SF bay TAKE ACTION: LBAM Spray Program is Back

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TAKE ACTION: LBAM Spray Program is BackRemember the Light Brown Apple Moth Spray Program that would have aerially sprayed toxins on our communities?Well, it's back.Please invite all facebook friends to join this group!Here are SIX things you can do now to stop the spray: 1. Call USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and

ask him to reclassify the light brown apple moth to non quarantinable status and stop the LBAM program now.- phone: 202-720-3631 is the main line for the USDA. Ask to leave a message for Secretary Vilsack. OR

EMAIL: agsec2.

Call California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary A.G. Kawamura and ask him NOT to certify the apple moth EIR and to stop the LBAM program now.- phone: 916-654-0433 OR email:akawamura*Talking

points for calls/emails:The state environmental document on the program has just come out and includes the possibility of aerial spray of large populated areas of CaliforniaThe moth has been intercepted in CA since 1984, but the state can point to only 1 questionable incident of possible apple moth damage in the past 26 yearsThe program is an enormous waste of taxpayer money in hard economic times3.

Call your local city councilmember or county supervisor and ask that the city council or county board immediately send a letter to Secretary Kawamura asking him to delay certification of the Environmental Impact Report (which could be certified any day now) until public hearings on the program are held in all affected communities. 4. Call your state and federal representatives and ask them to support federal reclassification of the moth and ending of the apple moth quarantines and eradication program, and tell them that the eradication program is a

complete waste of taxpayer money.5. Call the state departments of Public Health, Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and Pesticide Regulation and ask them to contact Agriculture Secretary Kawamura to request that he not certify the environmental impact report until the full formulas of the apple moth pesticides, including the adjuvants or so-called inerts, are disclosed (and for good measure add that you think

this program is a complete waste of taxpayer money).California Department of Public Health: Mark Horton. Director 916- 558-1700 [ASK TO LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR DR. MARK HORTON] mark.hortonDepartment

of Pesticide Regulation: Mary Ann Warmerdam, Director 916-324-1452 mwarmerdamOffice

of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment: Joan Denton, Director (916) 322-6325 jdenton

6. Call or email the office of State Assemblymember Sandré Swanson and express your appreciation for his introduction of AB 1721, the School Healthy and Safety Protection Zones Act, which would establish pesticide spray safety zones around schools across the state. Mr. Swanson's office needs to know BY NEXT WEEK that we support his efforts, especially from residents of his district: Oakland, Alameda, and Piedmont.916-319-2016 OR Fax: (916) 319-2116SOME BAY AREA LEGISLATOR CONTACTSFederal: U.S. Representative Barbara

Lee (East Bay) (510) 763-0370 U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (San

Francisco) (415) 556-4862 - Senator Dianne Feinstein (415) 393-0707Senator

Barbara Boxer (415) 403-0100State:Assemblymember Sandré R. Swanson (Oakland, Piedmont, Alameda) 916-319-2016Assemblymember Nancy Skinner (Berkeley, Albany, Richmond, San Pablo, Kensington, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda, Pleasant Hill) (916) 319-2014Assemblymember

Tom Torlakson (Northern Contra Costa) (916) 319-2011Assemblymember Jared Huffman (Marin) (916) 319-2006 Senator Mark Leno (SF, Marin) (916) 651-4003Senator Loni Hancock (East Bay) (916) 651-4009-- Fun SF events: http://planttrees.orghttp://twitter.com/planttrees

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