MODIFICATION OF RESTRICTION ON REPAIR OF CERTAIN VESSELS THE HOMEPORT OF WHICH IS PLANNED FOR REASSIGNMENT.

SEC. 367. MODIFICATION OF RESTRICTION ON REPAIR OF CERTAIN VESSELS THE HOMEPORT OF WHICH IS PLANNED FOR REASSIGNMENT. Subsection (b) of section 7310 of title 10, United States Code, as inserted by section 824(b), is amended to read as follows: “(b) Vessel Changing Homeports.—(1) In the case of a naval vessel the homeport of which is not in the United States (or a territory of the United States), the Secretary of the Navy may not during the 15-month period preceding the planned reassignment of the vessel to a homeport in the United States (or a territory of the United States) begin any work for the overhaul, repair, or maintenance of the vessel that is scheduled to be for a period of more than six months. “(2) In the case of a naval vessel the homeport of which is in the United States (or a territory of the United States), the Secretary of the Navy shall during the 15-month period preceding the planned reassignment of the vessel to a homeport not in the 107 STAT. 1633United States (or a territory of the United States) perform in the United States (or a territory of the United States) any work for the overhaul, repair, or maintenance of the vessel that is scheduled— “(A) to begin during the 15-month period; and “(B) to be for a period of more than six months.”