Commercial Vessel Safety. Economic Costs. Preliminary.
Abstract
The U. S. Coast Guard has as one of its primary functions the promulgation and enforcement of regulations to enhance the safe operation of commercial vessels in U. S. navigable waters and to protect the marine environment. The work effort documented in this report had three objectives. First, a survey of methodologies applicable to the assessment of costs of Coast Guard regulatory and enforcement actions. Second, the development of a methodology and set of procedures that could provide the basis for a theoretically sound and defensible methodology for analyzing costs and cost impacts as part of the Coast Guard decision making process. Third, the demonstration of the methodology by estimating the costs of three different Coast Guard actions to the Government, maritime industry and economy as a whole. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA098314
Entities
People
- C. A. Crook
- C. H. Hammond
- M. L. Patterson
- T. S. Boisvert
- W. R. Whittemore Jr.