May 23
As ridiculous as it seems, a Federal Appeals Court has ruled that the EPA did not have the power to exempt powerboats from a 34-year-old federal law intended to regulate ballast water discharges from commercial shipping. NMMA president, Thom Dammrich, says that if the industry and boat owners don’t take this threat seriously and get the ruling overturned, they could be stopped by police at launch ramps unless they have expensive EPA permits.
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