Please
change the definition of a short-run ferry in the proposed
harborcraft regulations so that a boat that operates with a diesel
engine cannot add multiple legs or add one long leg in order to
avoid the requirements that a short-run ferry be zero emission. As
written, the regulations will cause boat operators to game the
regulations by running more and longer routes and this will
increase CO2 emissions by thousands of tons in the Bay Area and
this is wrong. Zero-emission regulations should reduce CO2
emissions not increase them. Please make it that everyone
running a vessel on a short-run route has to follow the same
regulations and be zero-emission without loopholes. That's only
fair and also will ensure the proposed regulations reduce CO2
emissions created by ferries in the San Francisco Bay.
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