Obama administration blocks New Jersey's rock salt shipment

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NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- New Jersey officials say they've been unsuccessful getting a federal waiver to allow shipment of 40,000 tons of rock salt to the state before the next snowfall.

The salt is sitting at a port in Maine but New Jersey officials need a federal waiver to the Jones Act that requires port-to-port shipments arrive on a vessel flying a U.S. flag, the Record in Hackensack, N.J., reported Sunday.

Without the waiver, State Department of Transportation spokesman Joe Dee said, the state will have to send smaller, slower barges to haul the shipment to New Jersey, Dee said.

Last week, New Jersey Transportation Commissioner Jim Simpson said during a radio interview a ship in Maine could carry the entire load to Newark within two days, but cannot do so because it isn't flying under a U.S. flag. Simpson said the nearest U.S.-flagged vessel would take about a month to deliver the shipment.

"We've been going back and forth with the feds," Simpson said. "This is the kind of stuff we're dealing with. Even government, the federal government, gets in the way."

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2014/02/17/New-Jerseys-rock-salt-held-up-at-Maine-port-because-of-maritime-law/UPI-21271392660325/

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Edited February 18, 2014 by Porterhouse

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NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- New Jersey officials say they've been unsuccessful getting a federal waiver to allow shipment of 40,000 tons of rock salt to the state before the next snowfall.

The salt is sitting at a port in Maine but New Jersey officials need a federal waiver to the Jones Act that requires port-to-port shipments arrive on a vessel flying a U.S. flag, the Record in Hackensack, N.J., reported Sunday.

Without the waiver, State Department of Transportation spokesman Joe Dee said, the state will have to send smaller, slower barges to haul the shipment to New Jersey, Dee said.

Last week, New Jersey Transportation Commissioner Jim Simpson said during a radio interview a ship in Maine could carry the entire load to Newark within two days, but cannot do so because it isn't flying under a U.S. flag. Simpson said the nearest U.S.-flagged vessel would take about a month to deliver the shipment.

"We've been going back and forth with the feds," Simpson said. "This is the kind of stuff we're dealing with. Even government, the federal government, gets in the way."

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2014/02/17/New-Jerseys-rock-salt-held-up-at-Maine-port-because-of-maritime-law/UPI-21271392660325/

It's going to be 75 here tomorrow and Thur

Who cares

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Looks like the feds declined the waiver. The Chicago mafia strikes again.

Joe Dee, a spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Transportation, said a barge is on its way to Maine to pick up 9,500 tons of a

40,000-ton shipment.

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The state tried to receive a federal waiver from the Jones Act to have a foreign-flagged ship at a port in Maine bring the entire shipment to Newark, N.J. However, Dee said the federal government declined to grant the waiver.

The barge is Plan B.

"Our job was to get it down here," Dee said.

The barge is slower and will cost more money to make repeated trips to get the rest of the salt, which will also be shared with New Jersey municipalities, Dee said.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/winter_budget_low_on_salt/23542080

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It's racist because salt is white.

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Looks like the feds declined the waiver. The Chicago mafia strikes again.

Ice season is about over up there ?