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REGULATORY REVIEW

Credit: Petty Of? cer 3rd Class Andrea Anderson

Ensign Patricia Carrow, a Coast Guard vessel inspector, examines a passenger vessel’s operational, mechanical, and safety systems during an annual inspection in Long Beach, Calif. on Dec. 7, 2016. The Coast Guard inspects every operating passenger vessel for safety and regulation standards annually.

stay on the job for 10 years after graduating. “This will an incentive for expansion. M-M’s suggestion: end that RSP help with recruitment and retention,” M-M writes. Some fee structure and make up revenues from other increasing other major M-M concerns include: tax payments. This is just one example of problematic CPB • Ad Valorem tax – repairs made (Vessel Repair Statute rules impacting maritime businesses. Another M-M con- at 19 USC 1466) in foreign ports are hit with a 50% duty cern is CBP