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Committee reviews differences in CAFO bills, oversight, and corrective-action timeline
Summary
Committee staff discussed differences between S.100 and H.146 on concentrated animal feeding operations, including whether permits should be triggered by a discharge or by farm size, definitions of "waters," and an ANR corrective-action timeline submitted to EPA covering 2025–2028.
The Natural Resources & Energy Committee continued a technical review of two bills addressing concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), S.100 and H.146, focusing on how permits would be triggered, which definition of "waters" would apply and a corrective-action timeline ANR submitted to EPA.
The central question under discussion was whether a CAFO permit should be required only when there is a discharge to waters (the approach reflected in S.100, staff said) or whether H.146 should require a permit for medium- and large-scale operations based solely on size. