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Coast guard and BSEE update mobile offshore drilling unit responsibilities

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2013

On June 4, 2013, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) announced their execution of a Memorandum of

Congress enacts anti-cargo preference provision in highway bill

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 2 2012

On June 29, 2012, the U.S. Congress completed its work on a multi-year transportation authorization known as the “highway bill” which included at the last instant an anti-cargo preference provision

Maersk protests U.S. maritime administration citizenship requirements

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2012

In a recent tender for ship manager services for three U.S. Government reserve vessels, the U.S. Maritime Administration included a requirement that offerors be qualified U.S. citizens

Coast Guard rejects industry petition to change Jones Act vessel rebuilding regulations

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 20 2012

U.S.-flag vessels eligible for the U.S. coastwise (Jones Act) trade cannot be "rebuilt" outside the United States without losing permanently their Jones Act eligibility. Existing Coast Guard regulations on what constitutes "rebuilt" date from 1996

Coast guard announces draft Maritime Security Program vessel inspection guidance

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 18 2012

The Coast Guard issued a request for comments to be published in the Federal Register on January 19, 2012 regarding its policies and procedures for the inspection of U.S. flag vessels enrolled in the Maritime Security Program

Congress enacts Strategic Petroleum Reserve Jones Act waiver provision

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 22 2011

On November 18, President Obama signed into law an appropriations bill for fiscal year 2012 (which started on October 1, 2011) for the Department of Agriculture and other agencies including the U.S. Maritime Administration

Jones Act strategic petroleum reserve waiver provision advances

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 15 2011

Last night, Congress released conference report language regarding H.R. 2112, the first of the FY12 appropriations "minibus" measures

Bill introduced to exempt America's cup from the Jones Act

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 21 2011

On October 20, Sen

Maritime administration announces October 3 public hearing on cargo preference

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 20 2011

U.S. federal cargo preference laws reserve a portion (which varies by program) of U.S. Government impelled cargoes to qualified U.S.-flag vessels

Federal court knocks down challenge to EPA's nationwide discharge permit

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 25 2011

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exempted incidental vessel discharges in U.S. waters for more than 30 years under the Clean Water Act until 2009