b'HOW PVA HELPED MEReading Your FOGHORNAs a result, I will soon have 4 brand-new tier 3 Caterpillar engines Pays Big Dividends for the Spirit of Ethan Allen III. Had it not been for my PVA membership and for my diligence in reading my By Mike Shea, Green Mountain Boat Line FOGHORN, I doubt that this sequence M y company, Green MountainAgencys Diesel Emission Grantof events would have happened. So to my fellow PVA members, read your Boat Line of Burlington, VTProgram. That piqued my interest. IFOGHORN. And to everyone at PVA, (www.soea.com), has beencalled Ed for follow-up information,thank you very, very much! na PVA vessel member for more thanthen traveled to last falls 2018 PVA three decades. We offer sightseeing,Original Colonies Region meetingEditors Note: Several PVA members have successfully competed for engine repower-dinner and private cruises on beautifulin Boston for a presentation on theing funding that is offered as a result of the Lake Champlain. I cant always get tosubject. After doing an extensivenationwide Volkswagen Emissions lawsuit the PVA conventions and meetings,amount of homework, I submitted asettlement. Funds in the Volkswagen Trust but I diligently read my FOGHORNproposal to repower my vessel to theFund are allocated to state environmental magazine each month when it arrives.Vermont Department of Environmentalprotection agencies. Proposals for funding I hope you do too, and I want to assureConservation. On October 11, 2019, Imust be submitted to the agency responsible for the state in which the vessel operates.A you that doing so can pay off big time! received notice of a grant award thatsimilar program involves competitive grants In the March 2018 issue ofstated, I am pleased to inform you thatoffered yearly by the U.S. Environmental FOGHORN, I read Ed Welchs leg- the Selection Committee has elected toProtection Agency with money authorized by islative column on the nationwideaward up to $268,000 (the maximumthe Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA). Volkswagen emissions legal settlementallowable cost share of 40%) for the re- For further details about this possible funding sources, please contact Ed Welch or Jen Wilk at and the Environmental Protectionplacement of marine vessel engines.PVA Headquarters.NOVEMBER 2019FOGHORN 37'