Sherwood Boehlert: “the States do want it. As matter of fact, the secretary of state for New York was in town today lobbying for this. I…”

“the States do want it. As matter of fact, the secretary of state for New York was in town today lobbying for this. I will tell you who wants it: every single coastal State up and down the east coast and west coast and on along the Gulf of Mexico and along the Great Lakes region. And second, and this is very important as my colleague knows, It is no secret, say the Coastal States Organization, that we have had complaints about this program. Nonetheless, we believe that the immediacy of the coastal nonpoint pollution program calls for this program to be fixed, not killed. And this is very important. The coastal States, 30 of them, have invested over 4 years of work in developing the 6,217 programs; they are nearly complete, with that program and it will be submitted in July. Why throw out, say the coastal States, 4 years of diligent work, throw it out the window 2 months before the completion date.”