Show Parks Adopt Boating Codes Secretary of the Interior Stewart L Udall has announced announced ed approval of two separate boating codes for the National Park Service One code ap- ap applies applies plies to national recreation areas where the full potential of 01 public use is encouraged The other applies to nation nation- national al parks and monuments and andI andall I all other units of the National I Park System which have quiet or wilderness character and andare andare are preserved to protect these qualities of quietude FOR EXAMPLE Secretary Udall noted motorboats con to be prohibited on certain certain tain isolated lakes and streams within parks parIes but will willI continue to be permitted in I recreation areas Each boating code within its own affected areas is in- in intended intended tended to consolidate boating regulations now In effect pro pro- provide vIde uniformity In application tion delete obsolete regula- regula regulations regulations and parallel US Coast CoastGuard CoastGuard Guard laws and regulations to navigable waters The origInal proposals pub pub- published published in the Federal Register on February 14 1984 1964 were reconsidered in the light of public response and several changes resulted A proposal for establishing a minimum age limit for operation of certain vessels was deleted as was a proposed requIrement for children less than 14 years of age to wear a saving life device I THE NEW regulations also continue the same requirements as before con operation of sanitary systems in vessels The Park Service dropped a proposal that would have required the systems to be made inoperable inoperable able before launching of the boat in park waters or would have required the wastes to tobe tobe be retained in a tank and dis- dis disposed disposed posed of only onshore PrIncipal amendments ap ap- ap approved proved d by Secretary Udall in elude a numbering system for all vessels propelled by I machinery of more than 10 horsepower and adoption of reasonable and practicable safety regulations |