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Market Reports • Inland channels. The budget proposes $1.2 billion for the

USACE's general construction account, $257 million of which would come from the not-yet-enacted HSUF for port improvement construction. The budget requests $1.8 billion requests for the USACE's Operation and Mainte- nance account, with $693 million of that figure coming from the HSUF.

For the USCG, the President requested $4.2 billion for

FY 2000, as compared to a $4.1 billion request in FY 99.

Surprisingly, this year's budget proposed the reintroduc- tion of the same navigational assistance user fee proposed and rejected by Congress last year. The Administration's proposal would institute new USCG and NOAA user taxes for federal navigation safety services, such as aids to navi- gation and VTS systems. The USCG fee, to be collected from commercial cargo carriers, is projected to recover $41 million in FY 2000 and $165 million annually when fully implemented.

However, Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), chair- woman of the Senate Oceans and Fisheries Subcommittee, told USCG Commandant James Loy the Administration's proposal to impose new taxes on commercial vessel oper- ators will not be considered by Congress. Chairwoman

Snowe stated the Administration is clearly violating the spirit of the law by including $41 million in user fees for

FY 00 in the USCG budget.

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