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Members of the board, 

	I am writing to express my frustration and my outrage at your
proposed regulations on commercial harbor craft such as sport
fishing and whale watching vessels which operate in our state. 
	For more than twenty years, my uncle Mr. Dan Salas has operated
tour and sportfishing boats in the waters of Los Angeles and Long
Beach, a thriving business that has put food on his table and his
children through college. Now, your draconian, outright impossible
engine regulations proposed this year seek not to cut down on
pollution in our state, but to snuff out the livelihood of small
businesses like my uncle Dan's all for the sake of stamping out
what little pollution that small charter vessels emit. This isn't
about pollution is it? It's about stamping out the little guy. If
this board, this state, and its government was really interested in
reigning in pollution on our coasts, why not focus on the ports,
the cargo vessels with their oily industrial powerplants instead of
the little guy? 
	What you are proposing, if I have the story straight is to install
a technology that doesn't exist yet in an environment that it
hasn't been even remotely tested for use in and then assume that
everything will be fine. I've read a lot of ridiculous things in my
day and this might just take the cake. This plan eschews all logic
for the sake of an agenda that supports a select few whiles ruining
the many. Ever think to stop and wonder how many tourist dollars
are brought in by these businesses? Ever think to consider the
economic impact of stamping even briefly out a staple tourism
industry in our state?  
	In closing then I ask then that CARB think long and hard about
what it wants to do. I ask that the board understand that what it's
doing is not just a death sentence to a few family businesses, it's
a death sentence to one of the most prolific of tourist industries
in California. 
	Keep California the Golden State that it aspires to be as we
recover from the pandemic storm and keep your hands OFF California
sportfishing. 


Signed,
Michael Zurvalec
Orange County, California.