Jim--the confusion comes from the fact that DNR's water quality standards
RULES went before the 10-member Legislative Administrative Rules Review
Committee (ARRC) Monday, and those Legislators on the ARRC let these new DNR
rules stand.

However, there is also a BILL (SF 2363) before the entire Legislative body
that could be harmful to the implementation of DNR's rules on water quality
standards, it confuses the issue, delays the process--and it is unnecessary.

Jane Clark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Redmond, Jim" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: please clarify Water Quality Alert < Take Action Now


Is SF2363 innocuous, harmful, or helpful.  Today's messages point in
different directions.
Jim

-----Original Message-----

From: Lyle Krewson, Sierra Club Chapter Lobbyist

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!

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