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To whom it may concern,

My name is Michael Rescino I'm a 4th generation fisherman out of
San Francisco. I run my family charter boat the Lovely Martha and I
am a board member of the Golden Gate Fisherman's Association(ggfa).
I'm writing in concern of the proposed mandate for tier 4 engines
in all harbor craft. If this passes I will not have a future in a
business that my family has been apart of since 1908. My
grandfather had the  Lovely Martha built  in 1959 and since then my
family has kept up with upgrading to the most state of the art
engines including the tier 3 engine that we have today. 
I ask that you reconsider your mandate and let us stay in operation
with our tier 3 engine. If I had to replace my boat and have a new
boat built and get a new engine  the cost of all this would put me
out of business and put my family out on the street. 
 I would like to know where you have collected your data from. Also
we only run our vessel at 60 percent power only 15 percent of the
day on the water while the other 85 percent of the day we only run
the engine at 12-14 percent load. 

Capt. Mike Rescino