The intent of our legislation is to make shipowners, vessel owners, or pleasure craft owners accountable. It is not fair, in our opinion, for taxpayers to have to—if I can put it this way—clean up a problem that they had nothing to do with because the owner either allowed the ship to become a risk or an environmental hazard or just walked away and disappeared into the night. Those are the things that have created the situation of hundreds of vessels—
On February 5th, 2018. See this statement in context.