personnel administrative costs associated environmental compliance restoration coast_guard facilities coast_guard_reserve program sec active duty personnel end year strength fy2011 average military training student loads fy2011 recruit special training flight training professional training military civilian institutions officer acquisition 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 agreements establishments agencies departments department_of_defense dod department_of_homeland_security dhs sec requires reimbursement reasonable medical travel expenses covered beneficiary active duty members certain reserve members including regard army navy air_force marine_corps coast_guard commissioned corps national_oceanic_and_atmospheric_administration noaa commissioned corps public_health_service resides island located contiguous states district_of_columbia lacks public access roads mainland referred specialty care provider mainland regardless distance travel involved sec states total number coast_guard commissioned officers active duty promotion list excluding warrant officers shall exceed commandant temporarily increase number following commissioning coast_guard_academy class sets forth officer grade distribution provisions sec amends include coast_guard armed_forces retirement home system sec authorizes commandant coast guard grants enter cooperative agreements contracts international maritime organizations acquiring information merchant vessel inspections security safety environmental protection classification port state flag state law enforcement oversight sec requires duty assignment active duty member coast_guard support declaration major disaster emergency president robert stafford disaster relief emergency assistance act response spill national significance treated duty assignment support contingency operation purpose permitting member retain days 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 establishes merchant mariner medical advisory committee advise secretary medical certification determinations issuance licenses certificates registry merchant mariners documents 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 authorizes licensed officers merchant marine coast_guard_reserve coast_guard_reserve commissioned warrant officers sec modifies selection board requirements 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 current law coast_guard personnel penalties actions damages firing requires vessels aircraft designated secretary distinguished identifying insignia current law requires coast_guard vessels aircraft distinguished sec requires coast_guard_commandant appoint coast_guard district serve liaison coast_guard ports terminal operators shipowners labor representatives including examining complaints petitioner operating port coast_guard personnel sec raises mandatory retirement age flag officers serving grade rear admiral lower half allows deferral mandatory retirement age regular commissioned officer serving flag officer grade position secretary age president age current law allows deferral flag officers age sec authorizes coast_guard enforce provisions shipping law relating coastwise trade requires program established officers members enforcing laws related report sec requires commandant report annually sexual assaults involving members coast_guard sec prohibits coast_guard vessel home port state united_states guam repaired maintained shipyard outside united_states guam case voyage repairs current law makes reference guam sec directs secretary conclude study single domestic system needed navigation system global positioning system notify congress determination sec authorizes commandant use funds certain assistance foreign governments maritime authorities subject approval secretary state sec housing laws construction military family housing military unaccompanied housing repeals housing acquisition construction provisions related authorization direct loans private sector loan guarantees leasing contracts limited partnerships eligible entities disallows leasing certain property facilities private persons requires conveyance real property sale cash fair market value repeals certain authority related assignment armed forces members specified housing units eliminates demonstration projects certain contracts small business concerns qualified small business act sec authorizes commandant use appropriated funds provide child development services collect expend services fees based family income sec authorizes secretary navy detail personnel coast_guard provide support services including transportation food lodging child care supplies fees training materials chaplain led programs assist members coast_guard active duty dependents members reserve component active status dependents building maintaining strong family structure sec authorizes president award coast_guard cross silver star medals persons serving capacity coast_guard extraordinary action engaged action enemy specified actions title iii shipping amends rivers harbors appropriations act 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 civil penalty person knowingly intentionally possesses controlled substance vessel subject jurisdiction united_states sec revises provisions measurement vessels including changing definition vessel engaged foreign voyage modifying international tonnage certificate provisions sec directs secretary submit congress plan including estimated costs ensure process application individual applied transportation security card specified provisions merchant mariner document completed entirely mail report redesign merchant mariner document sec requires commandant conjunction administrator environmental_protection_agency epa report new existing technology reducing air emissions cargo passenger ships waters ports impediments demonstrating technology sec allows foreign flag vessels notwithstanding specified provisions insufficient vessels documented law reasonably available suitable chartered limited time setting relocation recovery anchors mooring equipment mobile offshore drilling unit outer_continental_shelf