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Nagle Toohey St. Lawrence Seaway

AAPA’s Nagle Applauds for LNG Fuel Ready Vessels to sup- increase to the barge diesel fuel user

FY’15 Ports Support port members and clients in preparing fee. The user fee – currently 20-cents-

In reviewing the proposed $1.01 newbuildings for future conversion to per-gallon of fuel used while operat- trillion Consolidated and Further gas propulsion. The Guide formal- ing on the inland system –will be

Continuing Appropriations Act of izes the process for clients who wish increased to 29-cents-per-gallon, ef- 2015 hammered out in Congress last to plan for conversion to LNG fuel at fective April 1, 2015. Deposited into month, the American Association of a future date by providing a detailed the Inland Waterways Trust Fund

Port Authorities (AAPA) noted signi? - review and approval and an associated (IWTF), this amount is matched by cant increases for the U.S. Army Corps class notation. The Guide includes a General Treasury Funds and is dedi- of Engineers’ Harbor Maintenance Tax basic level of Concept Design Approv- cated to new construction and major (HMT) operations and maintenance al, with a design review for approval rehabilitation of the inland system. (O&M) activities and construction in principle (AIP), and two optional The 9-cent-increase will add around budgets, and for the Environmen- levels for general design approval and $80 million annually to the IWTF. tal Protection Agency’s Diesel Emis- installed equipment, which constitute It is supported by those who pay it sions Reduction Act (DERA) grants a complete review and survey of the – just 300 commercial operators – program. While the Department of system to be installed on the ship. The while the entire nation bene? ts, from

Transportation’s TIGER (Transporta- ? rst optional level is a General Design hydropower, municipal water supply, tion Infrastructure Generating Eco- Review that allows an owner to ap- recreational boating and ? shing, ? ood nomic Recovery) grants program will proach a shipyard with a reviewed de- control, national security, and water- drop to $500 million compared with sign package for the gas-fueled system front property development. “Water- ? scal 2014’s $600 million mark, fund- at the time of conversion. ways Council is grateful for the House ing is still signi? cantly higher than the The second optional level is De- and Senate passage of the increase to

House-proposed mark of $100 mil- tail Design Approval and Installation the barge industry’s fuel user fee. Ad- lion. With regard to the Corps’ HMT which constitutes a complete design ditional money ? owing to priority

O&M budget, AAPA recognizes review and survey of a system that will navigation projects could result in ear-

WRRDA’s June 2014 enactment came be installed on the LNG ready ship in lier completion and delivery of more in the midst of the ongoing appropria- accordance with the ABS Guide for than $82 billion in related economic tions process, “but we’re pleased that Propulsion and Auxiliary Systems for activity for the nation over 20 years,”

Congress plans to signi? cantly increase Gas Fueled Ships. said Michael J. Toohey, President/ funding above the $915 million re- CEO of Waterways Council, Inc. quested by the Administration,” said WCI Praises Increase to

AAPA President and CEO Kurt Nagle. Barge Diesel Fuel User Fee DNV GL Prepares for Low

Waterways Council, Inc. (WCI) Sulphur Operation

ABS Releases Guide for and its members and stakeholders last In the new publication, “Sulphur

LNG Fuel Ready Vessels month applauded the Senate’s pas- Limits 2015 — Guidelines to Ensure

ABS has published the ABS Guide sage, by a vote of 76 to16, of a 9-cent Compliance,” DNV GL describes

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