Dear OCB Colleagues,
Please see email below regarding the recent EPA federal register notice on ocean acidification. The notice is attached (pdf) and is also available for download on the OCB website . The OCB Ocean Acidification Subcommittee is happy to coordinate input from the OCB community, and to provide a single response to this process (and of course, anyone is free to submit individual comments separately). If you would like to be involved, please contact Sarah Cooley (scooley@whoi.edu) in the OCB Project Office.
Best regards,
Joan Kleypas and Richard Feely
OCB Ocean Acidification Subcommittee co-chairs
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Dear OCB Community,
I am writing to encourage you to submit information on ocean acidification to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA is seeking information and data on ocean acidification and has an important comment period open until May 21st. As a part of the scientific community, your comments to EPA are extremely valuable. Please see the attached fact sheet for more information.
Call for Data: Ocean Acidification and the Clean Water Act
Deadline: May 21, 2010
Submit: www.regulations.gov
(EPA-HQ-OW-2010-0175)
You can find more information and EPA’s notice at: http://www.epa.gov/owow/TMDL/oceanfrMarch_2010/
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions.
Sincerely,
Miyoko Sakashita
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Miyoko Sakashita w Senior Attorney
Oceans Program Director
miyoko@biologicaldiversity.org
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
351 California Street, Suite 600
San Francisco, CA 94104
415-436-9682 w Fax 415-436-9683
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org
