On the recordMarch 30, 2023
I appreciate our colleagues on the other side of the aisle pointing out all these different rules and regulations that we have to go through for a vessel to simply come in and out. This amendment is very simple. It says if you have a permit today and it expires today, that permit is good until the new permit is issued. It has nothing to do with further checking of water quality because that is already set up in the first permit. The layers of government bureaucracy are already put in place. All this amendment very simply says is you can continue running your business until we have time to do our job. It is hard to run a business based on the Federal Government's time clock because the government gets in no hurry. The slower they get, the more important they feel. The business community cannot handle this. We have got to give the business community some help, and this is help. Again, all this is simply saying is you carry on the way that you have agreed to carry on for the last 5 years, and we will get to you as quick as we can. I think it is a great amendment, and I am here to support it.
