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		<title>CSLC Technology Assessment Update (October 2009)</title>
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		<title>Coast Guard considers new rules to regulate ballast; takes up where Congress left off &#8211; Great Lakes Echo</title>
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		<title>Slimy-skinned ships to slip smoothly through the seas (September 2009)</title>
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		<title>Bill introduced to implement Anti-Fouling Convention Clean Hull Act of 2009 (H.R. 3618) (Septmeber 2009)</title>
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		<title>Proposed Ballast Water Discharge Standard Rulemaking White Paper, USCG (September 2009)</title>
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		<title>Standards for Living Organisms in Ships&#8217; Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters; Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (September 2009)</title>
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		<title>IMO News Issue 2, 2009</title>
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		<title>U.S. Navy Developing Sustainable Biocide To Keep Barnacles At Bay &#8211; Green Diary</title>
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		<title>Funding Secured For World&#8217;s Only Fresh Water Ballast Treatment Facility</title>
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		<title>Research from San Francisco Bay: The role of containerships as transfer mechanisms of marine biofouling species (July 2009)</title>
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