URGENT ACTION NEEDED Thursday April 24, 2003 Call or email your Representative immediately and ask them to oppose Joint Resolution 10 that would nullify the CAFO air quality rules for hydrogen sulfide and ammonia that were approved by the Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) this past Monday. These rules adopt ambient air quality standards for these two toxic compounds to protect public health as recommended by the joint Iowa State University and University of Iowa CAFO Air Quality study completed last year. The rules approved by the EPC do not implement all the recommendations of the CAFO Air Quality Study - acute standards for hydrogen sulfide and ammonia were recommended by the study but were not included in the EPC rules and the rules did not included air quality standards for odor. However these rules are an important first step to address the serious health problems experienced by neighbors of many large concentrated livestock operations We expect the House to debate this action today so call or email your representative as soon as possible - calls are preferred to be sure you get your message across. If this passes the House, it will go to the Senate next, so if you have time contact your Senator also. We need to flood the legislative switchboards!!!! To find your legislator and get their contact information, go to < http://www4.legis.state.ia.us/find-leg>. Or you can call the House switchboard at (515)281-3221 and the Senate switchboard is (515)281-3371. Erin E. Jordahl Director, Iowa Chapter Sierra Club 3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280 Des Moines, IA 50310 515-277-8868 [log in to unmask] www.iowa.sierraclub.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask]