Authorizes appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 1980. Sets forth the amount of funds allocated for: (1) operation and maintenance expenses; (2) acquisition, construction, rebuilding, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore facilities, vessels, and aircraft, including equipment related thereto; (3) alteration or removal of bridges over navigable waters of the United States, constituting obstructions to navigation; and (4) research, development, test, and evaluation.
Permits the Coast Guard to have an end-of-year strength for active duty personnel of 39,578, provided that such ceiling does not include members of the Ready Reserve called to active duty.
Specifies the average military training student loads for the Coast Guard as follows: (1) recruit and special training: 3,940 students; (2) flight training: 110 students; (3) professional training in military and civilian institutions: 438 students; and (4) officer acquisitions: 940 students.
Increases the ceiling on commissioned officers to 6,000.
Raises the statutory limitation on the annual pay of lighthouse keepers to $15,000.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Reported to House from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries with amendment, H. Rept. 96-118.
Reported to House from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries with amendment, H. Rept. 96-118.
Measure called up by special rule in House.
Measure considered in House.
Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, amended.
Measure passed House, amended.
Measure laid on table in House, S. 709 passed in lieu.
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