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20 june 2015 FOGHORN LEGISLATIVEReport By Ed Welch PVA Legislative Director PVA Is Working Hard for Relief from One-Size-Fits-All Survival Craft Law T h e P a s s e n g e r Ve s s e l Associations highest legisla- tive priority on Capitol Hill in 2015 is to obtain Congressional relief from the one-size-fits-all out-of- water survival craft mandate. Unless Congress acts as of February of next year PVA vessel members who currently are allowed to use life floats will have to replace them with inflat- able buoyant apparatus IBAs. A major step toward achieving this goal occurred on May 18 of this year when the U.S. House of Representatives approved H.R. 1987 the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Authorization Act of 2015. Section 302 of the bill allows the U.S. Coast Guard to continue to use a risk-based system to determine the type of survival craft that must be carried on a commercial passenger vessel rather than implementing a one-size-fits-all requirement. If subsequently approved by the Senate and signed into law by the President section 302 will satisfacto- rily resolve this issue for PVA. It will relieve many PVA vessel operators of the current statutory requirement that they remove existing life floats and replace them with inflatable buoyant apparatus IBAs no later than February 2016. For many years the U.S. Coast Guard has had a comprehensive system of safety regulation of U.S. passenger-carrying vessels. These include but are not limited to approval of vessel construction and arrangement mandated safety drills vessel stability tests firefighting systems and equipment required communications and navigation systems periodic drydocking and 2570 Beverly Dr. 128 Aurora IL 60502 T 630.236.3500 CENTA Power trAnsmIssIon LeADIng By InnovAtIon USA based production Over 20 unique designs Over 16 million sold Torsional vibration experts Trust CENTA The Global Innovator Since 1970 CENTALINK Carbon Fiber Driveshafts Innovative flexible couplings for marine applications