operations support exploration flow testing stimulation wells offshore mineral energy resources beaufort_sea adjacent alaska sec encourages secretary work international_maritime_organization imo establish agreements promote coordinated action united_states russia canada norway denmark seafaring arctic nations ensure arctic placement maintenance aids navigation appropriate icebreaking escort tug salvage capabilities oil spill prevention response capability maritime domain awareness including long range vessel tracking search rescue directs secretary require nongovernmental independent party conduct comparative cost benefit analysis rebuilding renovating improving existing fleet coast_guard polar icebreakers constructing new coast_guard polar icebreakers constructing renovating icebreakers national_science_foundation nsf nsf operation combination activities directs secretary require nongovernmental independent party conduct analysis impact coast_guard activities assuming coast_guard funding increase annual rate inflation acquisition icebreakers coast_guard nsf requires related report commandant recommendations requires commandant report congress assessment polar icebreaking mission requirements title acquisition reform sec establishes coast_guard chief acquisition officer sec establishes acquisition directorate provide guidance oversight implementation management coast_guard acquisition processes programs projects prohibits assigning individual program manager level acquisition individual holds level iii acquisition certification program manager level acquisition individual holds level acquisition certification program manager requires commandant issue guidance qualifications resources responsibilities tenure accountability acquisition program managers develop strategy enhancing role coast_guard project program managers developing carrying acquisition programs establish management information system capability improve acquisition workforce management reporting establish acquisition management core competency certain coast_guard career paths requires commandant designate sufficient number positions coast_guard acquisition workforce perform acquisition related functions report annually congress scope acquisition activities performed fiscal year prohibits commandant private sector entity lead systems integrator acquisition contracts delivery orders task orders issued enactment act excludes prohibition completion response system modernization program certain projects related program prohibits subject exceptions entity performing lead system integrator functions coast_guard acquisition tier subcontractor acquisition having financial interest subcontractor tier subcontractor level terminates exception subject exceptions earlier september commandant certifies congress coast_guard available retain sufficient acquisition workforce personnel expertise public private sector perform functions responsibilities lead systems integrator efficient cost effective manner sets forth required contract terms prohibited provisions certain capability asset acquisitions requires integrated product teams teams oversee integrated product teams chaired officers members employees coast_guard requires commandant arrangements appropriate secretary defense support contracting management coast_guard acquisition programs directs comptroller general transmit report congress management recommendations related level level acquisitions prohibits entering undefinitized contractual action action directly approved coast_guard head contracting activity defines undefinitized contractual action subject exception new procurement action contractual terms specifications price agreed performance begun action regulates actions requires commandant issue guidance ensure pass charges contracts subcontracts delivery orders task orders entered private entity acting lead systems integrator excessive relation cost work performed requires comptroller general report employment preceding year coast_guard contractors individuals coast_guard officials previous year period requires commandant actions support establishment mature stable operational requirements acquisitions develop staffing define human capital performance initiatives identify preliminary training needs prohibits commandant establishing level level acquisition project program commandant clearly defines project program operational requirements establishes feasibility alternatives develops acquisition project program baseline produces life cycle cost estimate assesses alternatives requires compliance applicable certification requirements requires commandant submit specified information congress including performance parameters interoperability attributes baseline acquisition unit costs acquisition process schedule level level acquisition project begin obtain capability asset proceed development phase supporting acquisition approval prohibits coast_guard acquiring experimental technically capability asset implementing level level acquisition project program prepared analysis alternatives concept technology development phase requires chief acquisition officer level level program project approve test evaluation master plan requires commandant ensure developmental test evaluation operational test evaluation certain life cycle cost estimates development demonstration requirements met confirm projects programs meet requirements identified mission analysis affordability assessment specified operational requirements enumerated development demonstration objectives directs commandant ensure level level acquisition certified technical authority coast_guard review independent party capabilities mission area asset particular asset component requires testing accordance communications security standards independent party electronics aircraft surface shore capabilities assets require certification requires cutter national_security_cutter acquired coast_guard delivered enactment act classed american_bureau_of_shipping final acceptance directs commandant provide report congress identifying coast_guard cutters issued certificate