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These amendments are quite distressing.  Sports fishing is a great
recreational business in the state of California, and the burden of
such engine regulations is totally unreasonable.  

Does your agency understand the magnitude of such cumbersome
regulations on this wonderful industry?  

PLEASE rethink this new set of standards.  It simply does not work.
 
As you well know, the Newsom Administration has proposed passenger
boat regulations that require new engines and technology that is
not feasible from a safety, financial or operational standpoint.

Stated by the California Air Resources Board's,  the proposed
regulations will likely remove passenger boats made of wood and
fiberglass from service. This would apply to over 80% of all boats!
If boat owners can't afford to spend millions of dollars for new
metal boats --- or you can't or won't pay twice as much for boat
tickets to pay for the new boats, boat owners will be forced out of
business.

As boats go out of business millions of Californians will be denied
access to the open sea and significant economic harm will come to
coastal communities that depend on outdoor tourism. 

Personally, we have generations of family who have been sports
fisherman.  To be able to take these trips have been such a
pleasure through the years.  We implore CARB to STOP these WRONGFUL
REGULATIONS.

Good fishing,

Hal and Laura Kliegman