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10 U.S.C. § 2218

National Defense Sealift Fund

United States · Title 10 — ARMED FORCES · Status: effective

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10 U.S.C. § 2218, National Defense Sealift Fund, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/433799
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Funds in the National Defense Sealift Fund shall be available for obligation and expenditure only for the following purposes: There shall be deposited in the Fund the following: All funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for— Notwithstanding the limitations under subsection (c)(1)(D) and paragraph (1), the Secretary of Defense may, as part of a program to recapitalize the Ready Reserve Force component of the national defense reserve fleet and the Military Sealift Command surge fleet, purchase any used vessel, regardless of where such vessel was constructed if such vessel— The Secretary may not use the authority under this paragraph to procure more than four foreign constructed vessels unless the Secretary submits to Congress, by not later than the second week of February of the fiscal year during which the Secretary plans to use such authority, a certification that— Not later than 30 days before the purchase of any vessel using the authority under this paragraph, the Secretary, in consultation with the Maritime Administrator, shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report that contains each of the following with respect to such purchase: Certification that— Budget requests submitted to Congress for the National Defense Sealift Fund shall separately identify— The head of an agency may make advance payments to the contractor under a contract under paragraph (1) in a lump sum, in annual payments, or in a combination thereof for costs associated with the installation and maintenance of the defense features on a vessel covered by the contract, as follows: Each contract entered into under this subsection shall— In this section: The term “Department of Defense sealift vessel” means any ship owned, operated, controlled, or chartered by the Department of Defense that is any of the following: The term “national defense sealift vessel” means—

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