Governor Keating State Capitol, Room 212 Oklahoma City, OK 73105 Dear Governor Keating: The health of our streams, lakes and drinking water supplies is seriously threatened with excessive nutrients and other pollutants from animal waste and contaminated runoff. Another major threat to water quality is unregulated and unwise physical alteration such as filling of wetlands, channelization and impoundment of our last free-flowing stream segments. I am writing to ask you to direct our state agencies to take the following steps toward eliminating these threats: Require immediate progress in developing and implementing total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) to clean up nutrient-impaired lakes and streams such as the Illinois River. Ban new point source discharges and increased loading of nutrients into impaired waters. Develop enforceable requirements to reduce pollution from all significant nonpoint sources in the watersheds of nutrient-impaired streams and lakes. Impose stricter controls on land disposal of animal wastes and ban leaky lagoon systems for holding swine wastes. Require corporate giants in the poultry industry to provide growers with systems to transport waste out of nutrient threatened watersheds. Provide new incentives for protection of riparian areas, conservation practices that prevent runoff, and sustainable methods of animal farming. Require that all proposals to channelize, dam, fill or physically alter streams and wetlands are subject to public hearings and comment requirements, are accompanied by a full environmental impact statement and are in strict compliance with Oklahoma Water Quality Standards. Your office can ensure progress toward long-term economic and environmental health by implementing these steps. Sincerely,