71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
 
 
                            Enrolled
 
                  House Concurrent Resolution 9
 
Sponsored by Representative JOHNSON
 
 
  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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                                 Adopted by House April 12, 2001
 
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                                      Chief Clerk of House
 
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                                        Speaker of House
 
 
                                 Adopted by Senate May 22, 2001
 
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                                       President of Senate
 
 
 
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