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Habitat rich Cardinal Marsh offers visitors year round outdoor fun

• 7/2/2019 11:37:00 AM
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Cardinal Marsh Wildlife Area checks a lot of the outdoor recreation boxes in its nearly 1,200 acres. With its mix of hardwood timber, native prairie, network of marshes and a winding river, this public area on the west edge of Winneshiek County offers a high quality natural getaway away from the crowds.

EPA exempts reporting air emissions from animal waste on farms

• 7/1/2019 2:10:00 PM
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Earlier this month the Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule exempting animal waste at farms from reporting air emissions under the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).

Air Quality permits under review

• 6/27/2019 11:56:00 AM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits. DNR considers public comments before finalizing the permits. Submit comments in writing to the assigned permit writer before 4:30 p.m. on the last day of the public comme...

Air Quality permits under review

• 6/20/2019 11:29:00 AM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits

Fee Advisory Group Meeting on August 1, 2019

• 6/20/2019 10:55:00 AM
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Company and facility managers, environmental staff, and governmental liaisons; and association representatives are invited to a meeting on August 1, 2019, at 10:00 A.M.  The purpose of the meeting is to discuss projected shortfalls in funding for air quality program permitting services and core program implementation activities, and to develop a funding plan for the next 5 years or longer. 

Partnership project leads to diverse wetland

• 6/18/2019 2:04:00 PM
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FAIRBANK, Iowa - Fans in the stands of the Wapsi Valley Warriors football stadium have taken notice of the large birds with long necks and grinding, raspy calls flying overhead during games in recent years. The once rare sight has become more common as the local sandhill crane population at Aldo Leopold Wildlife Management Area continues to expand.

Air Quality permits under review

• 6/13/2019 10:58:00 AM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits.

Heavy rains, flooding causing park closures across Iowa

• 5/26/2019 6:15:00 PM
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DES MOINES, Iowa – Rising river levels caused by heavy rainfall lately is forcing some state parks to be closed this Memorial Day weekend.

Air Quality permits under review

• 5/23/2019 2:16:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits. DNR considers public comments before finalizing the permits. Submit comments in writing to the assigned permit writer before 4:30 p.m. on the last day of the public comme...

Iowa’s 2019 Air Monitoring Network Plan Available for Public Review and Comment

• 5/21/2019 1:07:00 PM
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The air monitoring network plan will assist the Iowa DNR in its efforts to monitor the quality of Iowa’s air and to keep the public aware of air quality problems. The plan is required by EPA’s national ambient air monitoring regulations.

Air Quality permits under review

• 5/16/2019 11:56:00 AM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits.

Air Quality permits under review

• 5/9/2019 2:52:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits.

Air Quality permits under review

• 5/2/2019 11:21:00 AM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits.

Celebrate clean air and get outside

• 4/29/2019 12:43:00 PM
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Run. Hike or bike. Hunt for mushrooms. Photograph wildflowers. As temperatures warm and people head outdoors, they can usually count on good air quality. Iowans especially have something to celebrate. Over the last 25 years, Iowa industries have significantly reduced six major air pollutants while growing our economy.

Opportunity to Submit Air Quality Client Contact Meeting Agenda Items

• 4/15/2019 8:08:00 AM
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The Air Quality Bureau is accepting agenda topics for the next Air Quality Client Contact Meeting. The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. in DNR Conference Room 2N in the Wallace State Office Building, located at 502 E. 9th St, Des Moines, IA 50319. A conference call option will also be available.

Air quality permits under review

• 4/11/2019 3:55:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits.

Air quality permits under review

• 4/5/2019 8:04:00 AM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits

Prairie Chicken Restoration Efforts in Iowa

• 4/2/2019 2:03:00 PM
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Greater Prairie Chickens (Tympancichus cupido pinnatus) commonly nested in Iowa until about 1900. In the 1880s prairie chickens were the most abundant gamebird on Iowa’s prairies.

Air Quality permits under review

• 3/28/2019 3:17:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits. DNR considers public comments before finalizing the permits. Submit comments in writing to the assigned permit writer before 4:30 p.m. on the last day of the public comme...

Save April 11 for the latest on Iowa EASY Air

• 3/22/2019 3:38:00 PM
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You’re invited. Please join us from 1 to 2 p.m., April 11, to find out how Iowa EASY Air can make submitting air quality permit applications a breeze.

Prairie Chicken Day is April 6

• 3/19/2019 11:50:00 AM
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Kellerton, Iowa - The first rhythmic and haunting cooing begins as the night sky fades and sunrise begins. The short grass prairie booming grounds prepares for a display found nowhere else in Iowa.

