Sludge Watch ==> Virginia - House Agriculture Committee holds public meeting

[Maureen Reilly]

January 22, 2007
State legislators will address immigration, transportation and sewer sludge 
this week


Now that House and Senate Republicans have announced their transportation 
compromise, critics are waiting to see details of the complex bill. GOP 
leaders are preparing to guide the fragile compromise through the 
legislative process this.  Delegate Morgan Griffith said, "When you do a 
compromise, you don't make everybody happy. You always feel like you wish 
you hadn't had to do this or that, but it's a good compromise that will be 
good for all of Virginia."

Also this week the public gets to weigh in on an issue Central Virginia 
lawmakers say stinks. The House Agriculture Subcommittee will hold a public 
hearing Tuesday afternoon on two of Campbell County Delegate Kathy Byron's 
bills dealing with biosolids. Byron and other local lawmakers believe the 
Department of Health hasn't properly regulated the sewer sludge which is 
made mostly of human waste.