---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 5115"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "5115"
heading: "Major grants, contracts, or other transactions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/5115"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Coast Guard Authorizations and Reports to Congress"
  - "Chapter 51 — Reports"
---

# §5115. Major grants, contracts, or other transactions

- (a) **Notification.—**
  - (1) **In general.—** Subject to [subsection (b)](#b), the Commandant shall notify the appropriate committees of Congress and the Coast Guard Office of Congressional and Governmental Affairs not later than 3 full business days in advance of the Coast Guard—
    - (A) making or awarding a grant allocation or grant in excess of $1,000,000;
    - (B) making or awarding a contract, other transaction agreement, or task or delivery order for the Coast Guard on the multiple award contract, or issuing a letter of intent totaling more than $4,000,000;
    - (C) awarding a task or delivery order requiring an obligation of funds in an amount greater than $10,000,000 from multi-year Coast Guard funds;
    - (D) making a sole-source grant award; or
    - (E) announcing publicly the intention to make or award an item described in subparagraph [(A)](#a-1-A), [(B)](#a-1-B), [(C)](#a-1-C), or [(D)](#a-1-D), including a contract covered by the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
  - (2) **Element.—** A notification under this subsection shall include—
    - (A) the amount of the award;
    - (B) the fiscal year for which the funds for the award were appropriated;
    - (C) the type of contract;
    - (D) an identification of the entity awarded the contract, such as the name and location of the entity; and
    - (E) the account from which the funds are to be drawn.
- (b) **Exception.—** If the Commandant determines that compliance with [subsection (a)](#a) would pose a substantial risk to human life, health, or safety, the Commandant—
  - (1) may make an award or issue a letter described in such subsection without the notification required under such subsection; and
  - (2) shall notify the appropriate committees of Congress not later than 5 full business days after such an award is made or letter issued.
- (c) **Applicability.—** [Subsection (a)](#a) shall not apply to funds that are not available for obligation.
- (d) **Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.—** In this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means—
  - (1) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
  - (2) the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–263, div. K, title CXII, § 11262(a), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 4060.)