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Global Impact has taken the initiative to start the Tree Seed Bank, a dedicated cause to preserve the forests of today for tomorrow. We have started to collect seed from the Hardwood and semi-hardwood forests of North America in an effort to regenerate the loss of forests from clear cutting and to educate the land owners to take the necessary steps to preserve our natural resources. We hope to extend our cause throughout the world.

LETS STOP THE MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL STRIP MINING

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection  Agency (EPA) are attempting to rewrite the Clean Water Act to severely threaten our nation's rivers, streams, wetlands and wildlife that live there. The rule change would overturn a recent court decision which found that the waste disposal practices associated with mountaintop removal coal mining violates the Clean Water Act. We need your help to stop mountaintop removal, an environmentally horrific mining technique uses explosives to tear away whole mountain peaks to get at coal deposits underneath. The debris is then bulldozed into the valleys below, completely burying forests, streams and fragile wildlife habitat. The Corps' proposal would allow mountaintop removal mining to continue by giving the agency new authority to allow polluting  industries to dump mining waste directly into our nation's scenic  rivers, mountain streams and fragile wetlands -- areas which provide  habitat for wildlife and recreational and fishing opportunities for  Americans.  WHAT CAN YOU DO:  Please take a minute and send a free e-mail to the Army Corps of  Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency and tell them  that you do not support mountaintop removal mining .

 

   STOP DISASTROUS MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING RE:

   Proposed Rule FR Doc. 00-9940

   Dear federal water managers:

    I am extremely concerned about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Proposed Revisions to the Clean Water Act definitions of "Fill Material" and "Discharge of Fill Material." I am opposed to the redefinition of "fill"  material to encompass waste, which will give the Army Corps new  authority to permit the dumping of mountaintop mining waste, and other kinds of solid waste, into our waterways.  This proposal will greatly undermine a federal court ruling that  closed a loophole allowing the environmentally horrific practice of  mountaintop removal mining. This controversial technique uses  explosives to tear away whole peaks to get at coal deposits underneath. The debris is then bulldozed and dumped into the  valleys below, completely burying forests and streams and wildlife  habitat.  Now, you are attempting to rewrite the Clean Water Act's rules to  allow the dumping of mountaintop mining waste, and many other kinds  of waste into our waterways. This would have disastrous implications for rivers, streams, wildlife, and communities all across the country.  I urge you not to pursue such actions that will weaken the Clean Water Act and jeopardize our environment and local communities.  Please accept my comments and make them part of the public record  on this important matter.  Sincerely,