Urgent! This truly urgent as the Iowa Senate is debating a bill in committee today that goes exactly the wrong way on the Bottle Deposit law. Please read the message below and respond urgently! Telephone number at the end. Thanks Lyle The Senate Natural Resources & Environment Committee will be debating Senate File 261 today at 2:30 p.m. in Room 22 of the Capitol. This legislation can be found at: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&Serv ice=Billbook Enter SF261 in the "quick find" box and hit enter. Summary: It allows the person providing redemption services to determine what the deposit refund should be. We need to ask committee members to amend the great things in SF107 into this bill. Namely: - Direct increase in the handling fee (rather than the crazy language in SF261) - If you sell covered products, you are required to redeem them - Empower the IDNR to enforce the law Please contact members of this committee: Dennis H. Black (D, District 21), Co-chair Hubert Houser (R, District 49), Co-chair Joe Bolkcom (D, District 39) Dick L. Dearden (D, District 34) E. Thurman Gaskill (R, District 6) Tom Hancock (D, District 16) David Johnson (R, District 3) Steve Kettering (R, District 26) Mary Lundby (R, District 18) David Miller (R, District 45) John Putney (R, District 20) Brian Schoenjahn (D, District 12) Dr. Joe M. Seng (D, District 43) Frank B. Wood (D, District 42) Senate Phone: 515-281-3371 Thank you!!! Dewayne Dewayne Johnson, Executive Director Iowa Recycling Association Lyle Krewson Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter Lobbyist ____________________________________________ 6403 Aurora Avenue #3 Des Moines, IA 50322-2862 [log in to unmask] 515/276-8947 - Ofc/Res 515/238-7113 - Cel ____________________________________________ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask]