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Originally Posted by likwid
Its all there on the regulations.gov site.
Just very very long.
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It's currently in proposal form...not law yet, but I can't find anything in this that says the money can't be thrown into some random General Fund that the politicians can wallow in....or anything that says the states can only charge what's needed to cover their expenses:
http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/mrip/abo...ter_Notice.pdf
As far as I can tell, it lets states claim their licenses are enough if they'll provide the names/addresses/phone#s of all their fishermen so someone can survey them. There's no limit on what fee the states think is "reasonable" for this.
What's amusing is the federal tracking info for this survey is estimated to cost $1.7M. Bet that'll go overbudget as usual
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