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Joe Manchin: “So you think the operators--you think basically the whole standard is going to be built around the operators agreeing to…”

On the recordOctober 17, 2011
So you think the operators--you think basically the whole standard is going to be built around the operators agreeing to perform and to this function, basically, under the parameters that we've set not mattering--it doesn't matter what waters we're dealing in in the world?
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Manchin questions the effectiveness of standards for foreign operators in various waters.

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