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Wood Tick

Posted 3/26/2008 7:54 AM (#309776)
Subject: EPA permit??

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I saw this on a hunting board a go to. Anyone hear about this and is this true?? If this has been posted already, sorry.

Recreational Boating Act 2007

In September, 2006, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a 34-year-old exemption for recreational boats from an EPA regulation intended to stop ballast water discharge from ocean-going freighters and tankers in U.S. waters.

If a higher court or the U.S. Congress does not act, 18 million boats will be required to have special EPA permits that couls cost $800 or more.

http://www.boattest.com/nmma.aspx

mikie

Posted 3/26/2008 10:14 AM (#309803 - in reply to #309776)
Subject: Re: EPA permit??

Location: Athens, Ohio

There is congressional action afoot to be sure that does not happen. What does need to happen is better regulation of international cargo boats discharging contaminated ballast water with foreign critters in it into our Great Lakes. If you Google the name of the boating act you'll see where elected reps are already working on the problem so it does not affect your Ranger, Tuffy, or Gambler boat. m

muskie! nut

Posted 3/26/2008 11:22 AM (#309816 - in reply to #309803)
Subject: Re: EPA permit??