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LEGISLATIVE WATCH

For inland vessel operators engaged EPA and individual states. more than a dozen individual states – in interstate commerce, decisions As the bill winds its way through for more than a decade. But, this time, about critical equipment – like ballast the halls of congress, it is also true that says Carpenter, it is different. water treatment, for example – can’t be vessel operators and their advocates “There has been an increasingly made if they don’t know if those in- have been pushing for a uni