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Originally Posted by Woodsy
It seems to me Skip was absolutely correct in that HB-1624 allows a second form of noise testing as the background for the Bill as presented in the OFFICIAL House calendar says: The bill would allow a second testing procedure SAEJ2005
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I hate to keep saying the same thing...and I can't find the amended version yet...perhaps that includes some options that the original bill did not for testing the old way at 82 dB/50 feet
or the new way at 88 dB/0 feet. But the full text of the bill is spelled out above and there is nowhere in that for such a "second" or "alternate" limit/procedure for late model boats...regardless of what the "background" says or what Skip says. If there is such, all that I have asked (several times now) is that you show me where/how
in the text of the bill it does that.
And I had obviously not seen yesterday that it was just posted that the bill had just made it out of committee, or I would have changed the language of my statement...I guess you were faster to notice that...you win that one! But that does not eliminate the questions/concerns I have, which have so far gone unanswered, despite what the "background" of the report says.
For new boats, the noise limits will now be 88 dB at a point above the transom corner, outside of the exhaust stream, while the boat is idling...as opposed to (not "or else") the previous limit of 82dB at any point 50 feet away from a boat at full throttle. If you have specific text in the amended bill that contradicts this statement, please provide it...anything else, let's not waste any more of eachother's time.
I repeat what I have said so often in this string, that I question whether HB1624, if it passes, will really result in quieter boats, as is being promised by the MTA and Rep Whalley. I just have yet to be convinced that it will do that. Up until the past few days, I had thought we
all wanted tighter limits on boat noise.
Again, I don't want to keep rehashing the same points. If someone has a direct answer to my question above, I'd like to hear it...otherwise, I'd really like to head back down to Concord to continue my work on a more pressing issue.