Environmental Press # 113

Subj: OOG: San Diego Waiver Coastal Commission Hearing Monday in Los Angeles
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 8:27:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: Jon V3
To: Jon V3

Dear Ocean Outfall Group (OOG), dedicated to ending the 301(h) waivers held by the Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD), San Diego, Goleta, and Morro Bay:

On Monday, the California Coastal Commission will be holding a hearing on the San Diego waiver in Los Angeles. If you can attend this hearing, let me know, as we have some people going up to testify. At this hearing the Coastal Commission is being pressured to reverse their April decision to deny the waiver. We want to testify that the ocean is a statewide resource that should not allow waivers whether or not the discharger is San Diego, Orange County, Goleta, Morro Bay, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc. San Diego is the largest waiver holder in the USA, now that Orange County has voted to give up its waiver. It simply is against the Coastal Act to allow a discharger to continue to pollute the ocean and not progressively clean up its discharge. It is time to stop the waivers everywhere in California (and the USA).

The meeting is being held at the Westin Hotel at LAX, on Century Blvd. near the 405 Freeway, starting at 10 AM. Here is the website information for the meeting: