Sec. 7211. 7212. * 7229. * CHAPTER 631-SECRETARY OF THE NAVY: Attendance at meetings of technical, professional, or scientific organizations. Employment of outside architects and engineers. * Purchase of fuel. * * * § 7211. Attendance at meetings of technical, professional, or scientific organizations (a) The Secretary of the Navy may authorize— (1) members of the naval service on active duty; (2) civilian officers and employees of the Department of the Navy; (3) members of the Coast Guard when it is operating as a service in the Navy; and (4) members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration serving with the Navy; to attend meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and similar organizations, if the Secretary believes that their attendance will benefit the Department. The personnel may be reimbursed for their expenses at the rates prescribed by law. (b) The Secretary, to the extent he considers proper, may delegate the authority conferred by this section to any person in the Department of the Navy, with or without the authority to make successive redelegations. (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 444; Nov. 2, 1966, P.L. 89-718, § 8(a), 80 Stat. 1117; Dec. 12, 1980, P.L. 96–513, §513(24), 94 Stat. 2932.) $7212. Employment of outside architects and engineers (a) Whenever the Secretary of the Navy believes that the existing facilities of the Department of the Navy are inadequate and he considers it advantageous to national defense, he may employ, by contract or otherwise, without advertising and without reference to sections 305, 3324, and 7204, chapter 51, and subchapters III, IV, and VI of chapter 53 of title 5, architectural or engineering corporations, or firms, or individual architects or engineers, to produce designs, plans, drawings, and specifications for the accomplishment of any naval public works or utilities project or for the construction of any vessel or aircraft, or part thereof. (b) The fee for any service under this section may not exceed 6 percent of the estimated cost, as determined by the Secretary, of the project to which the fee applies. (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 444; Nov. 2, 1966, P.L. 89-718, § 28, 80 Stat. 1119; Oct. 13, 1978, P.L. 95-454, § 703(c)(3), §801(a)(3)(I), 92 Stat. 1217, 1222; Dec. 12, 1980, P.L. 96–513, § 513(25), 94 Stat. 2932.) In buying fuel, the Secretary of the Navy may, in any manner he considers proper, buy the kind of fuel that is best adapted to the purpose for which it is to be used. (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 448.) CHAPTER 633-NAVAL VESSELS 1,2 Classification. Number in service in time of peace. Suspension of construction in case of treaty. Vessels: underage. Sec. 7291. 7292. Naming. 7293. 7294. 7295. 7296. 7297. [7298. 7299. 7299a. 7300. Combatant surface vessels: notice before reduction in number; preserva Contracts: applicability of Walsh-Healey Act. Construction of combatant and escort vessels and assignment of vessel projects. Contracts for nuclear ships: sales of naval shipyard articles and services to private shipyards. [7301 to 7302. Repealed.] 7303. 7304. 7305. 7306. 7306a. 7307. 7308. 7309. 7310. 7311. [7312. 7313. 7314. 7315. Model basin; investigation of hull designs. Examination of vessels; striking of vessels from Naval Vessel Register. Vessels stricken from Naval Vessel Register; captured vessels: transfer by Vessels stricken from Naval Vessel Register: use for experimental pur Chief of Naval Operations: certification required for disposal of combatant vessels. Construction of vessels in foreign shipyards; prohibition. Overhaul, repair, etc. of vessels in foreign shipyards: restrictions. Repair or maintenance of naval vessels: handling of hazardous waste. Ship overhaul work: availability of appropriations for unusual cost over- Overhaul of naval vessels: competition between public and private shipyards. Preservation of Navy shipbuilding capability. §7291. Classification The President may establish, and from time to time modify, as the needs of the service require, a classification of naval vessels. (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 448.) § 7292. Naming (a) Not more than one vessel of the Navy may have the same name. 1 Section 1613(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 (P.L. 101-189) provides: (a) CATEGORY FOR FUNDING.-Any request submitted to Congress for appropriations for ship production engineering necessary to support the procurement of any ship included (at the time the request is submitted) in the five-year shipbuilding and conversion plan of the Navy shall be set forth in the Shipbuilding and Conversion account of the Navy (rather than in research and development accounts). 2 For a provision requiring the consideration of vessel location as a factor in the award of layberth contracts for sealift vessels, see section 375 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 (P.L. 102-484), set forth on page 449. |