First, I would like to thank everyone for their input thus far. Many of your suggestions will be worked into the rule section which will exempt certain projects. Some of the suggested activities are already exempted and won't need to be included in the rules. A section will also be added to the rules outlining special provisions for emergency situations. (Thanks to Hemlockpoint for bring this up because we had overlooked it.)
This process has also been helpful in highlighting areas on which we should concentrate our education efforts. We are trying to put together a series of short educational powerpoints to be posted on the Shoreland Protection Program website. It is just going take a little time to develop them. The language of the law as it will appear on April 1, 2008 is already posted on the site. The main Shoreland Protection site is
www.des.state.nh.us/cspa.
I realize there are other questions here that I have not answered yet. I will try to answer them in the coming days as time allows.
Please keep the comments coming.