# § 8694. Annual report on ship maintenance
**(a)** **Report Required.—** Not later than October 15 of each year, the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report setting forth each of the following:
**(1)** A description of all ship maintenance planned for the fiscal year during which the report is submitted, by hull.
**(2)** The estimated cost of the maintenance described pursuant to paragraph (1).
**(3)** A summary of all ship maintenance conducted by the Secretary during the previous fiscal year.
**(4)** A detailed description of any ship maintenance that was deferred during the previous fiscal year, including specific reasons for the delay or cancellation of any availability.
**(5)** A detailed description of the effect of each of the planned ship maintenance actions that were delayed or cancelled during the previous fiscal year, including—
**(A)** a summary of the effects on the costs and schedule for each delay or cancellation; and
**(B)** the accrued operational and fiscal cost of all the deferments over the fiscal year.
**(b)** **Form of Report.—** Each report submitted under subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form and made publicly available on an appropriate internet website in a searchable format, but may contain a classified annex.
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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title X, § 1016(a), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1895.)