From Iowa Environmental Council, forwarded by Jane Clark


The Groundwater Protection Fund is on the verge of being raided ONCE
AGAIN!  Contact your senator now!

The Standing Appropriations Bill, HF 755, de-appropriates the
Groundwater Protection Fund (GWPF)!  The bill says that any
"unobligated or unencumbered" funds left in the GWPF as of June 30,
2001, will be transfered to the state General Fund.

The Legislature has already raided the GWPF once this current fiscal
year to fund a low-income energy assistance program.   Another
proposal (the Ag/DNR Budget bill) would take $350,000 from the
Leopold Center's share of the GWPF fund for next fiscal year.

The language in the Standing Appropriations Bill, if approved, would
affect ALL the programs funded through the GWPF.

WHAT TO DO:  Contact your state senator NOW and urge him/her to
protect the Groundwater Protection Fund.   Our groundwater is too
important -- we need clean water in this state, and the GWPF is how
we work to ensure clean water.

You can call your Senator at 515/281-3771 (Senate switchboard). Your
legislator's email address is <[log in to unmask]>.
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information, visit
<http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Members/79GA-members.html>.  Send a cc
of your letter to the Iowa Environmental Council at
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For more information, contact the Iowa Environmental Council at
515/244-1194.

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Iowa Environmental Council
711 East Locust Street
Des Moines, Iowa  50309
515/244-1194 phone
515/244-7856 fax
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