UNIVERSITY RECOMMENDATIONS ON AIR QUALITY TO BE PRESENTED AT EPC MEETING FEB. 18

DES MOINES - The Environmental Protection Commission will consider recommendations to set ambient air quality standards for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) at their Feb. 18, 2002, meeting to be held in the auditorium of the Wallace Building in Des Moines.

At 1 p.m. Dean James A. Merchant, University of Iowa; and Dean Catherine E. O'Connor Woteki, Iowa State University, will present the results of a study requested by Gov. Tom Vilsack in June of 2001. The universities were asked to address the public health and environmental impacts of CAFOs.

The Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement have an appointment to speak at 2 p.m. and Iowa Select Farms is scheduled to speak at 2:30 p.m.

The meeting begins at 10 a.m. and public participation is scheduled for 10:30. The meeting is open to the public.

The complete agenda for the meeting is as follows:

• Approve Agenda
• Approve Minutes of January 22, 2002
• Director's Remarks
• FY 02 Second Quarter Financial Status Report
• Notice of Intended Action - Chapter 106, Recycling Operation (Rescission); Chapter 104, Sanitary Disposal Projects with Processing Facilities (Amendment); Chapter 106, Transfer Stations & Citizen Convenience Centers (Adoption)
• Contract - Solid Waste Alternatives Program Recommendations for Funding
• Contract - Toxic Cleanup Day (Amendment)
• Advanced Environmental Technology at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant - Application for Site License (Appointment of Temporary Commissioners.)
• Final Rule - Chapter 20, Scope of Title-Definitions-Rules of Practice; Chapter 22, Controlling Pollution; Chapter 23, Emission Standards for Contaminants; Chapter 25 Measurements of Emissions (Updates, Revisions, and Additions)
• Notice of Intended Action - Chapter 22 Controlling Pollution (Title V Insignificant Activities Rule)
• Final Rule - Chapter 132, Transportation of Radioactive Materials in Iowa (Rescission of Rule) Contract - Center for Agricultural Resource, and Environmental Systems - Flood Hazard Maps · Contract - Williams and Company, CPA, P.C. - Onsite Wastewater Systems Loan Program · Intended Use Plan - Clean Water State Revolving Fund - Amendment
• Notice of Intended Action - Chapter 65, Animal Feeding Operations (Definition of Adjacency for Open Feedlots) · Proposed Contested Case Decision - Affordable Asbestos Removal, Inc.
• Referrals to the Attorney General Iowa Select Farms, L.P.
  Michael Bauer
  City of Lamoni (Tabled)
• Monthly Reports
• General Discussion
• Items for next meeting

The members of the commission are Terrance Townsend, Chair, Newton; James Braun, Latimer; Lisa Davis-Cook, West Des Moines; Kathryn Murphy, LeMars; Rita Venner, Breda; Gary C. Priebe, Algona; Darrell Hanson, Manchester; J. Kelly Tobin, New Market and Lori Glanzman, Mt. Pleasant. The director of the DNR is Jeffrey Vonk.

For more information, contact Karen Grimes, DNR information specialist, at (515) 281-5135.

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