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.

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