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Grouping: Business<br />

Format: Comment Letter<br />

NUMBER<br />

RESPONSE<br />

B5-01 The Park Service agrees that the current 100-ton limit for tour vessels often bears little relationship to the actual<br />

displacement of the vessels <strong>and</strong> is subject to manipulation to the degree allowed under applicable tonnage measurement<br />

systems. However, the Park Service feels the current tonnage limit, in being directly related to specific regulatory vessel<br />

classes, should remain the distinction between cruise ships <strong>and</strong> tour vessels. The Park Service notes that vessel<br />

operators have the opportunity to use the 2,000-ton International Convention System as an alternative to the U.S. System<br />

100-ton limit. As a side note, NPS records indicate that cruise ships visiting Glacier Bay in 1976 (the vessel quota base<br />

year) included vessels 250 feet in length (Lindblad Explorer), so that if a change were contemplated, something less than<br />

the proposed 300 feet length would be the logical break-point.

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