October 14, 2008 11:35AM 

# Once in a Blue Moon: A Regulation Repealed 

By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) 

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Freedom is blossoming across the land — er, off the coast of Florida — as a law requiring salvagers there to have a license has been [repealed](http://www.washingtonwatch.com/blog/2008/10/14/stunning-a-regulation-repealed/).

Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida is the one who took a scythe to the regulatory underbrush (or kelp, I suppose). Republican John Mica of Florida’s 7th District introduced the [companion bill](http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_4542.html) in the House.

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