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Proposed Rule: Standards for Living Organisms in Ballast Water Discharged in the US |
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Federal Register, August 28, 2009: The Coast Guard has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to amend its regulations on ballast water management by establishing standards for the allowable concentration of living organisms in ships’ ballast water discharged in U.S. waters.
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Interim Rule: CPI Adjustments of OPA 90 Liability for Vessels and Deepwater Ports |
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The Federal Register of July 1, 2009, announced an Interim Rule increasing the limitations on liability for Vessels and Deepwater Ports under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. |
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Mariners increasingly find themselves overwhelmed by regulations from a variety of sources. We will try to alert you here to significant changes (proposed and enacted) to maritime laws, paying particular attention to changes in licensing requirements, examination procedures and documentation requirements.
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Radar Observer Endorsement |
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Effective October 14, 2008, the USCG will no longer endorse the back of the license with the mariner's renewed Radar Endorsement.
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TWIC Deadline "Realigned" -- New Deadline 4/15/09 |
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May 2, 2008: The Department of Homeland Security announced this week a "realignment" of the final  compliance date for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential" (TWIC) progam. The original deadline had been September 25, 2008. That date has been extended seven months to April 15, 2009.
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New Procedures to reduce Credential Processing Time |
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From "The Wave: National Maritime Center Newsletter"
New Procedures to Reduce Credential Processing Time
The National Maritime Center . . . will implement new procedures on April 7, 2008 to encourage mariners to respond within 90 days to requests for additional information needed to complete processing of their merchant mariner credential. Currently 25,949 credential requests are in process nationwide. More than 33% or 8,542 of these credentials are missing critical information needed to complete an evaluation of the application. In all cases, letters have been sent to the mariners asking them to submit information so the Coast Guard can continue processing their application.
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Collisions, groundings, piracy, rescues -- bad things, inexplicable things and, as in the freeing of Capt. Richard Phillips, very good things happen. Here is our record of such events as they come to our attention. Read More 
The National Maritime Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia, is the US Coast Guard's processing center for all mariner licensing and credential transactions. The website provides information for new mariners, continuing mariners, returning mariners -- license and STCW requirements, applications, policy and guidance. It also enables the mariner to check on the status of his or her pending application. Read More
Mariners increasingly find themselves beset by regulations from a variety of sources. We will try to alert you here to significant changes (proposed and enacted) to maritime laws, affecting licensing requirements, examination procedures and documentation requirements as found in the Federal Register, USCG Navigation and Inspection Circulars (NVICs), Policy and Guidance Statements. Read More
Over the last several years there have been significant changes in the licensing requirements for operators of towing vessels. It used to be that licenses authorizing operation on inspected vessels would satisfy the requirements for most towing vessels of lesser or equal tonnage. This is no longer the case. There are now several ways to become an officer on a towing vessel, ranging from the entry level Apprentice Steersman to service-in-training while holding a previously issued license. Read More