NASBLA Headquarters Report

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NASBLA Headquarters Report

• BLA Workshop
• March 28, 2007

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Top Priorities for FY07

• 75/25 Federal Match
• Director of Government Affairs Dude in DC
• Building a Homeland Security Program
• Training and Certification Committee Marketing
  and Outreach Committee
• Standard 8 and the Course Approval Process

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A Brief History of NASBLA Administration

• 50 Years in 5 Minutes

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The Sixties

• First meeting held in Chicago in 1960
• Idea of national organization takes shape
• 1961 - working group agreed on a name
• National Conference of State Boating
  Administrators
• 1962 - name changed to NASBLA
• 1963 - adoption of a constitution and bylaws,
• election of first President, Harold Bradshaw
  MI

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The Seventies

• NASBLA Goes to Washington (Part 1)

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The Eighties

• Council of State Governments (CSG)
• Provides administrative, meeting support,
• accounting,
• grant work

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The Nineties

• George Stewart begins the decade as the Director
  of Government Affairs, later named NASBLAs 2nd
  Executive Director
• John Johnson Staff Director w/ CSG
• Grants grow from 50k to 500k annually
• Small Craft Advisory born in Seattle - OEP

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A New Century

• NASBLA Hires Staff
• Board Governance
• Strategic Planning

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The Next 50 Years

• NASBLA Goes to Washington (Part 2)
• DC Office opened in the Hall of the States
• Government Affairs Committee elevated to policy
  committee status
• NASBLA hires Director of Govt Affairs

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Executive Board Internal Initiatives

• Board Self Assessments
• Employment Policy
• Defining Roles of Board and CEO
• Fund-raising Strategy
• Training for Committee Chairs
• Prospective Board Member Academy

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Executive Board Internal Initiatives

• Re-examining Policy Committees
• NASBLAs Role in Course Delivery
• Provider Workshop
• Task Force
• Long range planning for 50th Anniversary

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Implementing the Strategic PlanPart OneGrant
Project Status
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Accident Investigation Seminars

• Current schedule of Comprehensive seminars - two
  remaining this year (both full)
• 2008 seminars tentatively scheduled for Nevada,
  Illinois, Alabama, Montana, Ohio

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BUI Enforcement Seminars

• This years schedule of BUI seminars has one
  ongoing (Michigan) and two regular seminars
  remaining, in Montana and Indiana
• NASBLA will present the first BUI Train the
  Trainer seminar this June in Nashville,
  Tennessee

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Staged Collisions

• This is a two-year project. The first staged
• collisions will be held this fall in Virginia.

NASBLA still needs boats donated for use in
staged collisions. Anyone with possible boat
donation should contact Chris Moore at NASBLA
office.
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Field Sobriety Test Validation

• This is a multi-year project, starting 2007 and
  scheduled to be completed in 2009.
• Work began with collection of more than 550 BUI
  arrest records from 10 states. Preliminary
  results show HGN is best candidate for tests in
  marine environment.

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Boating Accident Reporting (BAR) Manual

• First draft been completed and submitted to
  BAIRAC for review and approval.
• After BAIRAC update, Coast Guard-449, Standard
  Method of Reporting, must be approved by the
  Coast Guard.

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Implementing the Strategic PlanPart
TwoCommittee Highlightsand Related Programs
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BAIRAC

• Reviewed changes to BAR Manual
• Submitted committee response to OMB Request for
  Comments on the BAR form
• Two Position Papers
• One to encourage accident investigation training
• One to encourage MOAs with federal agencies to
  ensure proper, timely reporting of accidents

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Training and Certification

• Reviewed, updated and finalized the Training
  Certification Program document
• Developing MOU with the Association of Natural
  Resources Enforcement Trainers

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Law Enforcement

• Work with NTSB on
• Model Act for Charter Boat Safety
• Develop interstate Boating Law Compact
• Develop Model Act for Diver Down flag

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Marketing Outreach

• Analyze state RBS outreach programs
• Create boater-targeted website
• Marketing campaign for voluntary PFD-wear
• Position Paper Responsible Advertising

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Paddlesports

• Develop standards for paddlesports-focused course
  (skills-based)
• Best practices for states based on paddlesports
  fatality rates
• Two Position Papers
• Paddlesports Registration
• Paddlesports PFD-Wear

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Education

• Five proposed amendments to
• Education Standards this year
• Update rationales in Standards
• Second survey of state education programs April
  2007
• Define adequate education program

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Education

• Begin collecting numbers of completed boating
  safety courses this year
• Training Module for New Education Coordinators
• Two Position Papers
• Mandatory Education
• Alternative Education

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Instructor Certification

• Partnership between NSBC and NASBLA
• Train the Trainer workshops offered
• 2-day course focused on Standards and Best
  Practices
• 5-10 minute teaching presentation
• Grant written to train additional instructors

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Course Provider Workshop

• Held January 23-25, 2007, in Lexington
• 21 participants
• Consensus decision-making process
• Terms and Conditions document created
• Parking Lot Issues Task Force and future course
  provider workshop

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Waterways Management

• The integrated use of education, technical
  assistance, regulation, enforcement, and other
  policies and programs to govern the waters of the
  state for navigation, public safety and access in
  ways that reduce conflicts, enhance the
  experience for waterway and shoreline users, and
  minimize risks to natural resources.

