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on the front line of efforts to streamline rules on discharges is architect will tell you that ship operators ought to be planning the American Great Lakes Ports Association (ALGPA), which now for the big event, something which can take up to six said in a year-end 2016 update, “The resulting regulatory chaos months to put all the pieces into place.

threatens the viability of interstate and international maritime And yet, talk often seems to come back to the topic of how commerce.” ALGPA has fought hard for a new piece of law- one might obtain or apply for an extension from the U.S. making, the C Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (C VIDA), Coast Guard. Consensus at the show was that, looking at the which “…would have simpli