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[CITE: 10USC2631a]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
                       CHAPTER 157--TRANSPORTATION
 
Sec. 2631a. Contingency planning: sealift and related intermodal 
        transportation requirements
        
    (a) Consideration of Private Capabilities.--The Secretary of Defense 
shall ensure that all studies and reports of the Department of Defense, 
and all actions taken in the Department of Defense, concerning sealift 
and related intermodal transportation requirements take into 
consideration the full range of the transportation and distribution 
capabilities that are available from operators of privately owned United 
States flag merchant vessels.
    (b) Private Capacities Presentations.--The Secretary shall afford 
each operator of a vessel referred to in subsection (a), not less often 
than annually, an opportunity to present to the Department of Defense 
information on its port-to-port and intermodal transportation 
capacities.

(Added Pub. L. 103-160, div. A, title XI, Sec. 1173(a), Nov. 30, 1993, 
107 Stat. 1767.)
