The ME Division has been restructured to allow greater
flexibility to ride the latest waves of change in the Coast Guard and the
Auxiliary. The largest piece of our portfolio is education. With programs
like Sea Partners, Good Mate, Clean Marina’s and Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS)
mitigation and hundreds of dedicated public educators, these programs have
the potential to prevent pollution incidents from happening. All of these
programs will now be managed by a single Branch Chief with two Branch
Assistants in the Education and Prevention Branch of the ME Division.
"Clean Boating Course" Lesson
Plan. This Clean
Boating Lesson Planis a product of the Maryland Clean Marina
Initiative. The Initiative promotes and celebrates voluntary adoption of
measures to reduce pollution from marinas and recreational boating.
National Ocean
Policy Report Released - The US Commission on Ocean Policy
released the pre-publication copy of its final report on 20 Sep
2004. This report is the most comprehensive review of our
nation’s marine policy framework since the release of the
Stratton Commission report 35 years ago and addresses many issues
involving the Coast Guard's environmental protection missions.
Chapters 16 through 19 are of particular significance to the USCG.
The Administration has 90 days to respond to Congress on the recommendations
in this report. The pre-publication copy
is available online.
[Source: DVC-ME]
Waterway
Watch and Sea Partners were the subjects of a train-the-trainers
meeting in New Orleans in July, at which some 90 USCG, Auxiliary and
Civilian members of Coast Guard Forces were given a “train-the-trainer”
education on the two programs. This article describes the meetings
and what was covered. [Posted 16 Sept 04]
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