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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:9.6pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">For Immediate Release Date: Friday, April 24, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Marine Board Approves Grant, Other Rules<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"> <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
The Oregon State Marine Board approved a grant to help fund projects for the Oregon Youth Conservation Corps (OYCC) and adopted rules for slow –no wake and waterway markers during their April 21-22 Board meetings, held in Salem.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> The Board approved a grant to OYCC to train, hire, and assign 22 youths to enhance 23 boating facilities in four counties. Additionally, the crews
will be involved in Adopt-A-River cleanup projects and receive training on boating safety-related projects. The Board approved $40,000 in state boater funds, combined with $28,692 in applicant matching funds for a project total of $70,692.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> After more than a year of consultation with law enforcement partners, a Rules Review Committee and comments from boaters, the Board adopted the proposed
definition of “slow-no wake,” which removes the 5 MPH and “maximum” reference where it appears in conjunction with “slow-no wake” in the Basic Proximity Rule, Local and Special Rules and the Scenic Waterways.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Board also initiated the rulemaking process to consider rules in OAR 250, Division 021, Personal Watercraft Rules, that removes the reference
to 5 MPH as it occurs with “slow-no wake,” and improve the general rule language for readability of the rules.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> The Board adopted rules in OAR 250, Division 10, to formalize a Waterway Marker Permit Program, which will inventory existing markers on Oregon’s waterways.
Additionally, the rules define how the agency, its partners, and private individuals can apply and place their own regulatory and informational markers for boat operation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> The Board adopted OAR 250-010-0164, Visual Distress Signals to create consistency between state and federal law, requiring visual distress signals
in the ocean or coastal waters, and on the Columbia River, west of the Astoria-Megler Bridge.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Additionally, the Board initiated the rulemaking process to consider rules in OAR 250, Division 011, 012 and 013, relating to Inland Navigation Rules,
and Lights and Shapes, to be consistent with recent changes in federal law. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Marine Board is funded by registration fees and marine fuel taxes paid by boaters.
<strong>No general fund tax dollars</strong> are used to support the agency or its programs. Boater-paid fees go back to boaters in the form of law enforcement services (on-the-water enforcement, training and equipment), education/outreach materials and boating
access facilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> To view the staff report, visit
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/OSMB/Pages/admin/members.aspx">http://www.oregon.gov/OSMB/Pages/admin/members.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Ashley A. Massey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Legislative Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Public Information Officer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Oregon State Marine Board<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">503-378-2623<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osmb"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="144" height="144" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D07E7B.22DA3F70" alt="EmailOSMB_logos_cmyk_300dpi"></span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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