Source:  CAROLINA-VIRGINIA FARMER, 8/9/10

Senate Ag leaders Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., have introduced legislation aimed at clarifying that additional permits are not required for pesticide application in accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. According to Senator Lincoln subjecting farmers, foresters and ranchers to an additional layer of bureaucracy under the Clean Water Act was never the intent of Congress. 

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