Iowa Sierrans and Friends:
From: Lyle Krewson, Sierra Club Chapter Lobbyist
ALERT FOLLOWUP: The bill very likely will come up for debate in the Senate
tomorrow, Thursday. Please take your action before Noon tomorrow, if you
have not already. Below is the alert language from yesterday.
Thanks. Lyle
Environmentalists win Round One!
Water Quality Rules approved by Administrative Rules Review Committee.
Next Action Needed!
Email or call your Senator now. Ask them to vote "No" on SF 2363 the Water
Quality Standards bill. Tell them you do not need this legislation,
you want them to allow the Water Quality Standards rules promulgated by the
Iowa Department of Natural Resources to take effect as approved by the
Administrative Rules Review Committee earlier this week. Those rules bring
Iowa into compliance with the federal Clean Water Act for the first time in
30 years...one of the final 5-6 states to come into compliance.
This water quality bill is the big issue of the 2006 Session for Sierra
Club! It's the issue you have been reading about in the Iowa
Sierran newsletter, which is now also posted on our website at
http://iowa.sierraclub.org and in the Des Moines Register and other Iowa
papers, in the recent months.
Emphasize that you want Iowa to be in compliance with good water quality
standards as enforced by the federal EPA. The rules do that.
Remind them that you and your children want clean streams and lakes for
recreation, quality of life, and for drinking water sources. The rules set
that into motion.
So, email or call them now, tell them we do not need this legislation, and
that we need to allow the rules promulgated by the Iowa Department of
Natural Resources to take effect as passed. No legislative action should
impede the implementation. That is the central message.
Tell them you support a funding mechanism, state grants and loans, to assist
communities in attaining compliance with their waste water treatment
systems. You want progress soon!
And, !Thank You!" For taking action.
Email Senators via this link to their email addresses:
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/aspx/Legislators/SenateEmail.aspx
OR, call Senators via the Senate Switchboard - 515/281-3371, or call them at
their home, if it is the weekend, Friday - Sunday.
Lyle Krewson
Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter Lobbyist
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6403 Aurora Avenue #3
Des Moines, IA 50322-2862
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