Sierrans The Senate Judiciary Committee this afternoon brought out what has been referred to as the Fraise bill, which would establish county review committees to provide citizen evaluation of CAFO siting under the matrix system. This action gets our issue on the calendar with a bill which can be amended. It will have a SF number Monday or early in the week. The vote was a party line vote, except one Democrat, Sen. Hancock, voted 'no'. This is not a 'local control' bill by any real stretch, nor is the action in the House. HSB 267, the Kuhn-Frevert CAFO bill came out of House Environmental Protection Committee on a party line vote. I will have a more thorough analysis of this bill this weekend. First Funnel is over.....sigh, hooray, now we can rest a weekend. Lots to complete in updating my tracking database, so will have a full report later this weekend on as much as I can of what survives the funnel Lyle ____________________________________________ Lyle Krewson Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter Lobbyist 1725 S. 50th Street #602 West Des Moines, IA 50265 [log in to unmask] 515-238-7113 - Cel ____________________________________________ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.asp