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	Don't Let Congress Stop Clean-Water Progress Recent efforts to save the Bay and its rivers and streams are in jeopardy.

In 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a science-based pollution limit for the Chesapeake Bay. If achieved, this "pollution diet" has the potential to get the Bay and many of our local waterways off EPA's notorious "dirty waters" list, restore water quality from New York to Virginia, and protect and add hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend on and contribute to clean water. Bay-area states have submitted and are refining their own local plans to meet this limit.

But, just as progress is underway, powerful forces and their friends in Congress are working to derail the recovery effort.

Some members of Congress are continuing attempts to undermine federal investment in and efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay.

National industry associations, from agriculture to construction and development, are challenging the pollution limit in federal court: the American Farm Bureau Federation, The Fertilizer Institute, the National Chicken Council, the National Corn Growers Association, the National Pork Producers Council, the National Turkey Federation, the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, and the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association.

All of us who love the Bay and its rivers and streams must make our voices heard, loudly and repeatedly. This is no time for silence.

Let your voice be heard by sending the following message to your members of Congress, urging them to support these efforts to clean up our waterways.

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Where do you live? Do you use local rivers or the Chesapeake Bay for fishing, paddling, boating, swimming? Does your job rely on our waterways? Is there another reason clean rivers, streams, and the Bay are important to you? Add your personal thoughts and concerns to the message below.

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Clean and healthy water plays a huge role in making the Chesapeake Bay watershed the wonderful region that it is. Residents and business alike rely on it for fishing, boating, and swimming; for recreation and for their livelihood. We are halfway to our goal of restoring the Chesapeake Bay by 2025. Efforts to save the Bay at the local, state, and federal level are under way. We cannot afford to have the clocked turned back due to a simple lack of political will.

I understand that EPA and the states have developed a strategy under the Clean Water Act to end excess pollution to the Chesapeake Bay. I also understand that this strategy is being fought by huge agricultural and development industries. In my view, these pollution limits are critical to the quality of life in this region.

Please do not let Congress stop the Bay pollution limits and work with your colleagues to ensure that the recovery and restoration of Chesapeake Bay is a success.

Thank you for all you do for our area. Please continue to make this a priority.

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