Big Mess for Recreational Boaters
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BIG GOVERNMENT - BIG MESS For 34 years the U.S. federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has exempted discharges from recreational boats from the Clean Water Act permit system. A recent court ruling cancelled this permit exemption. EPA is required by the court decision to develop and implement by September 30, 2008 a national permit system for ALL vessels in the United States for a variety of normal operational discharges like grey water, engine cooling water and deck runoff. BoatU.S. along with other industry groups has been working behind the scenes to come up with a legislative fix for this huge problem. If nothing is done to solve this issue, you will have to pay for a permit for each boat that you operate including your dinghy, Laser, or motorboat in each state! -- Scuttleblog, read on: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/blog/2008/01/big-government-big-mess.html **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489
Seeing as the Puget Sound is experiencing a loss of habitats from pollution, I view any effort to clean it up as positive. But then, I'd rather see the government spend its efforts on cleaning up the environment then starting wars for more pollutants. Guess it's a matter of priorities. --Bob Olson M-15, Seaquel On Jan 3, 2008, at 7:21 PM, GILASAILR@aol.com wrote:
From Scuttlebutt:
BIG GOVERNMENT - BIG MESS For 34 years the U.S. federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has exempted discharges from recreational boats from the Clean Water Act permit system. A recent court ruling cancelled this permit exemption. EPA is required by the court decision to develop and implement by September 30, 2008 a national permit system for ALL vessels in the United States for a variety of normal operational discharges like grey water, engine cooling water and deck runoff. BoatU.S. along with other industry groups has been working behind the scenes to come up with a legislative fix for this huge problem. If nothing is done to solve this issue, you will have to pay for a permit for each boat that you operate including your dinghy, Laser, or motorboat in each state! -- Scuttleblog, read on: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/blog/2008/01/big-government-big-mess.html
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My .02 cents Oregon has a new (2 years old) law that states you must have a boat operators license for any craft with an engine over 10 horsepower. The state collects a fee and there are Internet companies that administer the test and send out the license. Total cost is only $30.00 or so . Seems like a good idea. The law was not hashed out by boaters, only by legislators and here in lies the problem. Every year there are 10-12 deaths from water activities, averaging 1 for horsepower of 10 or more and the rest come from rafters, and river runners, for which there is no license requirement. Now that the license is law, there is little to be done and the power boaters and anyone with 10hp plus are being saddled with an expense that appears to be increasing the general fund and not saving many (1) lives. If laws are argued before enacted, they generally make more sense. I doubt a dinghy, kayak or raft or deck run off from your Montgomery would put much pollution in the water. Maybe there should be some exemptions. Especially if it is being called a law to limit pollution, as opposed to a law to help clean it up. Bill On Jan 3, 2008 9:12 PM, Bob Olson <bobo4u@qwest.net> wrote:
Seeing as the Puget Sound is experiencing a loss of habitats from pollution, I view any effort to clean it up as positive. But then, I'd rather see the government spend its efforts on cleaning up the environment then starting wars for more pollutants. Guess it's a matter of priorities.
--Bob Olson
M-15, Seaquel
On Jan 3, 2008, at 7:21 PM, GILASAILR@aol.com wrote:
From Scuttlebutt:
BIG GOVERNMENT - BIG MESS For 34 years the U.S. federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has exempted discharges from recreational boats from the Clean Water Act permit system. A recent court ruling cancelled this permit exemption. EPA is required by the court decision to develop and implement by September 30, 2008 a national permit system for ALL vessels in the United States for a variety of normal operational discharges like grey water, engine cooling water and deck runoff. BoatU.S. along with other industry groups has been working behind the scenes to come up with a legislative fix for this huge problem. If nothing is done to solve this issue, you will have to pay for a permit for each boat that you operate including your dinghy, Laser, or motorboat in each state! -- Scuttleblog, read on:
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/blog/2008/01/big-government-big-mess.html
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