Pesticide Contamination Regulation

[EWerb at aol.com]

not sure if this is a hoax

is this stuff still allowed?

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Fellow Advocates:
As many of you have probably heard, the Department of Pesticide Regulation 
("DPR") has drafted proposed regulations (rules) for the agricultural use of 
methyl bromide.  Because this is a formal rule-making process DPR is required 
to release the proposal to the public and hold hearings if requested.  
Because methyl bromide is such a controversial pesticide DPR has decided to 
hold 3 hearings. Although specific requests have been made to hold a hearing 
in Ventura County DPR has scheduled the hearings for Watsonville, Fresno and 
Ontario.  

Due to the large use of methyl bromide in Ventura County, and the amount of 
community concern surrounding that use, it is imperative that a hearing be 
scheduled in this location to provide community members an opportunity to 
participate in the process.  You may have received a request to write a 
letter to Paul Helliker at DPR, thank you if you have sent off your letter 
(if you haven't sent it yet, please send ASAP).  Would you also take a few 
minutes and call your State Assembly Member and State Senator and ask that 
they intercede and ask DPR that a hearing be held in Ventura County for the 
upcomming Methyl Bromide Regulation hearings.  You might tell them it would 
be too difficult to attend a meeting being held in Salinas, Fresno or Ontario 
and it is important to our children's health that there is a local hearing.  

Their numbers follow:

For Ventura/Ojai
Assemblymember      Hannah Beth Jackson 648-9943
Senator             Jack O'Connell          641-1500 (ask for Cindy 
Cunningham)

For Oxnard/Camarillo
Assemblymember  Tony Strickland         987-5195
Senator             Kathy Wright            522-2920
 

Many thanks!
Lynda Uvari  - if you have questions, please call me at 647-0931