Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 • FOGHORN 29 LEGISLATIVEREPORT By Ed Welch, PV A Legislative Director What Are PVA Legislative Goals in 2017? W ith the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump and the convening of the 115th Congress, PVA will continue to advocate for the well-being of the U.S. passenger vessel industry on Capitol Hill and before various federal agencies. PVA’s Board of Directors establishes the association legislative priorities, with input from the PVA Legislative Committee. Success on One-Size-Fits-All Survival Craft Mandate Prior to previewing PVA’s legislative objectives for the year 2017, it is well to recall that early in 2016 PVA achieved a long-sought and very consequential goal – the supersed- ing of the 2010 law that called for a one-size-fits-all survival craft requirement. When President Obama signed Public Law 114-120 on February 8, 2016, he enabled the U.S. Coast Guard to continue to employ a risk-based approach as to what type of survival craft should be mandated for pas- senger-carrying vessels of different types and in different locations. This will enable the industry and the Coast Guard to preserve a system that has produced an outstanding safety record, while sparing many PVAmembers of the substantial financial impact of “switching out” their existing survival craft. One more aspect of the survival craft issue remains to be gplink_quarter.indd 1 1/6/2017 10:25:38 AM