We particularily need e-mails or letters to the
following representatives on the Air Quality bill:

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In the House ask your representative to vote for
HR2538
which transfers $17.5 million from the Rebuild Iowa
Infrastructure Fund(RIIF) to the Environment First
Fund

In the Senate ask your senator to vote for SF2271
which
mandates that utilities to purchase 10% renewables  by
2007,15% by 2009 and purchase 20% renewables by 2021
Ask them to strengthen the bill by rquiring rural
co-operatives to do the same and by adding energy
conservation measures.

Charlie Winterwood
State Legislative Chair

--- Lyle Krewson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ALERT: Please email or call your State Senator and
> State Representative
> about the following bills. Tell them the bill is an
> egregious response to
> the air quality issue around Concentrated Animal
> Feeding Operations [CAFOs].
>
> This is the issue of Hydrogen Sulfide and Ammonia
> emissions, which are the
> prime components of the odor problem and which
> create serious health threats
> to people who breathe...and who are at risk of
> respiratory health problems.
>
> The bills attempt to:
>
>     1. Remove the DNR authority to promulgate
> standards for pollutants for
> which the federal EPA does not have
> standards...i.e., mercury and sulfur
> dioxide, as two prime examples. [Section 1 of the
> bills.]
>
>     2. Sets the hydrogen sulfide standard at
> significantly higher than twice
> that recommended by the DNR last year...or by the
> most recent research done
> by the Federal HHS, ATSDR bureau, for the World
> Health Organization.
>
>     3. Sets the ammonia standard at significantly
> higher than twice what the
> DNR recommended last year...and for far longer term
> exposures.
>
> In the Senate the bill number is S.F. 2267, on the
> Calendar, and in the
> House, the number is H.F. 2523 on the Calendar. They
> are companion bills.
>
> These bills can be debated anytime soon, we do not
> know precisely when as
> yet, so your quick response will help to slow them
> or stop them. Whatever
> you send to your legisalators, please also send to
> the Governor as we will
> likely have to depend on him to veto this
> legislation.
>
> The Governor's email is:
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>
> Legislator emails can be found at:
>  Senate:
>
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Senate/Members/04Senate.html
>  House:
>
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/House/Members/04House.html
>
> House switchboard is: 515-281-3221
> Senate switchboard is: 515-281-3371
>
> This bill is a serious threat to the DNR's ability
> to protect the public
> health of all people, and especially all people who
> live in proximity to
> CAFOs.
>
> Lyle
> ___________________________________________________
> Lyle Krewson
> 6403 Aurora Avenue #3
> Des Moines, IA 50322-2862
>
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>
> 515/276-8947 - Ofc/Res
> 515/238-7113 - Cel
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