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Show The Enterprise Review, July 7, 1976 Page 8b Sailing Enthusiasts Boost Business FredS. Ball is the Executive Vice President Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Boating on the Great Salt Lake has increased in popularity. Clint Baty, manager of Silver Sands Marina on the lake, said he has sold 50 KEEP IT MOVING! If you want to keep your business moving, the Review can help. If you're running a business, you cant afford to be uninformed. The more familiar you are with your total business environment, the better able youll be to take advantage of its opportunities. Because the Review is a specialized publication, we can provide our readers with the most complete, accurate, and diverse reports about the Utah business scene. Growth centers, sales tips, retailing information, advertising analyses, real estate, finance, investment opportunities, industrv trends, legislation, management problems (and solutions) and more. Its all in the Utah Enterprise Review each week. Utah business is on the move. Move with it. SUBSCRIBE TODAY (you afford jraotto lJ j-ea- Yes, please send me the Utah Enterprise Review. Enclosed is an $24.00 check to cover my one-yesubscription. P.O. Box 11778, Salt' Lake City, Utah 84147. ar Name Company Name. T Address City State. Zip Ball Speaks percent more boats this year than he did last year. Four or five years ago, there was no sailing on the lake. Now we have 250-30- 0 boats sailing on a regular The basis, Baty said. growth is terrific. He said marina business has increased 15 percent this year over last year so far, and he anticipates it to have increased by 25 percent by year end. The long range plan for the marina includes a major expansion within the next 18 But right now we months. are making improvements on the existing dock conditions, Baty said. Being part of a State Park, the marina is dependent e on the state to do improvements of the shoreline. The State will do the heavy expansion, dredging, Baty said. Later, he would add more docks, he said. The marina is full, said We have no more Baty. room for large boats. Because people take the smaller boats home and dont store them at the lake over the winter, people continue buying the smaller boats, he said. off-sit- OSHA - SEC - FCC - CAB - NLRB - EEOC and others like them are a common part EPA - ICC - - Those initials of todays business vernacular. Government regulations are faster than a speeding bullet, and more powerful than any local government, able to leap 220 million lives. in a single bound i.e.- the supper agency has taken over the American government. How effective are they?? Bureaucrats at the Consumer Products Safety Commission ordered 80,000 brightly colored lapel buttons to remind parents to purchase safe toys for their children. Before the buttons could be distributed, an obscure inspector realized that they were colored with lead paint and, if licked by children, could cause lead poisoning. So, the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned all 80,000 of its own safety buttons. Increasingly, it seems, Washington calls upon the nations to pay for such foolishness. The right hand of the countrys regulators, commissioners, inspectors and other assorted agency watchdogs doesnt know what its left hand it doing. As it becomes more pounderous and expensive, government also becomes more ineffective. The super agency bureaucrat is not an industry specialist - he is a crusader. And each bureaucrat from each agency seems to think his crusade is the most important one. This leads to interesting problems. The Food and Drug Administration is extremely concerned that deadly South American fire ants may swarm up from Mexico and reach as far north as Philadelphia. So, planners at Agriculture developed an emergency control program, only to be prohibited by the Environmental Protection Agency from using the only pesticide known to be effective against the fire ants. U.S. Steel was forced by EPA to construct a special 3.7 million dollar hood to trap fumes from the coke ovens. Now planners have discovered that power plants for the 800 horsepower fans inside the hood will cause more pollution than the original coke ovens. And OSHA inspectors say the hood produces a noisy, unsafe working environment. And the Commerce Department complains about rising steel prices and on and on. Ridiculous? Yes, and there are more such examples. The Food and Drug Administration requires g plants to be clean and sanitary. Surfaces easiest to clean are usually tile or stainless steel. But tile and stainless steel reflect noise, and frequently fail to meet the standards of OSHA. Occupational Safety and Health Regulations states that women need lounge facilities in their rest rooms. But the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission says that if an employer provides lounges for women he must also provide them for men. 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