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MARCH 2016 FOGHORN 19 By Ed Welch PVA Legislative Director LEGISLATIVEREPORT T he Passenger Vessel Association has accomplished its highest leg- islative priority of recent years. The President signed the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2015 on February 8 2016 culminating PVAs successful years-long quest to obtain relief from the one-size-fits-all out-of-water survival craft requirement first enacted by Congress in 2010. If the new law had not been enacted the survival craft mandate would have gone into effect as of February 26. The survival craft relief language is found in section 301 of Public Law 114-120. This provision supersedes the one-size-fits-all survival craft mandate contained in the 210 law. Ever since the 2010 statutes enactment PVA and its allies worked doggedly to get Congress to reconsider its decision. As a result of the new law nearly all PVA vessel operators are relieved of the one-size-fits-all survival craft mandate. Current U.S. Coast Guard regulations specifying the type of survival craft life floats inflatable buoyant apparatus etc. applicable to a specific vessel on a specific route will continue unchanged. In other words a vessel that has been allowed to meet safety rules by the use of life floats will continue to be able to use them while other passenger-carrying vessels currently required to use out-of- water inflatable buoyant apparatus will employ them. Thanks to every PVA member who met with or wrote to Members of Congress in support of the supersed- ing survival craft amendment said PVA President Margo Marks Beaver Island Boat Company Charlevoix MI. This accomplishment demon- strates how PVA members and staff working together with our industry allies can present a compelling case to our lawmakers in support of the safe A Legislative Milestone for PVAQuest for Survival Craft Amendment Succeeds 100 Furuno designed Linux software improves stability reduces virus risk Fully compliant IMO systems 19 23.1 LCD or Black Box ECDIS with user supplied wide glass bridge monitors are available Simple Ethernet connection to FAR2xx7 Radars saving thousands over complex interface kits www.FurunoUSA.com www.Facebook.comFuruno ECDISElectronic Chart Display and Information System ECDISElectronic Chart Display and Information System