classification maintained class detailing reasons maintained class requires independent party assess design construction national_security_cutter final acceptance airworthiness coast_guard aircraft aircraft engines requires commandant ensure stable efficient production support capability develop asset capability coast_guard conduct follow testing confirm monitor performance correct deficiencies conduct acceptance tests trails prior delivery asset system ensure delivered asset system achieves operational capability requires commandant report congress days chief acquisition officer aware level level acquisition program certain likely cost overruns delays anticipated failure individual class capabilities assets satisfy key performance threshold sec requires report coast_guard awards contract issues delivery order task order strengthen hull national_security_cutter resolve certain structural design performance issues sec authorizes commandant subject limitation designate category acquisition positions shortage category positions use authorities specified existing provisions recruit appoint highly qualified persons directly positions title coast guard modernization coast guard modernization act subtitle coast guard leadership sec authorizes president designate positions vice admiral makes revisions affecting coast_guard leadership subtitle sec requires commandant ensure appropriate career paths identified coast_guard personnel wish pursue careers prevention response positions report annually adequacy current marine safety workforce meet anticipated workload establish management information system prevention response requires chief prevention coast_guard sector authorizes commandant establish operate centers expertise prevention response missions requires commandant policy establish program coast_guard officer member employee assigned private entity coast_guard interests marine safety including train person requires related annual report sec directs secretary develop long term strategy improving vessel safety safety individuals vessels including annual issuance plan schedule achieving specified goals requires related report congress sec requires individual highest rank meets certain experience qualifications serve commandant principal marine safety advisor sec requires commandant individual adjudicating appeal waiver marine safety decision certain training experience qualifications advised senior staff member meets requirements concurs decision appeal sec requires marine safety curriculum coast_guard_academy officer accession programs sec requires commandant report coast_guard efforts recruit retain civilian marine inspectors investigators impact recruitment retention efforts coast_guard organizational performance title safety act sec amends american fisheries act allow owner eligible vessel order improve vessel safety operational efficiencies including fuel efficiency rebuild replace vessel vessel documented fishery endorsement authorizes north_pacific_fishery_management_council recommend approval secretary commerce conservation management measures including size limits measures control fishing capacity ensure effectiveness fishery management plans bering_sea aleutian_islands_management_area gulf_of_alaska diminished establishes special rules including rules pertaining vessel length vessel ownership requirements international agreements certain catcher vessels fishery endorsement limitations replacement vessels gulf_of_alaska repeals exemptions specified vessels sec directs commandant report efficacy coast_guard cold weather survival training sec revises safety requirements uninspected commercial fishing industry vessels including requiring vessels equipped equipment minimize risk crew injury vessel operations requires individual charge vessel pass training program based professional knowledge skill obtained sea service hands training requires individual demonstrate ability communicate emergency situation understand information found navigation publications recognizes gives credit recent past experience fishing vessel operation directs secretary establish publicly accessible database listing individuals successfully completed training program requires secretary establish competitive fishing safety training grants program competitive fishing safety research grant program authorizes appropriations changes extends committee termination date september september applies existing load line provisions fishing vessels built july directs fishing vessel built july undergoes substantial change dimension type vessel completed later july date secretary establishes standards alternate compliance program comply alternative compliance program developed commercial fishing industry prescribed secretary requires fishing fish tender fish processing vessels meet certain length criteria meet survey classification requirements prescribed similarly qualified organization approved secretary current law requires fish processing vessels meet requirements sets forth provisions vessels built july undergo substantial change dimension type vessel completed later july date secretary establishes standards alternate safety compliance program comply program developed commercial fishing industry prescribed secretary owned person owning vessels excluded alternate safety compliance requirements january owner enters compliance agreement secretary provides fixed schedule vessels owned person meet requirements date vessel owner meeting schedule directs secretary prescribe alternative safety compliance program sec authorizes secretary issue regulations requiring vessel owner managing operator commercial vessel employer seaman vessel maintain records individual engaged vessel subject inspection matters engagement discharge service records available individual coast_guard request imposes civil monetary penalty violations sec ends exemption certain vessels towing vessel manning requirements current law applies exemption vessels gross tons engaged offshore mineral oil industry offshore mineral oil industry sites equipment ultimate destination place departure