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[CITE: 10USC7361]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                     CHAPTER 637--SALVAGE FACILITIES
 
Sec. 7361. Authority to provide for necessary salvage facilities

    (a) Authority.--The Secretary of the Navy may provide, by contract 
or otherwise, necessary salvage facilities for public and private 
vessels.
    (b) Coordination With Secretary of Transportation.--The Secretary 
shall submit to the Secretary of Transportation for comment each 
proposed contract for salvage facilities that affects the interests of 
the Department of Transportation.
    (c) Limitation.--The Secretary of the Navy may enter into a term 
contract under subsection (a) only if the Secretary determines that 
available commercial salvage facilities are inadequate to meet the 
requirements of national defense.
    (d) Public Notice.--The Secretary may not enter into a contract 
under subsection (a) until the Secretary has provided public notice of 
the intent to enter into such a contract.

(Added Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title X, Sec. 1015, Feb. 10, 1996, 110 
Stat. 424.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 7361, acts Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 455; 
Aug. 6, 1981, Pub. L. 97-31, Sec. 12(3)(D), 95 Stat. 154, authorized 
Secretary of the Navy to provide for necessary salvage facilities for 
public and private vessels, prior to the general amendment of this 
chapter by Pub. L. 104-106.
