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GREAT LAKES SMALL HARBORS COALITION

GREAT LAKES SMALL HARBORS COALITION. Chuck May, Chair Pro Tem Portage Lake Harbor, MI. cmay08@charter.net www.greatlakessmallharbors.org /. US Army Corps. of Engineers Great Lakes & Ohio River Division. Portage Lake Harbor. HARBOR MAINTENANCE. Great Lakes Crisis in the Making!

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GREAT LAKES SMALL HARBORS COALITION

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  1. GREAT LAKES SMALL HARBORS COALITION Chuck May, Chair Pro Tem Portage Lake Harbor, MI. cmay08@charter.net www.greatlakessmallharbors.org/

  2. US Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes & Ohio River Division Portage Lake Harbor

  3. HARBOR MAINTENANCE Great Lakes Crisis in the Making! • IV Drip (Earmarks) for a Decade! • D.C. Shutting off Life Support! • FY12, Only 7 of 112 to be Dredged! • FY13, 7 of 112 to be Dredged! • All 71 Shallow Draft “Cutoff”! • Personal Safety/Community Lifeblood? Harbors Need Your Help!

  4. Federal Harbors on the Great Lakes • A non-linear navigation system with 60 federal commercial harbors and 79 federal shallow draft/recreational harbors • Some shallow draft harbors are subsistence harbors or support commercial transportation (ferries) or commercial fishing activities Chippewa Harbor Grand Marais Lake Superior Beaver Bay Eagle Harbor Two Harbors Lac La Belle Knife River Keweenaw Waterway Grand Traverse Bay Cornucopia La Pointe Duluth-Superior Bayfield Big Bay Little Lake Port Wing Whitefish Point Harbor Ontonagon Black River Presque Isle Grand Marais Soo Locks Ashland Saxon St. Marys River Marquette MI Channels in Straits of Mackinac Detour Manistique Les Cheneaux Island Grays Reef CANADA Gladstone Mackinac Island Little Bay de noc Mackinac City St. James Cheboygan Cross Village Hammond Bay Inland Route Washington Island Petoskey Cedar River Charlevoix Menominee WI Leland Lake Huron Alpena Oconto Sturgeon Bay Pensaukee Black River Harbor Greilickville Algoma Big Suamico Harrisville Frankfort Ogdensburg Kewaunee Arcadia Cape Vincent Green Bay Au Sable Harbor Morristown Portage Lake Tawas Bay Two Rivers Ontario Port Austin Point Lookout Manistee Manitowoc Lake Ludington Harbor Beach Sackets Harbor Oswego Sheboygan Pentwater Caseville Bay Port Saginaw Port Sanilac White Lake Sebewaing Port Washington Port Ontario MI Lexington Little Sodus Bay Lake Michigan Muskegon Oak Orchard Great Sodus Bay Irondequoit Bay Olcott Rochester Wilson Grand River Black River Little River Grand Haven Milwaukee Pine River St. Clair River Buffalo Black Rock Lock/Tonawanda Holland Belle River NY Clinton River Kenosha Saugatuck Sturgeon Point Lake St. Clair Cattaraugus Lake Erie South Haven Waukegan IL Dunkirk Rouge River St. Joseph Barcelona Detroit River Commercial St. Joseph River Monroe Erie Chicago Harbor New Buffalo Bolles Harbor Put-In-Bay Conneaut PA Recreational Michigan City Chicago River Fairport Ashtabula Toledo Calumet Cooley Canal Rocky River Burns Small Boat Harbor OH Cleveland Toussaint River Port Clinton West Harbor Indiana Harbor Burns Waterway Harbor Vermilion Lorain IN Huron Sandusky

  5. CITIZENS IMPACTED CityCounty Ports 5,030,000 10,775,000 Harbors 1,620,000 8,975,000 TOTAL 6,650,000 19,750,000

  6. GLSHC MEMBERSHIP • Founded in Michigan Feb. ‘08 • Unified Grassroots Voice • Earmarks = Broken Process • Mission: Equitable, sustainable, and needs based budget process • 110 Resolutions of Support (incl. Advocate Orgs.) • 72 Harbor Communities (60%) • Over 4 million citizens

  7. Dredging Funding Trends 2007 - 2013 5.5 FY12 Nat’lProvision 5.0 ARRA (Stimulus) 4.5 L. Superior 4.0 Regional Provisions 3.3M Annual Reqm’t 3.5 Michigan Regional Provision 3.0 Quantity Dredged (M cu yd) 2.5 Commercial Regional Provisions 2.0 1.5 Energy & Water Adds 1.0 President's 0.5 Budget 0.0 FY12 FY13 FY11 FY09 FY10 FY07 FY08

