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- Congress Gets It Done with WRRDA Marine News, Jul 2014 #20
On May 22, the Water Resources Reform Development Act (WRRDA) of 2014, containing major recommendations of the Capital Development Plan (CDP), was passed by a vote 91-7 in the Senate. As MarineNews was going to press, President Obama finally signed the bill into law. The conference agreement had passed the House on May 20 by an overwhelming 412-4 vote.
The bill contains four key elements of the Capital Development Plan that were included in the House WAVE 4 (H.R. 1149) and Senate RIVER Act (S. 407) bills, both strongly supported by WCI:- Olmsted Federalization: permanent cost-sharing for the remaining cost of the Olmsted project will be 85% General Fund, 15% Inland Waterways Trust Fund, freeing up approximately $105 million per year for funding other Trust Fund priority projects with Olmsted funded at $150 million per year.
- Definition of Major Rehabilitation Project Eligible for Inland Waterways Trust Fund: increased from current law level of $14 million to $20 million and adjusted annually for inflation.
- Prioritization of Projects: based upon risk of failure and economic benefit to the Nation.
- Project Delivery Process Reforms: based upon CDP-recommended reforms to better achieve on-time and on-budget performance.
The bill also increases annual target appropriations levels for spending of funds from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF), with full use of HMTF funds by 2025. Implementation of many provisions in WRRDA will not happen immediately, as the Corps and the Secretary of the Army first must develop and provide guidance with respect to the provisions before they can be implemented.
Of WRRDA’s passage, WCI Chairman Matt Woodruff said, “The nation’s towboat operators, shippers, and labor, port, conservation and agriculture stakeholder members of WCI applauded today’s passage of WRRDA. This bill – and, we hope, law – will create American jobs, increase U.S. exports, keep our nation competitive in world markets, and enhance the reliability of the nation’s waterways transportation mode and critical supply chain link. Today, Congress got it done and voted to keep America moving!”
There are many champions whose leadership led to a strong WRRDA outcome. Chief among them are Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer and Ranking Member David Vitter, and House T&I Committee Chairman Bill Shuster, Vice Chairman Jimmy Duncan, and Ranking Member Nick Rahall; House Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Bob Gibbs and Ranking Member Tim Bishop; Rep. Ed Whitfield and Rep. Daniel Lipinski and the 31 co-sponsors of WAVE 4: Waterways are Vital for the Economy, Energy, Efficiency, and Environment Act (H.R. 1149); and Senators Bob Casey, Lamar Alexander, Mary Landrieu, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Harkin, and Al Franken for authoring The RIVER Act: Reinvesting in Vital Economic Rivers and Waterways Act (S. 407).
Last January, at the State of the Union address, President Obama said, “We’ll need Congress to protect more than three million jobs by finishing transportation and waterways bills this summer.”
On WRRDA, Congress got it done and got it done right.
