View Single Post
Old 31-07-2008, 05:03   #3
ssullivan
Senior Cruiser
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 4,530
Yes, it would be difficult to have imagined Bush Jr. sticking it to the old man by requiring the family boats up Kennebunkport to comply with arcane Clean Water Act laws.



Quote:
Originally Posted by GordMay View Post
President Bush signed (July 29/08) The Clean Boating Act of 2008 into law.
Both houses of Congress passed the Clean Boating Act July 22.
The Clean Boating Act of 2008 permanently and fully restores a regulation that excludes recreational boaters and anglers from the Clean Water Act federal and state permitting system designed for land-based industrial facilities like sewage treatment plants.
Without legislative relief, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was set to implement new permitting regulations for boaters by Oct. 1, 2008.
At the same time it passed The Clean Boating Act of 2008, Congress also passed legislation to provide a moratorium on permitting for commercial vessel discharges until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency completes a review of certain incidental discharges.

Goto:
President Bush Signs the Clean Boating Act of 2008 and the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 Into Law
ssullivan is offline   Reply With Quote