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Update on North American Emission Control Area enforcement and fuel availability guidance
- Blank Rome LLP
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- USA
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- July 17 2012
Enforcement of the North American Emission Control Area ("ECA") begins August 1, 2012
Just when you thought you fully understood MARPOL Annex V garbage regulations
- Blank Rome LLP
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- Global, USA
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- November 14 2012
For years, the focus with regard to MARPOL Annex V has been the continued expansion of special areas and stricter enforcement
MARPOL’s “special area” garbage discharge restrictions extended to the Wider Caribbean Region
- Blank Rome LLP
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- USA
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- April 28 2011
On April 7, 2011, the U.S. Coast Guard announced in a Federal Register Notice that May 1, 2011 will be the date on which vessels operating within the "special area" known as the Wider Caribbean Region ("WCR") will be subject to more stringent garbage discharge requirements under MARPOL Annex V, Regulation 5
EPA proposes draft technical guidance for determining quantities of PCBS in vessels subject to Marad's foreign transfer requirements
- Blank Rome LLP
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- USA
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- February 8 2013
New Development The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) is seeking comments on draft guidance intended to assist shipowners in
Ninth Circuit confirms California’s jurisdiction over vessel fuel standards out to 24 miles
- Blank Rome LLP
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- USA
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- April 13 2011
On March 28, 2011 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected an appeal by the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association ("PMSA"), a mutual benefit corporation comprised of owners and operators of U.S. and foreign-flag vessels, in which it sought to prevent the state of California from expanding its enforcement of vessel fuel standards to 24 miles, well beyond the state's traditional 3-mile territorial limit
Coast Guard formally agrees to assist EPA in the detection and reporting of deficiencies under EPA’s vessel general permit program
- Blank Rome LLP
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- USA
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- February 21 2011
On February 11, 2011, the Coast Guard and Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") entered into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") outlining the steps the agencies will take to better coordinate efforts to implement and enforce the requirements of EPA's Vessel General Permit for Discharges Incidental to the Normal Operation of Vessels ("VGP"), which became effective on February 6, 2009
Coast Guard seeks comments regarding OPA 90 claims procedures
- Blank Rome LLP
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- USA
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- November 15 2011
The Coast Guard issued a Notice of Inquiry ("NOI") on November 1, 2011 inviting the public to comment on the current Oil Pollution Act of 1990 ("OPA 90") claims procedures and whether certain pre-OPA 90 regulations should be removed
Only 45 days left&x2014;have you commented on EPA&x2019;s draft vessel general permit?
- Blank Rome LLP
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- USA
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- January 6 2012
On December 8, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published two draft Vessel General Permits (“VGPs”) that would authorize discharges incidental to the normal operation of commercial vesselsone to replace the existing VGP currently in force (“2008 VGP”) and one that would apply to small vessels (“SVGP”), which are currently exempt from the 2008 VGP
Coast Guard issues final rule on ballast water management
- Blank Rome LLP
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- USA
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- April 24 2012
On March 23, 2012, the Coast Guard issued a long awaited Final Rule, Standards for Living Organisms in Ships’ Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters, amending the existing ballast water management (“BWM”) regulations and creating a standard for the allowable concentration of living organisms in ballast water discharged in U.S. waters consistent with the International Maritime Organization’s International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments (“BWM Convention”
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- Jurisdiction - USA
- Workarea - Environment
- Workarea - Shipping & Transport
- Author - Jonathan K. Waldron