Hi everyone,

Probably you heard this already, but on Tuesday Governor Culver signed the bill regulating liquid manure applications in winter. On principle, it's bad for the legislature to circumvent DNR rule-making, but then again, the bill turned out to be better than the DNR rules would have been in many respects.

Culver also vetoed a section of the agriculture and natural resources appropriations bill that would have delayed for another year the implementation of the bill on septic tank inspections, which passed during the 2008 session. More details here:
 
http://tinyurl.com/m3c7eq

Does anyone happen to know who tried to slip that provision into the appropriations bill at the 11th hour? If you do, I'd like to know. If you don't feel comfortable circulating the information on this list, you can e-mail me confidentially at [log in to unmask]

Thanks,

Laurie

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