Getting them interested is not the problem. Getting the money is.
There has been a trend in the federal government that has slowly
shifted towards a fee for use mechanism to pay for a lot of federal
services. The corp runs the dam and shore operations at Kerr Lake
where I have a vacation house. 5 years ago I purchased a 5 year
floating dock/vegitation modification permit that allows me to keep a
dock on the lake and clear the brush on my piece of the lake shore.
The corp sends someone out who basically just looks at where you are
proposing to put a dock and a path to the dock and tells you if he
likes it or not. Takes about 10 minutes. I paid $50. The 5 years
have passed and I got my renewal notice last month. It's $250 now.
There is a new "administrative cost" for renewals of $200. It gets
better, new dock permits have a $400 "administrative" fee.

Gene Kearns wrote:
On 19 Nov 2006 14:21:07 -0800, penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

If it was a waterway going into a local marina or park I would say that
they needed to chip in but to ask them to pay for dredgeing in an area
that is on the intercoastal only they should not have to chip in
anything. Maybe if we could get the Corps of Engineers to sit down at
Short Sugars in Reidsville and get a good BBQ dinner in them they would
think more clearly.

That might just work! At least they'd have had pretty decent food....
I had breakfast there this morning!

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