State archery tournament begins March 9 in Des Moines

• 3/5/2019 12:47:00 PM
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An estimated 1,900 Iowa students from fourth through 12th grade will be at the Iowa State Fairgrounds March 9-10 competing in the Iowa State Archery Tournament.

Air Quality permits under review

• 2/28/2019 4:16:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards.

Ironing out the Details for Iowa EASY Air

• 2/26/2019 10:50:00 AM
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DNR technical staff have been working hard on the details for the new electronic system to submit air quality permit applications, Iowa EASY Air.

Air Quality permits under review

• 2/21/2019 12:29:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards.

Pilot program utilizes invasive tree species to build furniture

• 2/12/2019 12:17:00 PM
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POLK CITY, Iowa – A pilot program is in its first year at Big Creek State Park utilizing Black Locust trees to build wooden chairs.

Thaw on Super Bowl Sunday may decrease air quality

• 2/1/2019 9:56:00 AM
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources recommends that Iowans with respiratory or heart disease, the elderly, and children limit prolonged outdoor exertion on Sunday.

DNR Air Quality meetings and trainings postponed

• 1/28/2019 1:48:00 PM
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DES MOINES -- Due to forecasts of dangerously cold air temperatures and related wind chills, the DNR is postponing three Fee Advisory Group meetings tomorrow in Des Moines and four SLEIS training sessions originally scheduled for Wednesday in Cedar Rapids and Thursday in Des Moines.

Air Quality permits under review

• 1/17/2019 1:54:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits.

Water quality improvements lead to mussels’ return, Lime Creek off state impaired waters list

• 1/17/2019 1:44:00 PM
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BUCHANAN COUNTY — For Lime Creek, it’s a tale of two lists; it’s a story that moves from the state’s impaired waters list to the distinction of landing on the Outstanding Iowa Waters list. The effort was also just recognized as a water quality success story by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Title V Facilities' Emissions Reports due March 31, 2019

• 1/3/2019 1:29:00 PM
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Facilities subject to Title V of the federal Clean Air Act must submit their emissions inventories for 2018 to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Air Quality Bureau by March 31, 2019.

Public hearing and deadline on Air Quality rules extended to Jan. 22

• 12/20/2018 1:50:00 PM
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DES MOINES—The public will have an extra day to comment on proposed air quality rule changes as the public hearing and comment deadline move to Jan. 22, 2019.

Air Quality permits under review

• 12/20/2018 1:48:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits.

Update on air quality online permit application system

• 12/13/2018 11:37:00 AM
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DES MOINES – Work is proceeding on a more efficient online application system to submit and track air quality permit applications.

Air Quality permits under review

• 12/13/2018 11:36:00 AM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits.

Online Permit Application System Gets New Name

• 12/13/2018 11:20:00 AM
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The effort to provide a convenient, efficient application system to submit and track air quality permit applications is well underway. Formerly called e-Application, its new name, Iowa Environmental Application System or EASY Air, reflects DNR’s belief the system will fulfill stakeholders’ 2016 vision:

Fee Advisory Group Meetings on January 29, 2019

• 12/6/2018 8:51:00 AM
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Please join us on January 29, 2019, to review and provide comment on the draft Air Quality Bureau budget for the next state fiscal year.

Air Quality permits under review

• 11/15/2018 3:18:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards.

Air Quality permits under review

• 11/5/2018 1:58:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits. DNR considers public comments before finalizing the permits.

Consultant Begins Work on Online Air Permit Application System

• 10/29/2018 10:04:00 AM
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has entered into a contract with enfoTech & Consulting, Inc. to develop a new electronic air permitting application system. The DNR expects the system to be online by Dec. 1, 2019 for Title V and construction permit applicants.

Air Quality permits under review

• 10/29/2018 10:02:00 AM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits

Agenda for November 8 Air Quality Client Contact Meeting

• 10/25/2018 3:45:00 PM
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An Air Quality Client Contact Meeting will be held Thursday, November 8, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in DNR Conference Room 2N at the Wallace State Office Building, 502 E. 9th St, Des Moines. A conference call option is available at: (866) 685-1580, code 515 242 5296#.

Did you know that Iowa has nine species of bats?

• 10/25/2018 8:24:00 AM
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Two of the most common bats in Iowa are the little brown bat (Myotis lucifigus) and the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus). Like all of the bats in Iowa, they are insectivores and are critical for keeping Iowa’s insect populations in check.

Air Quality permits under review

• 10/18/2018 1:45:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits.

Air Quality permits under review

• 10/4/2018 12:06:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits. DNR considers public comments before finalizing the permits. Submit comments in writing to the assigned permit writer before 4:30 p.m. on the last day of the public comme...

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