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  9. 2012 FUNDING ELIGIBILITY • Ports 10 • Harbors>1 mil. Tons 14 • PRIORITY TO FUND (20%) 24 • Low-Use Commercial 27 • Shallow Draft 71 • LOW TO NO PRIORITY (80%) 98

  10. 14 PRIORITY HARBORS Michigan (6)Ohio (6) Presque Isle Ashtabula Alpena Conneaut Muskegon Sandusky Charlevoix Lorain Grand Haven Fairport Marquette Huron MinnesotaNew York Two Harbors Buffalo

  11. 2012 DREDGINGNEEDED VS. FUNDED NeededFunded % Commercial 22 7 32% Shallow Draft 39 0 0% TOTAL 61 7 11%

  12. 2012 DREDGINGNEED/FUNDS BY STATE NeededFunded% New York 9 0 0 Ohio 10 1 10 Michigan 27 4 15 Indiana 1 1 100 Illinois 1 1 100 Wisconsin 12 0 0 Minnesota 1 0 0 TOTAL 61 7 11% NO SHALLOW DRAFT!

  13. 2013 DREDGING Funded New York 0 Ohio 3 Michigan 4 Indiana 1 Wisconsin 0 Minnesota 0 TOTAL 8

  14. INFRASTRUCTURE ASSESSMENTHIGH RISK OF FAILURE New York 2 (Oswego; Black Rock) Ohio 3 (Ashtabula; Fairport; Lorain) Michigan 3 (Portage Lake; New Buffalo, Grand Marais) Indiana 1 (Burns Small Boat) TOTAL 9

  15. WHAT IS THE COST? • Dredging (Great Lakes Wide) Facts: Shallow Draft $10 mil. Com’l (<1 mil. Ton) $10 mil. Total Annual $20 mil. • Infrastructure - Annual $20 mil.

  16. WHERE IS THE MONEY? • Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT) TaxPays 1986 .04% 40% 1990 .125% 100% • Purpose: Ad Valorum Tax on ship cargo and passenger tickets to fund the operation and maintenance of nation’s harbors.

  17. ECONOMIC BENEFIT(SHALLOW DRAFT) • Annual Economic Impact $5.5 bil. (Source: John Glen Study) • Annual Payback on Dredging 550X • Jobs!! Over 60,000 • Hello, Keep The Harbors Open!

  18. RAMP ACT Bills S.412 and H.R.104 “Mandate 100% of HMT is spent annually to maintain Nation’s federal harbors.”

  19. S. 412 CO-SPONSORS Nationwide 35 (35%) Great Lakes 11 (69%) Illinois 1 (Kirk) New York 2 Indiana 0 Ohio 2 Michigan 2 Pennsylvania 0 Minnesota 2 Wisconsin 2

  20. H.R.104 CO-SPONSORS • Nationwide 176 (40%) • Great Lakes States 58 (46%) • Michigan 13 of 15 Pennsylvania 6 of 19 • Illinois 13 of 19 Wisconsin 4 of 8 • Ohio 10 of 18 Minnesota 2 of 8 • New York 8 of 29 Indiana 2 of 9 GREAT LAKES 58 OF 125

  21. POSSIBLE CONGRESSIONAL ACTIONS • Pass H.R.104 & S.412 stand alone (low) • Add to Appropriations Bills House H.R.7 Energy & Infrastructure Senate Surface Transportation • WRDA (no)

  22. GLSHC ACTION • Unifying: Harbor Communities Commercial & Shallow Draft Harbors G.L. Congressional Delegation Other Advocate Orgs. • Engaging: Citizens, Boards, Mayors, Yachting, Fishing • Raising the “Crowd Noise”!

  23. GREAT LAKES COMMISSION ADVOCACY • Commissioners formally prioritize this mission? • Governors individually & collectively engaged? • Entreat Corps Generals for higher priority? • Petition Administration/OMB for adequate Great Lakes regional budget line-item ($20/$20 mil.)? • Encourage G.L. Senators/Representatives not co-sponsoring? • Help publicize this CRISIS! CROWD NOISE!

  24. IT IS A CRISIS! • Already low use commercial harbors “closed/reopened”! • Next, sailboats; then cruising/ fishing/recreational boats! • Personal safety issue! • Community survival! • GET ENGAGED!

  25. US Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes & Ohio River Division Portage Lake Harbor

  26. GREAT LAKES SMALL HARBORS COALITION Chuck May, Chair Pro Tem Portage Lake Harbor, Mi. cmay08@charter.net www.greatlakessmallharbors.org/

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