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Gara Gillentine <sarabluesky@dixie-net.com> 
03/27/2008 05:03 PM

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Subject | EPA–R04–OW–2008–0179

Dear EPA:
I am writing to voice my support of EPA's initiation of a veto of the Yazoo Pumps Project under section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act. The Yazoo Pumps would result in an unacceptable amount of wetland loss in the state of Mississippi and waste at least $211 million federal tax dollars. 

The Yazoo Pumps project would drain thousands of acres of ecologically significant wetlands and impact important habitat for the Louisiana black bear.  The wetlands that would be drained are among the richest natural resources in the nation, and are along a critical migration route for 20 percent of the nation's duck population.  

In summary, the Yazoo Pumps project would cause significant degradation of the aquatic environment, including impacts to fish and wildlife.  I urge EPA to finalize its veto of this project under section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act.

"It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species." ? David Attenborough

"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage."?
Sri Aurobindo

Gara Gillentine
221 Oxford Apt. Cove
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