Everyone better pay attention to this:

HR 2550
"Recreational Boating Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (popularly known as the Clean Water Act) to include within the
meaning of the term "pollutant" any deck runoff from a recreational vessel,
any engine cooling water, gray water, bilge water effluent from properly
functioning recreational marine engines, laundry, shower, and galley sink
wastes from a recreational vessel, or any other discharge incidental to the
normal operation of a recreational vessel. States that this term does not
apply to rubbish, trash, garbage, or other such materials discharged
overboard by a recreational vessel. "

This seems to ban bilge pumps, water cooled engines, rinsing the deck,
washing the topsides and maybe even brushing our teeth..

Notice that this applies only to recreational vessels, not to cargo ships
discharging ballast water full of zebra mussels and other exotic pests.

--
Glenn Ashmore

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