sec requires vessels voyage united_states canada subject inspection official logbook specified entries sec allows individual authorized enforce federal shipping law remove vessel certificate vessel operating condition comply provisions certificate order individual charge vessel certificate board return vessel mooring direct individual charge vessel operated unsafe condition steps necessary safety individuals board requires secretary establish vessel equipment standards based performance best available technology economically achievable operationally practical authorizes secretary certify lifesaving equipment required carried vessels ensure equipment suitable intended purpose sec prohibits secretary approving survival craft safety device ensures individual water sec applies certain vessel management requirements passenger vessel small passenger vessel transports passengers number prescribed secretary based number individuals vessel killed injured marine casualty sec adds list acts related marine safety seaman discharged discriminated including seaman testified maritime safety law enforcement proceeding cooperated safety investigation replaces provisions permitting civil actions seaman alleging discharge discrimination provisions allowing seaman use department_of_labor complaint process commercial drivers railroad workers aviation workers sec requires certain new vessels construction contract date enactment title delivered january comply specified oil fuel tank protection standards sec removes requirement applicant oath license certificate registry taken designated official sec allows month advance renewals merchant mariners documents merchant seamen licenses merchant seaman certificates registry sec authorizes secretary extend duration expiring licenses certificates registry merchant mariner documents year enable coast_guard eliminate applications backlog response national emergency natural disaster sec directs commandant report feasibility expanding coast_guard processing centers streamlined evaluation process program affiliated coast_guard simplifying application process license officer staff officer operator merchant mariner document providing notice applicant status pending application ensuring information collected applications new renewed licenses merchant mariner documents certificates registry retained secure electronic format sec removes tonnage limits definition offshore supply vessel revises offshore supply vessels provisions scale employment able seamen minimum number licensed individuals watches oil fuel tank protection sec amends definition associated equipment include certain radio equipment associated emergency locator recreational vessels operating nautical miles baselines territorial sea united_states measured nautical miles coastline sec directs secretary promulgate regulations require installation maintenance use life lifesaving devices individuals board uninspected vessels sec directs secretary homeland_security acting commandant study report use safety performance blended fuels marine applications authorizes appropriations sec extends fy2020 termination date great lakes advisory committee national_boating_safety_advisory_council houston navigation safety advisory committee lower mississippi river waterway safety advisory committee revises requirements national_boating_safety_advisory_council delaware_river sec authorizes secretary delegate classification society authority review approve plans required issuing certificate inspection certificate compliance certification related documents issued coast_guard outer_continental_shelf_lands_act conduct inspections examinations imposes certain requirements delegation foreign classification society revises requirements classification societies meet title vii oil pollution prevention sec requires report congress status coast_guard rulemakings required developed issued specified provisions federal_water_pollution_control_act commonly known clean water act requires rules issued months following enactment act sec requires regulations reduce risks oil spills operations involving transfer oil tank vessel allows enforcement certain state laws regulations stringent regulations sec directs secretary report oil spills involving human error near oil spill incidents gaps required data including gaps ability define identify fatigue recommendations secretary representatives industry labor experts fields marine casualties human factors address identified errors gaps data directs secretary action reduce risk oil spills caused human error sec directs secretary secretary commerce oceans atmosphere revise area avoided coast state washington restrictions apply vessels required prepare response plan specified provisions federal_water_pollution_control_act fishing research vessels engaged fishing research area avoided sec directs secretary commerce oceans atmosphere establish oil spill prevention education program small vessels authorizes grants carry regional assessments small oil spills voluntary incentive based clean marina programs cooperative oil spill prevention education programs support programs address derelict vessels threat vessels sinking discharging oil hazardous substances authorizes fy2010 fy2014 appropriations sec directs secretary complete development tribal consultation policy order improve coast_guard consultation coordination tribal governments oil spill prevention preparedness response natural resource damage assessment provide assistance participating tribal governments authorizes fy2010 fy2014 appropriations sec directs secretary report congress availability feasibility potential cost technology detect loss oil carried cargo fuel tank non tank vessels greater gross tons sec amends oil pollution act million oil_spill_liability_trust_fund available fiscal year secretary commerce oceans atmosphere expenses activities related noaa response damage assessment capabilities modifies requirements fund audits comptroller_general requires report congress secretary administrator federal agency administers manages amounts fund requires annual report