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Dear Summer,
Welcome to the Georgia Conservation Voters
Legislative Newsletter. This letter will be
circulated frequently during the 2006 legislative
session in efforts to keep you abreast on issues of
particular interest to you
on environmental legislation.
Georgia Conservation Voters (GCV) is a non-partisan
citizens' organization dedicated to protecting
Georgia's environment and the health of all
Georgians by advocating in the legislature and in
the media for strong environmental protections;
helping to elect conservation-minded leaders to
Georgia's General Assembly and selected local races;
and by holding our elected officials accountable for
how well they worked to protect and restore
Georgia's environment.
Sincerely,
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The Senate Natural Resources and Environment
Committee met Thursday, February 23rd to
vote on the bill that met with much opposition in its
hearing one week before. Senator Chip Pearson
amended his bill and removed the most onerous
provisions, in no small part due to the public
outcry against the blatant attack on stream buffers
across Georgia. The bill's scope is now narrowed to
150-foot stream buffers that protect streams within
seven miles upstream from a drinking water
reservoir. The bill now provides a variance process,
managed by EPD, for intrusion into those buffers.
