We just received this email from Ms. Mary Posey, regarding a bill to stop the building of a large incinerator near the Monocacy Battlefield in Frederick County MD. It sounds like it could have a negative on a small, yet important Civil War site.
March 31st at 1PM! If you can’t attend, please email the ehe committee (see contact info and link below).
This is very, very important! Feel free to share this email! I do want you to know that Commissioner Hagen had to leave the BoCC meeting today, and the other 4 BoCC members voted unanimously to send Commissioner Gray to Annapolis with a BoCC supported letter that opposes Senator Mooney’s Bill 1009. Their complaint is that Senator Mooney did not take his bill thru the public hearing process in Frederick County and Commissioner Jenkins states that Senator Mooney came to one of the WTE public hearings for 15 minutes, didn’t speak , and then left. This bill needs your support.
Good luck! Thank you!
ehe@mlis.state.md.us
joan.carter.conway@senate.state.md.us
roy.dyson@senate.state.md.ushttp://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/05sen/html/com/02eco.html
Citizen Advisory
From the Office of State Senator Alex X. Mooney (Frederick & Washington Counties)
March 25, 2009
I am writing to report to you immediately some good news about my bill, SB 1009, which would prevent any incinerator from being built within one mile of a National Park. The McKinney site currently under consideration by the Frederick County Commissioners is within one mile of the Monocacy National Battlefield. The recent March 23 article in Frederick News-Post “Battlefield Incinerator Ban Rolls Ahead” stated: “Sen. Roy Dyson, vice chairman of the Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, said that committee is busy and he did not foresee a hearing being scheduled before the end of session next month.”
Nonetheless, I have succeeded in securing a hearing date for the bill. I was just informed today that our bill will be heard on Tuesday, March 31 at 1:00pm in the Education, Health and Environment Committee in the Miller Senate Office building in Annapolis. Hopefully our arguments for this legislation will be convincing at the hearing and we can pass the bill before session ends on April 13, after which time all bills are dead for the rest of the year. The hearing is open to the public and anyone can testify. The more people that attend to show support the better and you do not have to testify. In fact, out of respect for the committees time I would recommend some limitations on the testimony, especially so as testimony is not repetitive.
Thank you again for contacting me with your legitimate concerns about the Frederick County planned incinerator and I hope you will be able to attend this crucial hearing.
Even if you are not able to attend, feel free to send a letter of support to the committee at the Miller Senate Office Building, Annapolis, MD 21401.
Sincerely,
Alex X. Mooney
State Senator, Frederick and Washington Counties
P.S. My other bill, SB 1056, which bans incinerators being built within three miles of any residential dwelling, church, school, park or hospital has not yet even been referred to the committee for hearing. Therefore, the bill being heard on March 31, SB 1009, is currently our best option to stop an incinerator in southern Frederick County.
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