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Legislative Update

On the heels of the late-August California state govern- ment action increasing the minimum financial responsibility for spills to $700 million, on September 5, the National

Research Council (NRC) released a study that analyzed marine pollution regulations and how the enforcement of legislative standards can be implemented. Among its recommendations, the NRC said that the Maritime Admin- istration should develop a research and development pro- gram that examines the needs of a variety of large vessels in the area of on board qarbaqe treatment equipment. The report also said that efforts to control ocean dumping have been hampered by the fact that no national plan for managing vessel waste exists, and because the oversight duties are dispersed amona numerous federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the

National Marine Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA), and the U.S.

Coast Guard (USCG). This echoes a sentiment expressed in a U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) report issued in the second quarter of 1995, commissioned by the Senate

Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies

Committee on Appropriations, which recommended that the Secretary of Transportation direct the USCG Comman- dant to work with the Administrator of the Animal and Plant

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to explore "areas of mutual interest and ways to improve cooperation between the U.S Coast Guard and APHIS on enforcing MARPOL V."

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Alden Electronics Wins Navy Contract

Alden Electronics, Inc. was awarded a con- tract, worth more than $500,000, by the U.S.

Naval Air Warfare Center's Aircraft Division for 820 units of the company's SATFIND-406 Sur- vival Emergency Position Indicating Radio Bea- cons (EPIRBs). The units, classified as Category 2 units, are manually deployable and will be installed on lifeboats. Delivery is scheduled to take place during the next few quarters. Alden also manufactures a Category 1 unit, which is manually deployable, and was recently chosen by the National Marine Electronics Association as being the best in its category.

Alden manufactures and distributes marine electronics, specializing in weather, safety, and communication products and services.

For more information on Alden Electronics

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Newport News Cuts Steel For First

Double Eagle Tanker

On September 20, Newport News Shipbuild- ing (NNS) cut the first piece of steel for the first

Double Eagle product tanker the yard will build for Eletson Holdings of Piraeus, Greece. The yard is building four 46,000-ton Double Eagle product tankers for the Greek company. As widely publicized upon the signing of the con- tract, these vessels will be the first commercial ships to be constructed by an American yard for an international customer since the late 1950s.

The steel for the first ship was cut by a newly- installed robotic machine, part of NNS's World-

Class Shipbuilder Project, a $68 million capital investment program designed to improve and automate processes for both commercial and military shipbuilding. The automated steel cut- ting was activated by Erric Kertsikoff and

Gregory Hadjieleftheriadis, vice presidents of Eletson Holdings. Members of the Virginia delegation were also present, including Senator

John Warner, Senator Charles Robb, and

CongressmenHerb Bateman andBobby Scott.

For more information on Newport News Shipbuilding

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