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Dear Representatives,
I am deeply concerned about the battle for whether we will continue
to have a democracy that is being waged in our country. There are
those whose only focus is personal profit as a time when we are
wresting with national and international crises, specifically
global warming and the growing divide between rich and poor. It
makes a mockery of the law to allow multi-billion dollar companies
to circumvent the laws intended to reduce fossil fuel emissions by
paying other multi billion dollar companies who are already getting
tax benefits for TPZ designation to receive double tax benefit for
their business activities. It adds insult to injury when those
companies utilize clearcutting preactices that REDUCE oxygen
production AND use herbicides in this process to kill all competing
vegetation that then finds it's way into the public water supply.
Any company that engages in these practice should be automatically
deamed ineligible for offset benefits. I would further propaoe that
any company engaging in practices such asthese which are clearly
not in the public interest be denied TPZ status and have to pay for
the damage that they do. It is a sad fact that my County's water
district (Calaveras County) cannot even afford the equipment to
monitor the herbicides that are leaching into the water supply for
not only our County, but for the large urban areas downstream. I
think legislators need to adhere to the intent of the law and
demand improvement in environmental practices of companies as the
law intended. Sincerely, 
Anne Calderwood