Hanta Yo
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Location: South Central Montana
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We do need to be cognizant - because uninformed, twisted, take-care-of-me while I steal your property rights, liberal thinking is all around us. When people are detached from the land, something happens to them. Some have good intentions, but are swayed by the smooth talk of those with deviant intentions. Those with deviant intentions don't have the land, and don't want the rightful, tax-paying owners to have it either. We need to be ever watchful, and help educate the good intentioned individuals to the facts. (Some of these people are in our families, and some of them live in our little towns and attend our churches) The Good Lords knows there are enough people with deviant intentions out there screaming their for their twisted causes. We have to band together and work together, whether we are agriculture producers, sportsmen, outfitters, business people, etc. Those of us who live on the land and have a connection to it, need to be working together to protect it - or we will surely lose it.  |
Something to be very cognizant about: This scares the h#@* out of me, we need to group together and make a difference!!! Please, please, please make YOUR VOICE HEARD before April 17!!!!! This is just another ploy to get rid of farmers, ranchers, feedlots; anything that creates some dust!! It's absolutely CRAZY!!!!! I will be faxing my copies tonight. I sure don't see R-CALF working on this...
Re: URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Cattle Producers Must Make Their Voices Heard at EPA
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In Late January, EPA announced it's proposed rule to regulate particulate matter or dust. With the April 17 deadline for comment submission now just over one week away, WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! NCBA has requested a deadline extension, but not knowing whether or not this will be granted, NOW is the time that we need to submit our comments opposing this proposal to regulate dust. As is the case on so many environmental issues, there are thousands of activists that will be submitting comments on this rule. While the science of this issue is on our side, WE MUST MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD. Every affiliate organization and all producers need to submit comments to EPA opposing this proposal prior to the APRIL 17, 2006 Submission Deadline!
To help us defeat this unfounded and potentially devastating proposal to regulate dust, we are asking that ALL affiliate organizations submit the set of comments attached below as well as a document containing a letter that Secretary Johanns sent to EPA Administrator Steve Johnson last July and our supporting scientific analysis from Dr. Jonathan Borak. This document is very similar to the actual comments that NCBA will be submitting, and we need each of you to do the same.
1. Please customize the comments attached below to reflect submission by YOUR ORGANIZATION.
<<PM Affiliate Comments 041706.DOC>>
2. Click on http://hill.beef.org/pdfs/SupportingInfoPMAffiliateComments041706.pdf to print off or copy the document containing the letter sent from USDA to EPA and supporting documents from Dr. Jonathan Borak from Yale University.
3. Submit all of the above information to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2001-0017, in any one of the following ways:
http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
E-mail: a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov
Fax: 202-566-1749
Mail: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2001-0017
Environmental Protection Agency
Mailcode:6102T
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20460
While we are asking that all affiliates submit the long version of NCBA's comments attached above, we need each of you to help us generate a large volume of comments to EPA by urging your members to submit the brief comment letter and letter from USDA to EPA attached below. These comments can be submitted in any of the methods outlined above, but it is imperative that producers understand that these comments must be submitted by Monday, April 17, 2006.
Please use every tool at your disposal to get these comments in your producers' hands, and encourage them to submit them immediately. Knowing that there will be thousands of comments received at EPA from our activist opposition on this issue, we need to focus on getting as many people to submit our comments as possible. To help us reach this goal, PLEASE MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO GET AT LEAST 30 PRODUCERS FROM YOUR STATE TO SUBMIT THESE COMMENTS! If we work together, we can ensure that our position is heard loudly by the leaders at EPA!
<<PM Producer Comments 041706.doc>> <<PM Johanns lettter to EPA Administrator 073105.pdf>>
If you have any questions or need further information, feel free to contact me at jbeck@beef.org or (202) 347-0228.
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