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Andrews said the stand was shut down last Sunday for not having the permit, costing up to $1,520 per day, to operate on NCC-owned property. The NCC eventually waived the fee before they issued the permit.

The girls being asked to leave wasn’t “confrontational” but was done in the most polite way, Andrews added.

“They’ve been nothing but accommodating to us throughout this whole process,” he said.

Andrews did say he believes the NCC should simplify the process to obtain a permit for a lemonade stand run by children. The NCC said Tuesday it would review its policies to “facilitate youth entrepreneurship, commercial and philanthropic activities on its lands in the future.”

Andrews also said the NCC should be less “risk-adverse” when it comes to child-run lemonade stands, adding the conditions of the permit are a litttle “hard around the edges.”

“In the event that something did happen, they are the federal government, after all, versus a family,” he said. “They are basically laying all the liability on the family.”

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