ENHANCEMENT OF AUTHORITY RELATING TO USE FOR EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES OF VESSELS STRICKEN FROM NAVAL VESSEL REGISTER.

SEC. 1012. ENHANCEMENT OF AUTHORITY RELATING TO USE FOR EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES OF VESSELS STRICKEN FROM NAVAL VESSEL REGISTER.(a) Environmental Remediation.—Paragraph (1) of subsection (b) of section 7306a of title 10, United States Code, is amended—(1) by inserting “and Environmental Remediation of” in the subsection heading after “Stripping”; and(2) by inserting before the period at the end the following: “and such environmental remediation of the vessel as is required for the use of the vessel for experimental purposes”.(b) Sale of Material and Equipment Stripped From Vessel.—Subsection (b) of such section is further amended—(1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3);(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph (2):“(2) Material and equipment stripped from a vessel under paragraph (1) may be sold by the contractor or by a sales agent approved by the Secretary.”; and(3) in paragraph (3), as redesignated by paragraph (1), by striking “scrapping services” and all that follows through the end of such subsection and inserting “services needed for such stripping and for environmental remediation required for the use of the vessel for experimental purposes. Amounts received in excess of amounts needed for reimbursement of those costs shall be deposited into the account from which the stripping and environmental remediation expenses were incurred and shall be available for stripping and environmental remediation of other vessels to be used for experimental purposes.”.(c) Clarification of Covered Experimental Purposes.—Such section is further amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:“(c) Use for Experimental Purposes Defined.—In this section, the term ‘use for experimental purposes’, with respect to a vessel, includes use of the vessel in a Navy sink exercise or for target purposes.”.117 STAT. 1590