# Maintenance and Repair Reimbursement Pilot Program
**AGENCY:**
Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation.
**ACTION:**
Notice of application deadline.
**SUMMARY:**
The Maritime Administration is hereby giving notice that the closing date for filing applications to enroll in the Maintenance and Repair Reimbursement Pilot Program is August 1, 2007.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Jean E. McKeever, Associate Administrator for Business and Workforce Development, Maritime Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington, DC 20590; phone: (202) 366-5737; fax: (202) 366-3511; or e-mail *[email protected]* .
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
Section 3517 of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2007 (Pub. L. 109-163) requires a person who is awarded a Maritime Security Program (“MSP”) agreement to also enter into an agreement with the Maritime Administration to perform maintenance and repair (“M&R”) work in United States shipyards as a condition of the MSP award. The Maritime Administration's M&R regulations do not apply the M&R condition to contractors who have already been awarded an M&R agreement. Thus, the Maritime Administration's M&R regulations make the M&R obligation mandatory on new awardees, including transferees, of MSP agreements, and voluntary for existing MSP contractors.
The John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Pub. L. 109-364) grants a priority, during times of insufficient appropriations, in allocation of MSP payments to MSP contractors that have entered into M&R agreements. The M&R regulations were published in the *Federal Register* on February 6, 2007 (72 FR 5342-01), but did not specify a time period for submitting applications. In order to administer the priority provisions of Public Law 109-364, we need to close the application period.
(Authority: 49 CFR 1.66)
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: June 22, 2007.
Daron T. Threet,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.