Lyle, could you please bring us up to date on this bill? Did it pass the Senate? If so, did the manure amendment stay in?

Or, if this bill died in the Senate, what are the implications of not passing the stuff needed for Iowa to be in compliance for the de-delagation issue?

Thanks in advance,

Laurie

--- On Thu, 4/17/08, Lyle Krewson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Lyle Krewson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: CORRECTION Re: HF2692
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008, 10:06 PM
> Colleagues:
> 
> I apologize...I send this out and state it
> backwards.......that is  
> what I get for doing it while sitting in the House Lounge
> monitoring  
> the debate on the Odor Control Bill.e.
> The message should be as re-stated below.
> Lyle
> 
> 
> This is a scorecard issue.
> 
> HF 2692 was introduced on Monday by the Majority and
> Minority Leaders  
> of the Iowa Housed. It includes the issues, from earlier
> bills, that  
> are needed for Iowa to be in compliance for the
> de-delagation issue.  
> In addition the leadership added the Manure Stockpiling
> Bill that DNR,  
> IEC and Sierra Club have been working to get defeated or
> amended. Lots  
> of pressure was placed on the members of the House
> Agriculture  
> Committee.
> 
> The following Committee Members voted AGAINST the Kuhn
> Amendment,  
> which would have removed the Manure Stockpiling issue from
> HF2692 in  
> House Agriculture Committee yesterday:
> 
> Dolores Mertz (D, District 8), Chair
> Jack Drake (R, District 57), Ranking Member
> Mark Davitt (D, District 74)
> Betty De Boef (R, District 76)
> Cecil Dolecheck (R, District 96)
> Elesha Gayman (D, District 84)
> Sandy Greiner (R, District 89)
> Dan Huseman (R, District 53)
> Steven Olson (R, District 83)
> Henry Rayhons (R, District 11)
> Mike Reasoner (D, District 95)
> Nathan Reichert (D, District 80)
> Doug Struyk (R, District 99)
> Andrew Wenthe (D, District 18)
> Gary Worthan (R, District 52)
> 
> A vote AGAINST would represent the Farm Bureau, Pork
> Producers’ and  
> AgriBusiness position.
> 
> The following Committee Members voted FOR the Kuhn
> Amendment, which  
> would have removed the Manure Stockpiling issue from HF2692
> in House  
> Agriculture Committee yesterday:
> 
> John Whitaker (D, District 90), Vice Chair
> Marcella Frevert (D, District 7)
> Mark Kuhn (D, District 14)
> Helen Miller (D, District 49)
> Kurt Swaim (D, District 94)
> Ray Zirkelbach (D, District 31)
> 
> A vote FOR would represent the Sierra Club, Local Control
> Coalition,  
> IFU, DNR and IEC position.
> 
> Leadership in the House has made this into a very difficult
> issue for  
> their members, just as with the Odor Control Bill, which
> was being  
> debated as I wrote this originally.
> 
> Lyle Krewson
> 
> 
> ____________________________________________
> Lyle Krewson
> Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter Lobbyist
> 
> 1725 S. 50th Street #602
> West Des Moines, IA 50265
> 
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