Coast Guard Budget Authorization for Fiscal Year 1996: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, February 14 and 15, 1995

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Página 133 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand. As in what direction we are moving; . . . We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it.
Página 111 - International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention...
Página 205 - Oil" means petroleum in any form including crude oil, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse and refined products (other than petrochemicals which are subject to the provisions of Annex II of the present Convention) and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes the substances listed in Appendix I to this Annex. (2) "Oily mixture" means a mixture with any oil content. (3) "Oil fuel...
Página 232 - TEAM COAST GUARD The Coast Guard has embraced the reality that its Reserve is a value-added resource. This fact has been demonstrated by the adoption of Team Coast Guard and the movement to fully integrate Coast Guard Reservists into their parent active Force commands. This expansion of augmentation training also benefits the Coast Guard as Reservists perform additional day-to-day operations with reduced administrative overhead achieved by making the parent command responsible for Reserve personnel...
Página 220 - States (except a foreign vessel engaged on that voyage); (C) departing from a place under the jurisdiction of the United States for a place in a foreign country; or (D) making a voyage between a place within a territory or possession of the United States and another place under the jurisdiction of the United...
Página 272 - Integrity is the ability of a system to provide timely warnings to users when the system should not be used lor navigation.
Página 233 - Reservists into their parent Active Force commands. This expansion of augmentation training also benefits the Coast Guard as Reservists perform day-to-day operations and reduces administrative overhead by making the parent command responsible for Reserve personnel in the same manner as the assigned activeduty personnel. ROA supports the goals and objectives of this new method of operating. However, the questions of how to provide meaningful assignments for senior Reservists (officer and enlisted)...
Página 48 - Specifically, our reduction efforts sought to: o Reduce overhead and administrative costs, o Minimize organizational and management layers. o Examine opportunities to exploit existing and emerging technologies that could improve mission efficiency and productivity. o Reduce or eliminate older, maintenance intensive, and relatively low productivity assets, while preserving and replacing, where necessary, the infrastructure we need to do our jobs more efficiently. Then, working very closely with the...
Página 49 - We have done a great deal already. In FY 1994 and FY 1995 we streamlined the Coast Guard by reducing our recurring need for people and funding. Streamlining initiatives in those budgets eliminated over 1,250 full-time equivalents and produced over $200 million in annual lied savings.
Página 207 - Rules", for the design, construction, and periodic survey of merchant ships and other marine structures.

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