From: Rebecca Vincent

Sent: Wed Mar 16 12:08:51 2011

To: ToxicsRuleMaking

Subject: Protect the Water

Importance: Normal

To the Department of Environmental Quality and the Environmental

Quality Commission,

I am writing to urge you to adopt the strongest measures possible to

protect the waterways of Oregon. I urge you to adopt Oregon’s draft

human health criteria for toxics based on the accurate fish

consumption rate of 175 grams per day.

I urge the DEQ and EQC not to undermine your own efforts by making it

easier to obtain exceptions or “variances” to current standards. 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 in advance for working to protect the water and health of

all inhabitants of the state.

Rebecca Vincent

2343 Todd St

Eugene OR 97405