BOATERS: TAKE ACTION!

NATIONAL BOATING FEDERATION ACTION Alert:
HELP STOP FEDERAL BOAT PERMITTING!
(Courtesy of NMMA)

PLEASE URGE YOUR U.S. SENATORS TO CO-SPONSOR S 2766, the Clean Boating Act of
2008
March 17, 2008

THE THREAT TO RECREATIONAL BOATING:
Unless Congress acts soon, every recreational boater in the country will have to obtain a
federal or state permit in order to operate their boat. This means yearly fees, bureaucratic
red tape, confusing and potentially state-by-state regulations, citizen suits and $32,000
per day penalties for non-compliance. These permits would apply to deck run-off, bilge
water, engine cooling water and any other water-based, operational discharge from a
recreational boat. The Environmental Protection Agency, due to a sweeping court order, is
already writing this unprecedented new regulation on boaters.

THE CLEAN BOATING ACT OF 2008:
Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) have just introduced S. 2766, the
Clean Boating Act of 2008. S. 2766 would fully and permanently restore a 35-year permit
exemption for recreational boat incidental discharges, such as weather deck run-off and
engine coolant water, and works to protect the health of the nation's waterways by
pursuing whether or not reasonable and practicable best management practices need to
be put into place for some incidental discharges. This important bill preserves recreational
boating and the boating industry, taking a balanced approached that recognizes that
pleasure boat discharges are completely different from land-based industrial facilities and
commercial ships.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY TO PROTECT BOATING:
All Boaters MUST contact their U.S. Senators and tell them to co-sponsor S. 2766, the
Clean Boating Act of 2008. You can quickly and easily send a letter to your Senators by
visiting:

www.boatblue.org.

Once, there, it is a simple process to contact your Senators. This is the most significant
threat facing Boaters today, and we need your help to solve it. Take 5 minutes to tell
Congress to support S. 2766.

For more information:

-WWW.BOATBLUE.ORG
-Contact Mat Dunn (mdunn@nmma.org; 202-737-9760) or Dylan Jones
(djones@nmma.org; 202-737-9776) so they can follow up with your Senators.

We thank the NMMA for thier support and expertise, and we all need to pitch in.
THE NATIONAL BOATING FEDERATION

PICYA is a member of NBF.