Rep Mursau on PFAS

because it's it it really it's really heartbreaking that we're sitting here talking about people in my district I have 68 fields that they continually for years have spread uh solid waste on from from our treatment plants full of peos those Farmers those people and we heard it before that we're going to talk about Farmers you Dar right I am they had no choice they they they had that stuff put on their fields they they said it was good for their crops it was good for for uh fertilizer it was put on there but now we find out it's full of posos we have I have one fellow that grows uh uh raises cattle for his uh for our community sells it to a lot of the butcher shops and his his Wells are plump full of peos his question is should I be feeding it should I be selling my meat and the thing of it is uh you know I have it directly in my community I have Tao Industries uh they are uh the polluters that have put out the posos over the many years and they've taken that posos and uh sent it all over the world it's was sprayed all over in different fires because it puts out it Smothers a fire almost instantly we found other chemicals we aren't using that chemical anymore but the damage has been done and today we have a bill in front of us that we're trying to take and get $125 million out to the people and we heard that the DNR it's taking their their Authority away from them it doesn't take the authority away they kept continually told us the whole time we were negotiating this bill that we'll never use that we will never use that part of it we never have then what difference does it make if it's in there or not if you're not going to use it let's move on and help the people that are that have this contamination and and you know the fact is they said they'd never use it we had a a case here in in a number of them across the state where uh with the uh dry cleaners and the contamination that dry cleaning companies have left a gentleman uh here in the area had bought a property wanted to have make it a rental find out there was a dry cleaner there and it was before the law of disclosure had to be that it you had to disclose what kind of company or if that company was there it was before that he owns a property the DNR went ahead and imposed many different restrictions on him he had to taken put this elaborate uh uh ventilation system under the apartment so none of those chemicals could be dispersed out of there so he could he could even use his building he spent thousands and tens of thousands of dollars to do that so when the when the department says that they are not going to impose anything and the question was well you used it there what's the say you wouldn't come back after our Farmers well they said well we ran out of money with the with the the dry cleaner uh uh cleanup and uh so now we have to charge somebody for it so when we run out of this 125 million are we going to start charging our Farmers for it we just tried to put something in so that that farmers and and innocent land owners if we have three people that or your neighbor if it flows past my property into my neighbor's property I could be emitter and I could be uh held responsible for the pollution on his property and he could sue me over it do we want that I don't think anybody wants that any place in this state so that's why we have the innocent land owner and that seems to be the holdup you're right there was 90 plus uh percent of this bill that we all agree on but we got to hold up on whether we take and allow the DNR to have that Authority or to take and give our land owners the opportunity to not have to worry and wake up every morning thinking that you're liable for what is happening with the with something that crossed your property that you have nothing that you can do about it you don't don't have any jurisdiction on where that plume is or or anything to do with it but you're held responsible for it so I implore everybody today and I implore our our governor to please sign this and not think about what we're taking away from somebody but what these people in this state need to help clean up their water so they can take and go in uh you know the thing that comes there's people that have little children they don't know if they even wanted to have them go and take a shower with this water it just and they say well you know you can do that you have to take it internally but you know the question is we don't know for sure a lot of those things so uh please the vote is green today and I would hope that we could possibly have a bipartisan vote on this thank you