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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 2011
Page
1
Cedar Rapids City Hall lobbies for owners of about 400 homes and 170 businesses to sign up for a buyout as a July 1 deadline nears. The Flood Recovery Committee votes to end the interim mortgage assistance for buyout participants not yet closed, citing misuse of public funds.
Iowa City plan would send Jackson Pollock Mural on an international tour for about a year and a half. UI Museum of Art Director Sean O’Harrow expressed excitement about a major exhibition centered on the famed painting.
Pollock painted Mural in 1943 and Peggy Guggenheim donated it to the United States in 1951. The 8 by 20 foot piece weighs about 300 pounds and was valued at 140 million dollars in 2008, the latest appraisal. The University of Iowa cites promoting Iowa as a world culture player in O'Harrow's remarks.
Two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami triggered a crisis at the plant the government reports a suspected breach at a reactor raising concerns of greater radioactive contamination. Officials defend not evacuating a wider area while suggesting residents may voluntarily relocate to areas with better facilities as supplies dwindle.
The Iowa House approved House File 643 by 64 votes, shifting non point source pollution responsibility from the Department of Natural Resources to the Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. Environmentalists warn the change risks weak checks while farm interests say it boosts pollution reduction efficiency. Senate action on Senate File 500 remains uncertain this session per Sen. Rob Hogg.
Bill 643 transfers EPA 319 program budgeting and administration from the Department of Natural Resources to the Department of Agriculture. It shifts Water Resources Coordinating Council oversight to Agriculture and moves water monitoring programs and a $3 million budget from DNR to Agriculture. Amendments seek to drop these provisions.
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