Capt_Keith
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 Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:22 pm Post subject: National Ocean Policy |
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On July 19th, 2010 President Obama signed an Executive Order to adopt the final recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force. These policies will establish a top-down, Washington, D.C.–based approval process that will hinder rather than promote ocean activities and cost American jobs.
Get the Facts:
•Rather than streamline Federal management, the recommendations add layers of additional Federal bureaucracy that could significantly impact the economic and recreational uses of our oceans, ocean lands, and potentially all rivers, tributaries and lands that drain or adjoin our oceans.
•Restrictive national standards, along with ocean zoning, could slow and potentially stop the permitting of activities such as commercial and recreational fisheries and energy production. This will harm the economy and cost jobs.
•It establishes a Federally-controlled system of regional planning bodies that could override local and state zoning authorities as far inland “as necessary” to “protect” and “maintain” ocean and coastal ecosystems. This doesn’t just impact oceans – but also far inland.
•The new national standards will also create a whole new class of lawsuits that could further restrict permitting of coastal and ocean activities and create a new way to challenge state permitting decisions for activities that “might affect” the ocean environment.
http://naturalresources.house.gov/Issues/Issue/?IssueID=23422
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