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Article: Congress prepares to slap restrictions on personal watercraft Environmentalists, boaters, shore dwellers push for new laws
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 8, 1999
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The screeching noises of personal watercraft are hitting the ears
of Washington's lawmakers and bureaucrats, who are preparing new laws
and regulations to beach the machines.
Rep. Jim Saxton (R-N.J.), chairman of the House Resources
Committee's subcommittee on conservation, says personal watercraft --
often called Jet Skis, after a popular brand -- are chewing up the
kelp beds and other wild grasses in shallow estuaries and bays in his
state, and he is pushing for new rules restricting their use in
shallow waters. The rules would be part of a new federal law
governing use of coastal properties that the House will consider
later this year.
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