The Lake Roosevelt Forum Conference has a session of particular interest to Spokane River Toxics Task Force and DO TMDL participants. Entitled “WA State Proposals to Reduce Toxic Pollution and Update Surface Water Quality Standards,” it’s from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on April 22 at the Davenport Hotel. For those interested in attending only this session, there will be no conference registration or fee required. Simply go to the Porter Room at the Davenport on Wednesday, April 22.

Two senior Ecology people, Kelly Susewind and Darin Rice, will present at the session. Kelly will provide updates on public comments and standing of updating water quality standards and the fish consumption rate. Darin will review legislative status of Governor Inslee’s toxics initiative. Rick Eichstaedt will provide perspectives from EPA, NGOs, etc.

For full conference information, including agenda and speakers, go to http://www.lrf.org/conference

The next meeting of the Spokane River Regional Toxics Task Force Administrative and Contracting Entity (ACE) is:

Date: March 12, 2015
Time: 9 am – noon
Location: Spokane County Water Resource Center (Small Conference Room)
1004 N. Freya Street Spokane, WA 99202

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All ACE meetings are open to the public.

Task Force members are asked to review, comment and provide edits to a letter requesting $800,000 for the 2015-2016 biennium.  This $800,000 request was based on earlier estimates to complete the next phases of work and we have good support from the legislators for this requested amount.

Please review the proposed letter prior to the full Task force meeting and send comments or suggested revisions  to dougkrapas@iepco no later than Tuesday, February 17 so that a final version can be posting the following day.  Please do your best to not wordsmith this document.  This document is similar in form to was approved for the previous legislative funding request (2013-2014), so please determine “if you can live with it as written.”