03-19-2014, 02:31 PM
[quote TubeDude][#0000ff]"Mandatory" was perhaps not the best word I could have used. [/#0000ff]
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[left]Like I said, a technicality. But it is an important technicality.
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I suspect there is a whole lot of scrambling going on amongst the NPS folks... to save jobs. Hopefully they can institute adequate damage control measures to reduce the fallout.
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I don't see any lost jobs at all. I imagine much of what is happening currently is simple politics. Right now funding at Powell is slated towards "prevention" and thus can only be spent to prevent mussels. Once the politics have run their course I would guess that the funding will be marked to include "maintenance", "isolation", or any other term necessary that allows the funding to be used for a reason other than keeping mussels out of Lake Powell. I'm guessing this is why cleanings are not currently happening upon request when boats leave -- the funding isn't allowed to spent cleaning boats leaving the lake, but rather only for cleaning boats coming to the lake. Politics. Jobs won't be going away.
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[left]Like I said, a technicality. But it is an important technicality.
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[/#0000ff][#0000ff][quote TubeDude]
I suspect there is a whole lot of scrambling going on amongst the NPS folks... to save jobs. Hopefully they can institute adequate damage control measures to reduce the fallout.
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I don't see any lost jobs at all. I imagine much of what is happening currently is simple politics. Right now funding at Powell is slated towards "prevention" and thus can only be spent to prevent mussels. Once the politics have run their course I would guess that the funding will be marked to include "maintenance", "isolation", or any other term necessary that allows the funding to be used for a reason other than keeping mussels out of Lake Powell. I'm guessing this is why cleanings are not currently happening upon request when boats leave -- the funding isn't allowed to spent cleaning boats leaving the lake, but rather only for cleaning boats coming to the lake. Politics. Jobs won't be going away.
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