Lyn H. James

Document ID: USCG-2004-19621-0068
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Coast Guard
Received Date: July 09 2008, at 10:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: July 10 2008, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: July 10 2008, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: July 22 2008, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80660ace
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This is comment on Rule

NPRM - Dry Cargo Residue Discharges in the Great Lakes

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I recently returned from vacation to Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan, the area and views were spectactular, till you looked down at your feet. The beaches are littered for miles with all sorts of human debris, including pieces of black coal. There is also stinking areas of green algae everywhere! Then I read in the newspaper that there is a federal law and international treaty that prohibits ships from dumping waste into the great lakes, but a 1993 intermin policy by the Coast Guard and Congress allows freighters to wash "non-toxic" cargo residues off ships and into the Great Lakes after leaving port. THIS PRACTICE MUST STOP! ALLOW NO DUMPING OR BALLAST DISCHARGE OF ANY TYPE IN ANY OF THE GREAT LAKES!