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		<title>HMTF: The Seven Billion Dollar Clue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) is overdue for a remedy.  How do we know? The unspent balance of Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT) receipts, plus interest, is a mere $7,000,000,000. HMT receipts are accounted for in the channel “maintenance” trust fund.  However (not to be too picky) the Federal channel system is not fully maintained, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=1046&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping the &#8220;Hidden Highway&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When someone talks about &#8220;keeping ships from turning into shipwrecks&#8221; we all probably could agree that&#8217;s a worthwhile use of tax dollars. The fellow whose job it has been to map the coastal waters where ships ply the &#8220;hidden highway&#8221; is Captain Steve Barnum, who retired this year NOAA after 29 years.  He most recently [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=508&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Hear It For Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At risk of speaking too soon and jinxing the whole thing&#8230;  A toast to Congress! This time next week Congress should complete action on the Energy &#38; Water Development Appropriations for FY 2010 (HR 3183).   With any luck the funding bill for the Federal water resources and energy programs will be approved by the Senate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=377&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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