| Comment | Dear Ms. Nichols and Board Members:
The Environmental Defense Center (EDC) is supportive of the Draft
Cap-and-Trade Auction Proceeds Investment Plan: Fiscal Years
2013-14 through 2015-16 (Draft Investment Plan) but recommends
including vessel speed reduction (which is missing from the Draft
Investment Plan) in your Final Investment Plan as a priority for
funding and requests that Cap-and-Trade money be directed to the
Vessel Speed Reduction Initiative.
In addition, this Initiative has a broad coalition of supporters
including federal, state, regional and local agencies, as well as
NGOs, representatives of industry and the scientific community, and
members of the public. We would like to have Appendix A in the
Final Implementation Plan revised to include the VSR Initiative and
acknowledge this coalition.
More details are provided in the attached letter. Thank you for
your consideration of these comments.
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