Fellow Sierrans:

As you know, the Water Quality bill was amended and passed the Senate on
Tuesday evening. The Senate struck everything after the enacting clause, and
completely re-wrote the bill. It is much improved from the original version,
although with remaining concerns.

The Senate amendments did at least these changes:

³and² to ³or² in the definition of Credible Data -- this was a major victory
for our side; 

removed the pre-approval requirement for credible data from volunteer
monitoring programs -- the second major victory for our side;

requires ³collaboration² between DNR and DOT concerning wetlands --
innocuous as they certainly already do this;

wetlands mitigation must give priority to mitigation in the same watershed
-- a significant victory;

other miscellaneous change.

Following is the URL for SF 2371 as amended and passed by the Senate, the
complete new language (obviously much language is the same, with modest
tweaks):

http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/Legislation/SF/02300/SF02371/Current.ht
ml

It is certainly an improved bill. We will all be working closely on it in
the House, where I worry more about weakening than strengthening amendments.
The House can be a 'tougher nut' on these issues.

Lyle

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Lyle Krewson
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Des Moines, IA 50322-2862

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