10 U.S.C. § 8686 — Support for transfers of decommissioned vessels and shipboard equipment

(a) Authority To Provide Assistance — The Secretary of the Navy may help an entity described in (b) with a transfer of a vessel or shipboard equipment happening under section 2572, 8676, 8677, or 8765, or any other authority.

(b) Covered Vessels and Equipment — This authority applies: (1) to a decommissioned vessel that (A) the Navy owns and maintains, that sits at a Navy facility, and isn't in active use; and (B) is being transferred to whoever the Secretary or a law designates to receive it; and (2) to any shipboard equipment that (A) is on a vessel described in (1)(A); and (B) is being transferred to whoever is designated to receive it.

(c) Reimbursement — The Secretary may require whoever gets the assistance to reimburse the Navy for what the Navy spent providing it.

(d) Deposit of Funds Received — Money received as reimbursement in a fiscal year is credited to that year's operation-and-maintenance appropriation for the Navy office that manages inactive ships, merged with that office's other funds, and used for the same purposes and time period as the funds it's merged with.