• Winter Boat Show H4493
• Preserving Outer Brewster H4500
• Opposing Boater Fees H4760
• Patriot Act & Secure Customer Data Management
• BoatUS Grassroots Lobbying Toolkit
• Massachusetts Boater Information Pipeline
• Action Alert: Urge The Senate To Consider Water Resources Legislation
• Reminders & Links of Interest

Thanks from Outer Brewster.

On behalf of the Coalition, we want to take a moment to extend our deepest thanks to the dozens of organizations that make up our coalition, to the hundreds of individuals, advocates, activists, and community organizations who led the grassroots organizing efforts, to the thousands of people who signed our petitions or made phone calls, and the scores of elected officials who joined us in opposing HB 4500. We intend to continue our campaign to help decision makers and the public understand the impacts of the proposal to site the nation's largest LNG terminal and storage depot in the Boston Harbor Islands national park. Thanks again for your support of our efforts to protect Outer Brewster Island and the Boston Harbor Islands national park. We will be in touch.

1. Sign the back of your credit cards with "ASK FOR ID" instead of your signature, to increase the chances that someone who steals your wallet will be unable to use your credit cards unless they look like you physically; cancel the cards as soon as you know they have been stolen. Most companies will send replacement cards overnight mail anywhere in the world.

2. Always keep a record of unwritten check numbers separate from your checkbook or unwritten checks, so that if checks are stolen, you can have the bank decline just the stolen ones without having to cancel your whole checking account and causing problems with the legitimate checks you've already signed and conveyed to a legitimate payee;

3. Upon learning of theft of your credit cards, checks or other personal financial data, immediately report the theft to the local police, even if you have no hope of recovering anything or catching the thief, because you will need a copy of the police report. You will need a police report to attach to your own affidavits to any companies at which the thief opens accounts under your name. You will also need a police report for your insurance;

4. Finally, consider filing a Fraud Alert letter with each of the three major credit agencies (Equifax; Experian; and TransUnion) to require that no new credit accounts be opened in your name for six months unless you give confirming oral approval at the phone contact you specify in your letter.

• Is a boat ramp closure being considered in your neighborhood?
• Is your municipal marina going to be sold?
• Does your town or county need public support to fund a new boating project?

1) Dial (202) 224-3121 (the U.S. Capitol Switchboard) or (202) 224-3135 (the office of the Majority Leader, Senator Bill Frist).
2) Please state your name and where you are from.
3) Say something like: Water Resources (boating recreation areas, ports or locks & dams, beach renourishment, or the environment) are crucial to the lives of everyday Americans. (Feel free to offer info on why it is important to you.) We can't afford to wait any longer for passage of WRDA. I would like to urge Sen. Frist to schedule floor time for the Water Resources Development Act of 2006 before the Memorial Day recess. If you would like to reach me for further information, you can contact me at (phone number or e-mail address.)