ALERT: Please email or call your State Senator about HF 2267, the air
quality bill, and ask him or her to vote NO. Tell your Senator that the bill
is an egregious response to the air quality issue around Concentrated Animal
Feeding Operations [CAFOs].

This bill can be debated anytime soon and probably today! so your quick
response is needed.

This is the issue of Hydrogen Sulfide and Ammonia emissions, which are the
prime components of the odor problem and which create serious health threats
to people who breathe...and who are at risk of respiratory health problems.

Let your senator know state regulations proposed in this bill also would not
allow the state to regulate beyond standards currently in place by the EPA.
These standards serve as a baseline from which Iowa should work. This bill
makes those standards the ceiling, rather than the floor.

The bill attempts to:

    1. Remove the DNR authority to promulgate standards for pollutants for
which the federal EPA does not have standards...i.e., mercury and sulfur
dioxide, as two prime examples. [Section 1 of the bills.]

    2. Sets the hydrogen sulfide standard at significantly higher than twice
that recommended by the DNR last year...or by the most recent research done
by the Federal HHS, ATSDR bureau, for the World Health Organization.

    3. Sets the ammonia standard at significantly higher than twice what the
DNR recommended last year...and for far longer term exposures.

Please also send a message to the Governor as we will likely have to depend
on him to veto this legislation.

The Governor's email is: [log in to unmask]

Legislator emails can be found at:
 Senate: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Senate/Members/04Senate.html

Senate switchboard is: 515-281-3371

If you need help determining who your Senator is, please contact Jane Clark
at [log in to unmask]

This bill is a serious threat to the DNR's ability to protect the public
health of all people, and especially all people who live in proximity to
CAFOs.

Lyle
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Lyle Krewson
6403 Aurora Avenue #3
Des Moines, IA 50322-2862
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515/276-8947 - Ofc/Res
515/238-7113 - Cel

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