congress public website containing list fund disbursement sec directs secretary ensure coast_guard stronger imo enforcement oil discharge agreements sec requires commandant modify definition term higher volume port area specified coast_guard regulation replacing port_angeles cape requires coast_guard complete review changes vessel response plans federal_water_pollution_control_act resulting modification years sec encourages strongly commandant enter negotiations government canada update comparability analysis serves basis agreement united_states canada management maritime traffic puget_sound strait georgia haro_strait strait_of_juan_de_fuca requires updated analysis consider requirements tank vessels tug boats vessel emergency response towing capability entrance strait_of_juan_de_fuca spill response capability shared water amends oil pollution act require double tankers gross tons transporting bulk oil alaska towing vessels requires commandant appropriate specified provisions federal_water_pollution_control_act prepare vessel traffic risk assessment alaska year enactment act sec amends oil pollution act require tank vessel gross tons place subject jurisdiction establish maintain evidence financial responsibility sufficient meet maximum liability responsible party subjected specified provisions sec includes owner oil transported tank vessel single hull december subject exception definition responsible party title viii sec establishes america waterway watch program promote voluntary reporting activities relating terrorism vessel facility port waterway authorizes appropriations sec requires secretary homeland_security report congress 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 revises enumerated characteristics interagency operational centers port security high priority ports include information sensor management systems practicable physical location coast_guard secretary determines appropriate previously participating representatives specified federal agencies including tsa department_of_justice doj dod state local enforcement port security personnel public private sector stakeholders adversely affected transportation security incident transportation disruption exclude utilization certain pilot project virtual operational centers sec amends provisions related maritime safety security teams require secretary establish deployable specialized forces including enhanced teams capable combating terrorism engaging interdiction law enforcement advanced maritime security operations addressing armed security threats including noncompliant actors sea participating maritime related homeland security counterterrorism exercises revises mission forces include operations protect weapons mass destruction sec requires secretary homeland_security subject available appropriations 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 sec allows secretary find foreign port maintain effective antiterrorism measures inspection port requires secretary secretary finds foreign port maintains measures notify foreign authorities recommend antiterrorism measures passengers current law requires notices secretary makes finding authorizes conditions denials entry united_states certain vessels secretary makes finding authorizes secretary lend lease donate provide equipment provide technical training support owner operator foreign port facility assist bringing port facility compliance applicable international ship port facility code standards correcting deficiencies identified specified periodic port assessments modifies requirements port security antiterrorism efforts ports facilities foreign countries territories sec directs secretary conduct maritime environment program mobile biometric identification fingerprint digital photography images scan technology technology considered applicable dhs suspected individuals including terrorists enhance border security purposes requires report cost expanding coast_guard biometric identification capabilities use coast_guard cutters stations deployable maritime teams appropriate dhs maritime vessels units requires study use coast_guard departmental entities combination biometric technologies rapidly identify individuals security purposes sec directs secretary homeland_security establish procedures providing individual required fingerprinted purposes obtaining transportation security card specified provisions fingerprinted facilities operated contract dhs agency fingerprints public terminates directive year establishment required facilities 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 modifies composition maritime security extends termination date september requires committee september submit congress recommendation committee renewed 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 directs secretary study report measures improve security maritime transportation especially hazardous cargo develop national strategy security vessels carrying waterfront facilities handling cargo requires coast_guard consistent provisions law enforce security zone established coast_guard vessel containing cargo requires related report directs secretary consistent provisions law recommendation considering state recommendations federal_energy_regulatory_commission ferc waterway proposed liquefied natural gas facility recommended suitable associated marine traffic sec authorizes secretary use secondary authentication system verify identification individuals transportation security cards fingerprints able taken read sec directs secretary prepare assessment enrollment sites transportation security cards including feasibility keeping enrollment sites open enactment act customer service quality directs secretary develop timelines benchmarks implementing assessment findings sec directs secretary assess report feasibility efforts mitigate threat small boat attack security zones major ports including use radio frequency identification devices high frequency surface radar systems track small boats sec directs comptroller general report congress security background checks state federal transportation security programs limited uniform sec revises requirements issuance transportation security cards allows applicants access restricted areas pending issuance reissuance card requires secretary respond initial transportation security card application review appeal waiver request days receipt develop process permit individual approved transportation security card receive individual place residence enrollment center individual choosing comptroller general finds report congress process feasible secure sec authorizes secretary extend year expiration transportation security card align expiration expiration license certificate registry merchant mariner document sec authorizes secretary issue port security regulations sec directs secretary establish port security training requirements certification facility security officers develop certify state local enforcement agencies industry stakeholders specified security training requirements federal state local seaport security officials develop maritime institutions industry stakeholders geographically balanced training capacity personnel seeking certification sec requires owner operator facility involved transportation security incident vulnerability assessment available port authority jurisdiction facility appropriate state local law enforcement agencies integrate security system facility compatible systems operated maintained appropriate state law enforcement agencies coast_guard sec requires secretary develop plan permit receipt activation transportation security cards specified vessel facility desires implement capability sec directs secretary subject availability appropriations ensure interoperable communications technology deployed specified interagency operational centers technology equipment tested live operational environments deployment sec requires secretary extent practicable concurrently conduct integrate coast_guard assessments required specified provisions related safe port act interagency operational centers port security directs secretary provide written notice congress assessments port conducted year period sec security plan requirements include area response recovery protocols prepare respond mitigate recover transportation security incident sec requires development utilization national standard formula prioritizing addressing assessed security risks ports facilities adjacent waterways united_states tested dhs directs secretary use standard require evaluate prioritize mitigation port risks consider resource allocations grant making decisions makes coast_guard maritime security risk assessment model available unclassified version limited basis regulated vessels facilities conduct true risk assessments facilities vessels coast_guard criteria sec directs commandant establish regulation national standards training credentialing law enforcement personnel enforce security zone assist enforcement defines security zone zone established commandant pursuant specified acts vessel carrying especially hazardous cargo vessel enters operates internal waters territorial seas transfers cargo residue port place jurisdiction seas waters requires commandant develop training curriculum allows agreements public private entities test deliver training establishes related training grant title miscellaneous provisions sec authorizes secretary notwithstanding specified provisions issue certificate documentation coastwise endorsement named numbered vessels authorizes secretary notwithstanding specified provisions issue certificate documentation appropriate endorsement employment coastwise trade named numbered vessels current law provides secretary transportation authorization limits authorized activity specified vessel transportation individuals behalf certain tax exempt organizations owner vessel receives compensation allows secretary transportation issue waiver allowing documented vessel registry endorsement foreign flag vessel operations treat aquaculture fish protect aquaculture fish disease infestation health threats notice published federal_register suitable vessel available perform services current law requires vessels certificate documentation endorsement engaging trade 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 removes requirement appointments cadets coast_guard_academy regard sex race color religious beliefs applicant sec permits purse seine fishing vessel fishing exclusively highly migratory species treaty area fishing license issued pursuant treaty fisheries government united_states_of_america transiting treaty area exclusively purpose engage foreign citizens meet manning requirement master december annual safety examination sec directs commandant report 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 current law prohibits individual engaged vessel operating navigable waters state sec authorizes commandant convey federal surplus property real property commonly identified city michigan requires responsibility reasonable necessary costs including real estate transaction environmental documentation costs determined commandant city sec directs secretary prepare mission requirement analysis navigable portions texas international water boundary requires related report sec authorizes commandant notwithstanding law convey fair market value parcel acres real property coast_guard administrative control michigan requires responsibility reasonable necessary costs including real estate transaction environmental documentation costs determined commandant purchaser sec directs secretary request governor texas governor oklahoma enter agreement state shall license operators uninspected passenger vessels operating lake texoma texas oklahoma lieu secretary issuing license specified provisions state plan licensing operators meets certain requirements sec directs secretary submit report congress comprehensive strategy combat illicit flow narcotics weapons bulk cash contraband use submersible semi submersible vessels sec shields owner operator time master mariner individual uses authorizes use force defend vessel united_states piracy liability monetary damages injury death caused force person