News release: Legislation to safeguard salmon and steelhead trout from lethal storm water contaminant approved by committee
Today, legislation to protect California’s iconic salmon and steelhead trout authored by Assemblymember Diane Papan (D-San Mateo) was approved by the Assembly Committee on Transportation with a bipartisan vote. The S.A.L.M.O.N Act (Stormwater Anti-Lethal Measures for Our Natives Act), would mandate the development and implementation of a regional strategy by the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to eliminate (a contaminant from tire rubber) from stormwater discharges into specified salmon and steelhead trout-bearing surface waters of the state.
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