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EPA to talk CAFOs
Story Date: 3/6/2012
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Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 3/5/12
The Environmental Protection Agency said late last week it will hold a public meeting March 13 in West Point, Neb., for livestock producers in its Region 7 interested in learning more about its policies on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
Inspections in that region, comprised of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri, are part of the agency’s increased national emphasis on preventing CAFOs from polluting rivers and streams.
“It is important for EPA Region 7 staff to be out in the countryside so we can educate communities about EPA’s job and how inspections support the Agency’s duties," EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks said in an agency news release. “That’s why outreach efforts like this one are so important in obtaining the overall goal of protecting human health and water quality.”
Topics at the meeting include selection of CAFOs for inspection, aerial overflights to assess CAFOs, winter feeding areas, manure stockpiling and nutrient management plans. Larry Howard, of the University of Nebraska Lincoln-Extension, will lead a question-and-answer session.
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