Anonymous Public Comment

This is extremely alarming to me that the Environmental Protection Agency would seriously consider the boating industry, expecially in regards to private boat ownership to be permitted under the NPDES permit. Yes, the NPDES permit is there to help keep our waters clean, but it is a Storm Water permit. Are we to really regulate our boating inidustry with Storm Water permitting? If the EPA would like to actually get SERIOUS about cleaning up our waters to where they are fishable and swimmable, then it is far time to stop listening to the two areas that are the worst lobbied in our industry. Agriculture and Oil and Gas. If you can clean up those two industries related to water quality standards, you will find that you can acheive the standards that you would like to meet, as these two industries account for more pollution than all the rest of the NPDES permittable industries do. It is time to address the 500 pund gorilla in the room, instead of continuing to push more and more regulations down the citizens throats. If this passes, you can certainly anticipate the boating industry to take a major hit. We need less government, not more. Regulate the industries at fault, and not those that are going recreational fishing or boating.