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E-M:/ Ohio Agrees NPDES Permits for CAFOs!!
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Enviro-Mich message from <anne.woiwode@sfsierra.sierraclub.org>
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Enviro-Mich:
From Ohioans -- Important note: Ohio was ALREADY requiring State
permits for some Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), so
they were already well ahead of Michigan. Meanwhile, evidently
Michigan continues to believe that a Bush in the White House means no
protection for water quality and health in Michigan from CAFOs, so
they will sit on their fannies until after the election regarding what
Ohio EPA just agreed to do. AW
The OHio EPA is now agreeing with the feds and will begin requiring NPDES
permits for all farms over 1000 animal units. They even have plans to
require NPDES permits for farms under 1000 a.u. by 2002 if they are harming
the waters of the state and don't take any corrective action. See the story
below:
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Big farms to follow federal rules
State EPA agrees to require permits for known polluters
Tuesday, October 31, 2000
Michael Hawthorne and Paul Souhrada
(Columbus) Dispatch Staff Reporters
Under pressure from federal officials and environmentalists, the Ohio
Environmental Protection Agency will start regulating Buckeye Egg Farm and
large-scale feedlots as it does factories and sewage-treatment plants.
http://www.dispatch.com/news/newsfea00/oct00/478529.html
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