ACHIEVEMENTS
 CBYCA Legal Actions in 2008
   Federal Bills
 
•  EPA Permits $ required for water runoff from decks, engine cooling   waters, and gray water discharge = DEFEATED
•  USCG  to remove all LORAN operational systems = DEFEATED
•  USSC  Ruling on Eminent Domain Issues = Old Dominion YC 
•  USCG Rescue 21 now in service in the Chesapeake Bay area
•  What’s Hot !
•  Keeping LNG ships off shore, out of critical areas
•  NTSB - State Operator Licenses for all boaters
•  Our Diminishing Waterway Access
•  Renewable Fuel Bill = Increase ethanol based fuel problems
•  The Diminishing Federal funding issues
DYC Domunion Yacht Club
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
NTSB National Transpertation Safety Board
USSC United States Suprime Court
LNG Liquidfied Natural Gas
NFB National Boating Federation
･Open Bay Dumping･Operator Licensing･Boat Taxes･PFDﾕs For Children･Dredging･Consumer Affairs･Waterfront Eminent Domain･Convert NOAA Broadcast to Private Domain Accuweather･LNG Position Paperﾊ -ﾊ Adopted by the Membership at the Delegates meeting 2-18-06,ﾊ requires a cover letter to the State of distribution.･Point Source Pollution - ChemicalThese are a few of the recent issues where the CBYCA saw to it that the view of the boater was heard. These and many other issues are constantly coming up and CBYCA is there at the hearings and having the recreational boaterﾕs side of the story presented.ﾊ Without the present of the CBYCA, the word does not get to those who count and the pleasure boater carries the brunt once again.locating liquefied-natural-gas facilities in urban populated areas.
•Sparrows Point, on the Patapsco Maryland, Crown Landing Logan Township on the Delaware River in New Jersey and Port Richmond on the Delaware River in Pennsylvania become targets for big money investors.
•These panels want you to think itﾕs OK to close the waterway numerous times a week, for hours on end.ﾊ The tankers are safe and the risk in minimal.
• Effectively it forms a blockade of all conveyances on bridges, roadways and waterways thereby inflicting a social impact to the entire community
•BP obviously can't pay the Coast Guard for additional security escorts and there will have to be some public funding. That public funding will come out of Tax dollars of the very citizens against the projects.
•The wearing of a PFD is a personal choice.ﾊ Your experience is 1 out of 1,000,000 occurrences.

•PUMPOUTScurrently, Boaters must travel some distance to find operational pumpout stations.ﾊ The distance to a station may be as close as your marina or you may have to travel 10-20 miles for a pumpout.ﾊ At times the stations may be closed, require special coins, broken, inaccessible at low tide or even missing not to mention long waits at operational stations.ﾊ What is a boater to do with a full holding tank at these stressful times.?
CBYCA supports actions to:·ﾊﾊﾊﾊﾊﾊﾊﾊ Minimize the environmental impact of dredging recognizing such actions rarely are without cost·ﾊﾊﾊﾊﾊﾊﾊﾊ Opposed to restrictions on speed, wake, bridge openings, boating activities, etc. which are not based on consideration of the needs and interests of all affected parties·ﾊﾊﾊﾊﾊﾊﾊﾊ Protect the rights and interests of recreational boaters in the course of commercial interactions
LORAN C: Chinese have "painted" one of our satellites as an experiment, preventing their GPS operations. Also, solar flares have disrupted the service recently. So, Loran is important to be continued as a backup to GPS.