SB20

SB20

=Pollution in the Ocean= LMoniz NM Democrat GKlinger WA Democrat MHoulahan MT Moderate

Purpose The purpose of our bill is to keep from dumping sewage, plastic, and hazardous materials into the oceans. This bill will help make the ocean a clean and healthy place. When people pollute the ocean, everyone is affected. Animals are affected because this is their home that we're ruining, they cannot always tell the difference from garbage and food so they eat the garbage and it harms them. Six pack plastic holders are especially dangerous for the ocean because animals get tangled in them and get strangled sometimes to their death, and most cannot free themselves on their own. This also affects people. During storms, garbage washes up onto the beaches, contaminating shellfish beds, which we eat, and it causes outbreaks of disease. It also takes away from our beaches natural beauty.

Eligibility This bill will affect the large companies, cruise ships, and people at beaches who throw their trash into the ocean. We need to inform them that they can’t throw their garbage and waste into the ocean due to convenience.

Terms and Benefits- ﻿"Pollution in the Oceans" will work on making sure that future generations will get to enjoy clean oceans. This bill will use some of the tax payer's dollars, some fines we collect, and money from the EPA budget. Fiscal Impacts
 * It will start with creating new jobs. These new jobs will be people in charge of watching the beaches for pollution. They will also monitor pollution levels of the coast. If these levels are higher than normal, they will monitor those parts of the ocean more carefully.
 * The fine will be decided on how severe the pollution is. If a person is found littering on the beach, they will be given a less severe punishment then if a corporation is found dumping more garbage in the ocean. Cruise ships will also be fined if they are found dumping or using unsafe procedures.
 * There are really three major parts to our bill. There is the part that works with cruise ships. Cruise ships dump 25,000 gallons of human waste, 143,000 gallons of grey water (extra water from showers), laundry, the galleys, 7 tons of garbage and solid waste, 15 gallons of toxic waste, 7,000 gallons of oily bilge water. Then on top of all this, they bring non native species into new waters, hurting the eco systems.
 * Another group that we need to stop is large corporations. They often dump their waste into the oceans because it is easy and inexpensive. To stop them, we would monitor pollution levels in the ocean. When we notice a spike in these levels, we would monitor that spot, and try to find out who was dumping, after which, they would be fined heavily. The longer they have polluted and the more they polluted, the heaver the fine. There are some companies that simply have dump spots that the government knows about. We would stop them from dumping anymore waste into the ocean.
 * Our last targer spot for this bill is the beach visitor. Some people visit the beach and don’t bother cleaning up after themselves. They think it’s not that big of a deal, but it is. Things as little as those sodas six pack rings contribute to animal deaths because they get tangled in them and cannot free themselves. Then, if you just leave a plastic bag, it can get into the ocean. To turtles, they look like their favorite food, jellyfish, and when they eat them, they are harming themselves. Then, as people litter more, other people will follow there lead and keep littering until it is no longer a nice clean beach, it is more like a dump.
 * Our fine system is pretty simple. The fine depends on four different factors:
 * 1) How long have they been polluting
 * 2) How dangerous the stuff is they have been dumping
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">How much they polluted
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Have they been caught polluting before

The money it will cost for this bill is dependent on the amount of jobs we will create. We are looking to create a number of jobs across the coasts of surveillance. We are looking also to gain advertisement. We need to spread the world of what people are doing to the environment by being lazy. For advertising, we are planning to have celebrities in commercials about environmental awareness. We believe that if people see their role models trying to correct this problem we have made, they will also.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Jobs (per person, per year)..............................................................................................................................................$45,000


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Celebrity endorsement (commercials, adds, etc.)..............................................................................................................$2.5 million


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Beach cleaning equipment and transportation...................................................................................................................$2 million


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Surveillance system(Cameras set up at life guard station when personel is not on duty)......................................................$1.5 million