Iowa Sierrans and Friends: From: Lyle Krewson, Sierra Club Chapter Lobbyist ALERT FOLLOWUP: The bill very likely will come up for debate in the Senate tomorrow, Thursday. Please take your action before Noon tomorrow, if you have not already. Below is the alert language from yesterday. Thanks. Lyle 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! And, !Thank You!" For taking action. Email Senators via this link to their email addresses: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/aspx/Legislators/SenateEmail.aspx OR, call Senators via the Senate Switchboard - 515/281-3371, or call them at their home, if it is the weekend, Friday - Sunday. 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]