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Subject: Latest on Lafarge

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Ned Depew

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Date Posted: 09:25:04 09/09/05 Fri

Friends -

at last night's Stuyvesant Town Board Meeting, Peter Donahoe made a presentation urging the Board - which had already asked the DEC to be kept closely informed as an interested party in the Lafarge application - to request the DEC to extend the commment period beyond October 3, and to hold at least one hearing on the Columbia County side of the river, in the downwind path where most of the effects of any changed and/or added pollution from Ravena will be felt.

This is the kind of active involvement that will be required to insist that DEC fulfill its responsibility and exercise the due diligence required by law to protect our health and the environment.

If you haven't yet sent a letter to William Clarke (address in post below) to urge and extension of the comment period, withdrwal of the "Negative Declaration on Enviornmental Impact," and holding of a series of hearings in the areas that will be most strongly affected - on the Columbia County side of the river - please do so as soon as possible.

We need all the public input that we can muster to make sure that this application gets the closest possible scrutiny, to be assured that our health is protected from some of the most deadly toxins known to science.

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