[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 74 (Monday, April 19, 1999)] [Notices] [Pages 19139-19140] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 99-9732] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers Notice of Availability of the ``Annual Report to Congress on the Status of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for Fiscal Year 1997'' AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. ACTION: Notice of availability. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the general public of the availability of the ``Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 1997.'' Single copies of the report may be obtained free of charge. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. James D. Hilton, Operations Division, Office of the Chief of Engineers at (202) 761-8830 or fax (202) 761-1685. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Harbor Maintenance Fee was authorized under Sections 1401 and 1402 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99-662. This law imposed a 0.04 percent fee on the value of commercial cargo loaded (exports and domestic cargo) or unloaded (imports) at ports which have had Federal expenditures made on their behalf by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1977. Section 11214 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, Pub. L. 101-580, increased the Harbor Maintenance Fee to 0.125 percent, which went into effect on January 1, 1991. Harbor maintenance Trust Fund monies are used to pay up to 100 percent of the Corps eligible Operations and Maintenance expenditures for the maintenance of commercial harbors and channels. Section 201 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-303, expanded the use of Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund monies to pay Federal expenditures for construction of dredged material disposal facilities necessay for the operation and maintenance of any harbor or inland harbor; dredging and disposing of contaminated sediments that are in or that affect the maintenance of Federal navigation channels; mitigating for impacts resulting from Federal navigation operation and maintenance activities; and operating and maintaining dredged material disposal facilities. Section 330 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1992, Pub. L. 102-580, requires that the President provide an Annual Report to Congress on the Status of the Trust Fund. The release of this report is in compliance with this legislation. [[Page 19140]] Dated: April 8, 1999. Eric R. Potts, Colonel, Corps of Engineers, Executive Director of Civil Works. [FR Doc. 99-9732 Filed 4-16-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3710-08-P