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Washington Watch

Once Implemented, Vessel Incidental Discharge

Act Will Usher in New Era of Simpli? ed, Uniform

Management Requirements for Commercial Vessels.

By Jeffrey H. Lewis, Cozen O’Connor

With everything going on other maritime interests to review the proposal carefully and around the maritime industry these days—from a Presi- provide the Service with thorough, constructive comments.

dential Executive Order to Make U.S. Maritime Great It also is of critical importance for U.S. maritime inter-

Again, to bipartisan legislation in Congress to boost our ests to remind the Department of Homeland Security and shipyards and merchant marine, to the import tariff roll- the Trump Administration more broadly that VIDA was ercoaster ride we’re all on—it’s easy to forget some other and is deregulatory in nature. It is a bipartisan, bicameral important U.S. maritime policy initiatives whose bene