Steve W. Trofimchuk

Document ID: USCG-2004-19621-0070
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Coast Guard
Received Date: July 10 2008, at 10:58 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: 80664e0f
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This is comment on Rule

Dry Cargo Residue Discharges in the Great Lakes; Notice of Public Meeting

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I am a Canadian citizen who belives that people be they Americans or Canadians have a moral obligations to treat with respect and care the precious gift we have known as the Great Lakes. Other countries would kill to have such a naturaI resource bestowed upon them. The 1993 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! What short sighted strategy is this? Water is the most precious natural resource we have and laziness is no excuss for this poisoning.