engaging act piracy force accordance standard rules use force self defense vessels prescribed secretary directs secretary work imo establish agreements promote coordinated action port states deter protect rapidly respond piracy vessels waters jurisdiction nations ensure limitations liability similar established section act requires secretary develop standard rules use force self defense vessels sec amends provisions relating commercial instruments maritime liens substitute references dhs secretary certain current references secretary transportation sec requires coast_guard transfer ownership coast_guard vessel aircraft use educational cultural historical charitable recreational public purposes authorized law declared excess commandant transfer vessel aircraft general_services_administration gsa conveyance sets forth conveyance conditions sec directs commandant determine types numbers vessels utilizing specified portion florida assess adequacy navigational aids portion submit related report congress sec directs commandant determine necessity adequacy existing federal aids navigation michigan submit determination congress allows commandant transfer michigan subject conditions reservations possession lens purpose conserving displaying exhibition facility sec amends federal criminal law specify following maritime penalties addition fine year incarceration current law fine incarceration term years life offense results death involves kidnapping attempt kidnap conduct required aggravated sexual abuse attempt commit abuse attempt kill fine years incarceration offenses resulting bodily injury committed course committing specified offenses including alien smuggling slavery trafficking certain maritime territorial jurisdiction domestic habitual offender assaults transportation inhumane conditions 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 revises definitions subject jurisdiction united united federal criminal code provisions related sanctions failure obstruction boarding providing false information sec directs commandant submit year capital investment plan concurrent president budget submission fiscal year sec limits fy2011 total appropriated funds obligated expended coast_guard fiscal year connection study report required law total appropriated funds obligated expended coast_guard purpose fy2010 directs commandant establish fiscal year rank order priority studies reports conducted completed consistent limitation post list coast_guard public website sec states budgetary effects act purposes statutory pay act compliance shall determined reference latest statement titled budgetary effects paygo legislation act jointly submitted printing congressional_record senate_budget_committees provided statement submitted prior vote passage house acting conference report amendments houses sec defines term public provisions conveyance secretary property known naval reserve pier property portland maine title general provisions sec defines system coating paint surface treatment surface device vessel control prevent attachment unwanted organisms sec defines covered vessel mean vessel foreign naval auxiliary government noncommercial service vessels documented laws authorized operate outer_continental_shelf operating internal waters territorial seas port subtitle implementation convention sec requires covered vessels gross tons engage international voyages entry force international convention ships carry international system certificate issued secretary exempts requirement fixed floating platforms floating storage units floating production storage units authorizes vessels countries party convention comply title requirement appropriate documentation considered acceptable secretary sec requires covered vessels meters length gross tons engaged international voyage exceptions vessels tons carry signed declaration vessel system complies convention sec sets forth process considering additional controls systems sec authorizes secretary epa administrator noaa administrator undertake scientific technical research monitoring promote availability information scientific technical activities undertaken accordance convention marine scientific technological programs objectives effects observed monitoring assessment programs relating systems directs epa administrator provide party convention requests information decisions regulate based information evaluate system subtitle prohibitions enforcement authority sec makes unlawful person violate requirement title sell distribute domestically internationally biocide system containing manufacture use formulate system apply system contains vessel apply system vessel violation convention prohibits hull vessel specified exceptions bearing system contains bears forms barrier underlying system sec authorizes secretary investigate enforce vessel compliance requirements title convention sec authorizes inspections officers employees epa state designated epa administrator subtitle action violation penalties referrals sec subjects person knowingly violates act convention specified criminal civil penalties sec establishes rem liability criminal fines specified civil penalties imposed vessel operated violation convention title regulations prescribed title allows vessel proceeded district court district vessel found sec authorizes refusal revocation clearance required vessel proceed port place united_states foreign place place outside territorial sea vessel subject convention title owner operator person charge liable fine civil penalty specified sections title reasonable cause exists believe vessel owner operator person charge subject fine civil penalty sec permits secretary warn detain dismiss exclude port offshore terminal vessel detected violation convention title regulation prescribed title sec authorizes secretary taking actions required authorized subtitle refer matter government country vessel registry nationality authority vessel operating appropriate action violation convention committed vessel registered nationality country party convention vessel operated authority country party convention sec repeals