From: Lyle Krewson
Subject: HF2688 up for Senate debate

The Senate Majority Leader  gave the list of bills for today. It includes HF 
2688, the Odor Control Bill--please contact your State Senator now!
We do have amendments being offered but no amendments were included during 
House debate last week.

ACTION NEEDED:
We need you to contact your State Senator to vote NO on HF2688. Below is a 
sample email that you may personalize--always be sure to include your name 
and mailing address on an email to a Legislator.

You may find your Iowa State Senator by going to this weblink and using your 
address or 9-digit ZIP code: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/FindLeg/

If you wish to call your State Senator, the switchboard # is: 515-281-3371.


The ODOR CONTROL bill seeks to:


Provide for the establishment and administration of efforts to mitigate odor 
emitted from livestock operations involving swine, beef or dairy cattle, 
chickens, or turkeys. The bill is divided into a research effort to reduce 
the impact of odor and an evaluation effort to assist in siting new 
livestock operations. The efforts are to be conducted by Iowa state 
university in consultation with the department of agriculture and land 
stewardship and the department of natural resources.


        - IT DOES NOT, however, require research into the health effects of 
the odor or air pollution from the facilities.


One purpose of the bill is to accelerate the adoption of affordable and 
effective odor mitigation technologies and strategies by livestock 
producers.

        - YOU as a neighbor may not see this research result, which as a 
taxpayer you may be asked to fund.


A second purpose of the bill is to develop a livestock odor mitigation 
evaluation effort which determines the potential odor exposure to persons 
who would be a neighbor to a new livestock operation as proposed to be 
constructed. The bill provides that the effort is contingent upon moneys 
being appropriated to the university to conduct the effort.


        - THE CAFO INDUSTRY wants you as a taxpayer to fund the research and 
install the technologies at their facilities to be used from then on.

The livestock odor mitigation evaluation effort provides for three levels of 
possible participation by a person who requests the evaluation, 
corresponding to the complexity of the proposed site of construction, and 
provides for an increasing degree of involvement by the person and the 
university.


        - THE RESEARCH is good, but you pay! I n other states the industry 
has been required to pay all or part of similar research, research we could 
be applying in Iowa NOW.

SO...taxpayers could be funding the research, they get the technology, and 
you may not get the research results. And in the end, after the research 
there is still no requirement that the results actually be required, or made 
applicable in the future!


Any questions may be referred to our lobbyist  at [log in to unmask]  .


Sierra Club has an established policy against the proliferation of 
improperly regulated CAFOs, and has sought for years to improve the 
monitoring and regulation of air pollution and its health effects. In Iowa 
that has been a continuing and difficult, not yet fully achieved, struggle.


A top priority policy principle for the Sierra Club is that the polluter 
should bear the primary cost of mitigating pollution from their actions or 
operations. This is a long-standing position. We seek that on this issue 
too.


SAMPLE LETTER or Email - please re-phrase it into your own words!


Dear Senator:


Please oppose legislation that would encourage further development of 
inadequately regulated Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in Iowa.


The industry is already heavily subsidized by pollution equipment tax 
credits and liability shielding those facilities from 'nuisance lawsuits.'


If HF 2688 is enacted as it passed the House, it


        - Does not require research into the health effects of the odor or 
air pollution from the facilities.
        - As a neighbor and concerned Iowan, I may not be able to see this 
research result, nor is it required to be implemented in the end.
        - and as a taxpayer, the CAFO industry wants me a to fund the 
research, and install the technologies at their facilities to be used from 
then on.



In other states the industry has been required to pay all or part of similar 
research, research we could be applying in Iowa NOW.


SO...I fund the research, they get the technology, and citizens do not get 
the research results. And in the end, after the research there is still no 
requirement that the results actually be required, or made applicable in the 
future!


Your NO vote on HF2688, the ODOR CONTROL bill this year is critical.  This 
is so important to Iowa and our future; and important to me as an Iowan. I 
do not want further delay in protecting Iowans from the health effects and 
odor of emissions from confined animal feeding operations. And I do not want 
my tax dollars paying an operator to fix a problem that operator created.


Sincerely,


(Your Signature block)

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