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TWIC update

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) released the latest edition of its status report on the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program – the TWIC Dashboard.  As of May 23, a total of 309,472 maritime workers have enrolled in the program and 111,,019 cards have been activated.  TSA also made available the minutes of the TWIC Stakeholder Communication Committee meeting.  Among other things, it notes that the security threat letters are being updated, based on feedback received. (HK Law).

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