[datricker]

The page the link points to is gone - was this a spoof? Thats beyond dumb for anyone in any organization.

[laplata]

The page the link points to is gone - was this a spoof? Thats beyond dumb for anyone in any organization.

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Seven years ago I would have thought it was a spoof. Not now.

[blackdog]

I doubt it. I have had one government agency require a good or service to a specification (by law), and had a different government agency demand we not produce the goods or services (by law), with each imposing a fine, one for failing to meet delivery and the other for meeting delivery.

And you wonder why a toilet seat costs $600? Try producing something for the DOD which must be made to a MIL-SPEC, which the EPA has banned?! Defense procurement on one phone line screaming for delivery and the EPA sending you threatening letters with fines for producing the item/s.

The only way to resolve it is to send a company representative to the appropriate congressman who sits on the EPA oversight committee and place a bag of cash in the right place.

Try making a marine paint which has required additives to prevent fouling with mussels, barnacles, and other organisms which foul the hull below the water line? A paint by the way required for application by the military.