URGENT ACTION NEEDED
Thursday  April 24, 2003

Call or email your Representative immediately and ask them to oppose Joint 
Resolution 10 that would nullify the CAFO air quality rules for hydrogen 
sulfide and ammonia that were approved by the Environmental Protection 
Commission (EPC) this past Monday.  These rules adopt ambient air quality 
standards for these two toxic compounds to protect public health as 
recommended by the joint Iowa State University and University of Iowa CAFO 
Air Quality study completed last year.  The rules approved by the EPC  do not 
implement all the recommendations of the CAFO Air Quality Study - acute 
standards for hydrogen sulfide and ammonia were recommended by the study but 
were not included in the EPC rules and the rules did not included air quality 
standards for odor.  However these rules are an important first step to 
address the serious health problems experienced by neighbors of many large 
concentrated livestock operations


We expect the House to debate this action today so call or email your 
representative as soon as possible - calls are preferred to be sure you get 
your message across.  If this passes the House, it will go to the Senate 
next, so if you have time contact your Senator also.  We need to flood the 
legislative  switchboards!!!! 


To find your legislator and get their contact information, go to <
http://www4.legis.state.ia.us/find-leg>.  Or you can call the House 
switchboard at (515)281-3221 and the Senate switchboard is (515)281-3371. 



Erin E. Jordahl
Director, Iowa Chapter Sierra Club
3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280
Des Moines, IA 50310
515-277-8868
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www.iowa.sierraclub.org

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