71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
 
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 LC 3223
 
                  House Concurrent Resolution 9
 
Sponsored by Representative JOHNSON
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Commemorates two-year anniversary of approval of Columbia River
Bar Pilots' historic proposal establishing combination of
helicopter and high speed pilot boat pilotage system at mouth of
Columbia River.
 
                      CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
  Whereas the Columbia River Bar Pilots were established in 1846
and have made important contributions throughout their history to
safe and efficient navigation across the Columbia River Bar; and
  Whereas the Columbia River Bar is universally acknowledged as
the most dangerous heavily trafficked bar crossing in the world
and commonly known as the 'Graveyard of the Pacific'; and
  Whereas the Columbia River Bar Pilots Association has,
throughout its history, regularly and continually integrated new
technology into its pilotage system; and
  Whereas those technological advances over more than 150 years
have included changes from sail to steam to diesel-powered pilot
boats; and
  Whereas the Columbia River Bar Pilots Association in the last
two years has successfully introduced the most technologically
advanced pilotage system in the United States consisting of the
combination of a helicopter and a high speed, jet-powered pilot
boat; and
  Whereas this new pilotage system both improves vessel, pilot
and environmental safety and enhances commerce on the Columbia
River; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  That we, the members of the Seventy-first Legislative Assembly,
congratulate the Columbia River Bar Pilots Association and the
Oregon Board of Maritime Pilots on the successful implementation
of a pioneering pilot transfer system, the first of its kind in
the United States, which has significantly increased public
safety on the Columbia River Bar pilotage ground with significant
benefits to navigation and the prevention of economic and
environmental catastrophe.
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