(As published in the July 2014 edition of Marine News - http://magazines.marinelink.com/Magazines/MaritimeNews)
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- Littoral Combat Ship Leads the Charge Maritime Reporter, Jun 2003 #54
dire need of increasing its number of newbuilds now, with the cumulative fleet age and size shrinking appreciably every year. Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), recently introduced legislation designed to increase the number of naval ships. The Landrieu bill makes it the policy of the United
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- WRDA to the Wise Marine News, Jun 2013 #14
of the RIVER (Reinvesting In Vital Economic Rivers and Waterways) Act -- S. 407 -- introduced by Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), and co-sponsored by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS). They
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- Interview: Matthew Paxton, President, Shipbuilders Council Of America Maritime Reporter, Nov 2014 #58
Stevens, Congressmen Ike Skelton and Jim Oberstar, there was a void that needed to be filled. Many Members have stepped up, including members like Sen. Mary Landrieu, who hold important assignments such as chair of the Energy and Natural Resource Committee and on the Appropriations Committee. On the House side
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- How Difficult is it to Obtain a Jones Act Waiver? Marine News, Nov 2014 #24
to obtain such waivers. To set the stage, in one of her first press conferences after taking the chairmanship of the Senate Energy Committee, Senator Mary Landrieu exclaimed that “Waiving the Jones Act literally hands over work to foreign shippers.” The fact that Senator Landrieu’s comments were not directed
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- Offshore Insights from OMSA's Ben Billings Marine News, Mar 2014 #12
Act continues. Fortunately, Billings knows his way around the Hill. Prior to joining OMSA, Billings worked in the United States Senate for Senator Mary Landrieu and the Senate Homeland Security Committee, where he held various positions including Senior Policy Advisor, Legislative Director, and Staff Director
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- US Dredging Needs Growth as Army Corps’ Budget Shrinks Marine News, Jun 2014 #34
during a Senate hearing, held in late March on the Corps’ 2015 funding requests, that the agency wasn’t advocating for more dredging money. Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La, said the 2015 budget left the agency without enough funds to dredge the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and the Port
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 41, at dif- ferent depth levels. Building upon this foundation, EvoLogics has undertaken signi? cant enhancements to the Quadroin platform, with a pri- mary focus on expanding its instrument payload capacity and underwater AI computations. This evolution led to a compre- hensive redesign of the vehicle’s
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 53.com Phone: (920) 738-5432 Manufactured in the USA All in the Family The Pastrana family is a maritime family top to bottom, from Christopher and Mary Ann to their two sons and two sons-in-law. “For continuity and succession planning, we asked our children if they are interested to take this on,”
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 52Kong mogul] Sir Gordon Wu came to our of? ce, and we also went to his of? ce in Hong Kong; he was interested to get into this business. He told me: ‘Mary Ann, as long as there's water, you have business. The name of the game is ef? ciency.’ So I guess the challenge for us is ? nding that ef? ciency
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 51did not mean quitting, and the decision was made to change its course. “We will give our country what it needs – safe maritime transportation,” said Mary Ann. So in 2010 the company switched gears and decided to take the plunge and invest in new, modern tonnage. Looking at the tra- ditional ferry ?
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 50Ferries Company is best build its country’s national economy. And the Pastrana family known by the brand FastCat, connecting select are ‘all in’ – from Mary Ann and her husband Christopher; Philippine Islands via modern catamaran RoPax to their two sons who are learning the maritime trade in the A ferries
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 31to the day that we have not just a groundbreaking, but a ribbon cutting when we’ll be able to achieve the full bene? ts of this system,” Stephaich said. Mary Ann Bucci, executive direc- tor at the Port of Pittsburgh, de- scribed the locks as the river gateway for commerce moving in and out of the city.
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 30, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Mitch Landrieu, Senior Advisor to the President and White House for Infrastructure; Mary Ann Bucci, the executive director of the Port of Pittsburgh Commission; and Mark Gentile, the president of Trumbull Corps; participate in a groundbreaking
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August 2023 - Marine News page: 36wind industry. as more offshore wind projects advance to development and From left to right: Lasse Petterson, CEO of Great Lakes Dredge and Dock; Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa.; President Joe Biden; and Steinar Nerbovik, CEO of Philadelphia Shipyard. Philly Shipyar
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February 2023 - Marine News page: 41Authority (EUPTA), located in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The 92-foot U.S.-made steel ferry, Neebish Island III, will operate year-round on the St. Mary’s River in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula be- tween Barbeau, Mich., and Neebish Island. The vesselwas designed by Seacraft Design, LLC of Sturgeon Bay
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November 2022 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 56paper for heart vessels. The British, Atlantic, passenger collectors. Tom’s booth at the annual surgeons. Where a cutaway view of the ship Queen Mary was one. I was fasci- Paci? c Marine Expo in Seattle is an boat’s pro? le isn’t enough, additional nated to see, not only the luxury salons, ever-popula
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November 2022 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 37in the concept gives the major greener With Siemens turbines providing pri- to CCS. The CCS-power-generation hydrocarbon production and, if desired, mary gas-? red power, or heat and power, part is a work in progress.” Moreover, upstream and downstream gas and elec- Ocean GeoLoop’s CCS tech may also
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November 2022 - Marine News page: 70Vessels USACE Crane Barge Southwest Shipyard in Houston for a new crane barge on the St. Marys River. “The new crane barge will perform critical lock and hy- dropower facility maintenance at the Soo Project Of? ce (Soo Locks),” said Justin Proulx, Chief of the St. Marys River Section. “Additionally
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September 2022 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 67paired with a strong back self-buoyant lander to ? oat back to the surface. That’s the pri- to substantially increase the load rating from 12,000-lbs to mary task of a release. multiples higher. Typical lander anchor weights, however, are Releases serve other secondary purposes. They are used to under 100-lbs
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June 2022 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 12? led suit to challenge to fund responses to oil spills and threatened spills. The pri- the constitutionality of the tax and for a refund of the funds it mary expenditures of the fund are state access for removal paid to the IRS. The trial court ruled in Tra? gura’s favor, ? nding actions, payments to
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May 2022 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 26FUTURE FUELS we expect it to increase very signi? cantly.” mary or dual companion fuel. The sum of ships able to use LNG, LPG or methanol is Shell LNG alone, with 50 LNG carriers chartered, has 700 anyone’s guess, as their fuel type when built is unknown and ship-to-shp bunkering operations available
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May 2022 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20Depart- ment of Commerce is hosting Discover Global Markets: The Blue Economy, in Providence, R.I., Sept. 20-22, 2022. Inter- national Trade Specialist Mary- anne Burke (pictured right) leads the Marine Technology Team of the International Trade Administration (ITA). Mary- anne is part of ITA’s U.S. Com- merci
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March 2022 - Marine News page: 19Column Infrastructure the availability of such funding. The IIJA offers several op- program from which small ports might receive funding is portunities for ports to obtain assistance for infrastructure the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improve- projects, but the PIDP remains the principal
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January 2022 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 58was his parents Sally and Terri, his younger Tahiti race. Overcoming numerous tech- to enable scienti? c observations of the brother Doug, sister-in-law Mary, nieces nical dif? culties, they ? nished ? rst. Rag- human-in? uenced effects on the oceans and nephew Britt, Becca and Charlie, time’s reputation
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January 2022 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 47Figure 7. The author, Kevin Hardy, lifts the single sphere hadal lander, DOV Mary Carol, with one hand onto the ship after a test dive off San Diego in 2002. DOV Mary Carol later dove both the Puerto Rico Trench and Aleutian Trench. was to leave the 17” OD the same, but make the ID smaller, creating
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December 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43ar- (center) with the eas (MPAs), address marine plastic pollution, com- author (left) and his bat coral disease, and advance ocean science and wife Mary (right) at technology. Walter’s legacy with Scripps also made Scripps in 2018. notable contributions to the 2019 White House Sum- mit on Ocean Science
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November 2021 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 8? CALL FOR THE USNS WALTER MUNK By Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, Ph.D., U.S. Navy (retired) Walter Munk (center) with the author (left) and his wife Mary (right) at Scripps in 2018 Photo courtesy the Author n the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, Con- highest levels of the U.S. Government. At every
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October 2021 - Marine News page: 15Notable commercial marine wins in North America this plans to secure the commitment in its business. year have included new boats for the Virginia and Mary- The company continues to invest in its core products to land pilot associations, including IPS and inboard con? gu- improve ef? ciency, reduce fuel
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September 2021 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 60planet’s natural that of the planet itself—through a biological phenomenon systems. How does each part of the global carbon cycle work known as marine primary productivity. Through this pro- and how may it be impacted by the changing climate? What cess, tiny organisms, like phytoplankton, use photosynthesis
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September 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 39build slots and cost. This cargo ferry will be designed for a 12-knot service speed, allowing for signi? cantly faster journey times between St. Mary’s and the off-islands, a 50% increase in cargo capacity, and will have a reduced fuel consumption of 55%. “We worked with the Isles of Scilly in a