From: Dianne Ensign

Sent: Mon Mar 21 08:31:46 2011

To: ToxicsRuleMaking

Subject: Oregon's new water quality standards

Importance: Normal

Please move quickly to adopt Oregon’s draft human health criteria for

toxics based on the accurate fish consumption rate of 175 grams per day.

This rate is a joint recommendation of the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and DEQ.

Also, please do not make it easier to obtain exceptions or “variances”

to current standards. More specifically, the new rule allowing DEQ to

issue variances without EQC approval should not apply to standards that

aren’t affected by this rulemaking. The new variance rule should be

limited to only those standards that have changed as a result of the

current process.

Thank you for considering my comments.

Dianne Ensign

11600 SW Lancaster Rd

Portland, OR 97219