| To the editor and friends of clean water:
HB 1515 is coming up for vote in the Oklahoma House. This bill is brought by the hog factory farm industry and, if passed, is a real threat to Tenkiller Lake. It removes protective setbacks for outstanding resource waters like Tenkiller. This is classic special interest legislation making it easier to locate huge, confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) near our best streams and lakes.
HB 1515 also reduces setback limits for public drinking water sources, National Parks, historic sites, and museums.
We can't sit by and let this bill go unopposed. Please call or email your legislators today.
Also ask that your lawmakers vote NO on SB 709 defining animal waste as nonhazardous. This bill is unnecessary and only hampers the state's lawsuit against the out of state poultry factory farm industry. It is special interest legislation.
Ed Brocksmith
Tahlequah, OK
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