Creating A Proactive Partnership For Clean Boating In Texas

	Speaker:
	Dewayne Hollin Marine Business Extension Specialist Texas Sea Grant Extension Program
	Description: Providing clean water for inland and coastal boating activities is a good business practice for about 360 Texas recreational marinas. The Clean Texas Marina Program is a proactive partnership between government, industry and extension designed to encourage marinas, boatyards and boaters to use simple, innovative solutions to keep Texas coastal and inland waterway resources clean. The Program recognizes ?Clean Marinas? through an awards program, and conducts outreach activities to further promote environmentally responsible marina and boating practices. The basic goal of the Program is pollution prevention by making marinas, boatyards and boaters more aware of environmental laws, rules and jurisdictions, and to get marinas to follow best management practices and be designated ?Clean Marinas.? The Clean Texas Marina Program is a joint project of the Texas Sea Grant Extension Program, Marina Association of Texas, Texas General Land Office (GLO) and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). We will use a case study driven group discussion to show how Texas Sea Grant Extension personnel serving as a neutral broker created the partnership and gained industry participation with government to meet program objectives. Extension personnel serve as the administrator for the program and use a marina industry advisory committee made up of both government and industry to shape policy for the program. The learning objectives will include recognition of partnership principles used in the Texas case study and how they might compare to other cases in Florida and California. We will highlight pollution prevention methods that work in the recreational industry and how to get consumers (boaters) to become part of the process. A short questionnaire will be used to collect feedback from the audience after the program. Note: This session should be integrated with case studies from California and Florida.