California Safe Drinking Water (fwd)

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From: ALLIES FOR JUSTICE

Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000

Subject: California Safe Drinking Water

Assembly member Audie E. Bock has introduced critical legeslation

(AB1729) in the California State legislature that would protect

California citizens from having to consume municipal drinking water

that has been treated with untested or toxic chemicals.

This bill would require a public water system to comply with

various requirements in conducting any program of fluoridation of

any public water supply, and that no fluorine-containing substance

that could be classified as a pesticide or hazardous or toxic waste

by state or federal agencies be added to the public water supply.

The bill would also provide that a product, substance, device,

element, medicine, or preventive agent shall not be added to any

public water supply for certain purposes, unless it has been tested

and approved as safe, and effective for the purpose for which it is

to be added, by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

By adding to the requirements of public water systems that conduct

fluoridation programs, this bill would impose additional duties on

local agencies that operate public water systems, thereby imposing

a state-mandated local program.

We are asking everyone to bear down and make a last minute drive to

get more letters of endorsement in on AB1729. The legislators are

gone this next week on spring break, but we need them to return to

a pile of endorsements on the Monday preceding the April 25 hearing.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

SURFACE MAIL: Assembly member Audie E. Bock,

State Capitol Rm. 5144, Sacramento, CA 95814

FAX: (916)-319-2116

E-MAIL: assemblymember.bock@...

Lark Lenore Chadwick

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ALLIES FOR JUSTICE

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