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Waterways Management

• Developing waterways management workshop based in
  part on A Guide for Multiple Use Waterway
  Management resubmitted grant proposal to USCG,
  Jan. 2007.
• Selecting limited number of hot topics/emerging
  issues for development of research/information
  products
• Investigating issues regarding salvage insurance
  and effects of abandoned vessels on states

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National Boater Survey

• Collaboratory of Partners (COP)
• Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

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MOE Program

• Part I Wednesday
• Workshop to train BLAs, others constructing
  measures of RBS program effectiveness
• Introduce jargon associated with measuring
  program performance and effectiveness
• Four committees developing checklists for RBS
  program areas
• Instant polling to see what you already know and
  what you really need to know

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MOE Program

• Part II Sept. 6, 2007
• You and program personnel
• Fundamental or refresher training on data
  collection and program effectiveness measurement

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Homeland Security

• Drafting legislation to provide funding to state
  marine agencies for homeland security
• Made nearly 30 Congressional visits
• Working with National Center for Port and
  Maritime Security on proposed standardized team
  typing and needs survey of marine law enforcement
  for homeland security

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Homeland Security

• Work with Center for Asymmetric Warfare to
  develop Partners on the Water DVD
• Coordinated NASBLA Memorandum of Understanding
  with NACLEC -
• National Association of Conservation Law
  Enforcement Chiefs

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Numbering and Titling

• Work with USCG on revisions to the Standard
  Numbering System (SNS) regulations
• Monitoring NCCUSL action on the UCOTA
• Recommends to NASBLA not to merge the Model Act
  for Non-Powered Vessels and the Non-Powered
  Vessels Options/Rules into one model act

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Numbering and Titling

• Coordinate with USCG on a MOU for Vessel
  Identification System (VIS)
• Updating Numbering Titling Manual

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Boats and Associated Equipment

• Developing model act regarding kite tubes,
  other towed devices
• Tracking PFD re-classification and impacts on
  state laws and programs
• Develop NASBLA comments on proposed rules for
  propeller guards, cut-off switches

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Boats and Associated Equipment

• Participate with ABYCs Product Interface
  Committee
• Developing model act on carbon monoxide accident
  mitigation and labeling

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Implementing the Strategic PlanPart
ThreeCommunications Update
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Small Craft Advisory

• New design
• Upcoming editorial calendar
• Welcome state news, photos, articles
• Ability to update mailing list

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NASBLA Websitewww.nasbla.org
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NASBLA Website

• Re-design underway
• Password-protected, BLA-only section
• Polling questions

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E-commerce

• Accident Investigation Field Guide
• Numbering Titling Manual
• NASBLA Logo wear

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Annual Conference UpdatesBurlington, Vermont

• Wednesday, Sept. 5Executive Board/
• New BLA Orientation
• Thursday, Sept. 6 Performance Measures Part II
• Friday, Sept. 7 Committee Meetings, Conference
  Opening, Presidents Reception

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Annual Conference Updates

• Saturday, Sept. 8 General Sessions
• Sunday, Sept. 9 General Sessions, Breakouts,
  Off-site
• Monday, Sept. 10 General Sessions, Awards
  Banquet

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New Calendar Updates

• Congressional Reception for Safe Boating Week --
  May 15
• Small Vessel Safety Summit -- June 19-20
• Workshop March or April 2008
• Committees March or April 2008

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New Calendar Updates

• Annual Conferences
• Burlington, VT -- September 5-10, 2007
• Clearwater, FL -- September 6-10, 2008
• Corpus Christi, TX -- September 26-30, 2009
• Honolulu, HI -- September 2010

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Workforce Update

• Officer Manager Position Filled
• Sam Lynch from CLEAR
• Contractors and Consultants
• Nearly Two Dozen (Joan, Deb, Jim, Gary, Randy,
  Charlie, Tyson, Miles, Richard, Nick, Tim, Kim,
  Bob, Gary, Curtis Deane, Sonnenshien, SCRI, CPS)

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Bylaws and Resolutions

• Appeals Panel
• Further Define Member-at-Large Term
• National Transportation Safety Board 40th

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FY08 Coast Guard Proposals

• RBS Partnering Grant
• Accident Investigation Seminars
• BUI Detection and Enforcement Seminars
• Validation of Standardized FSTs for Use in the
  Marine Environment
• Waterways Management Exchange
• Needs Assessment for State RBS Programs
• National Registry of Boating Education
  Certificate Holders
• Boating Safety Education Instructor Training
  Module
• Navigation Rules Training Module for Marine
  Enforcement Officers
• Train-the-Trainer PWC Law Enforcement Training
  Course