PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THE ERROR IN THIS PREVIOUS MESSAGE.

The alert, about the Air Quality bill, which you received on Friday and was
cited in this email subject line... Re: [Fwd: hf2552-action alert-CLEAR THE
AIR]...

had the wrong bill number!

It should have been H.F. 2523, the Air Quality bill.

HF 2552 is a bill that we DO support.  If you contacted anyone as a result
of the earlier message, please correct it.

----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Winterwood <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:54 AM
Subject: hf2552-action alert-CLEAR THE AIR


> Please ask Governor Vilsack to veto HF 2552
>
> state regulations proposed in this bill
> would not
> allow the state to regulate beyond standards currently
> in place by the
> EPA.
> These standards serve as a baseline from which Iowa
> should work. This
> bill
> makes those standards the ceiling, rather than the
> floor.
>
> The bill attempts 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.
>
> Please also send a message to the Governor as we will
> likely have to
> depend
> on him to veto this legislation.
>
> The Governor's email is: [log in to unmask]

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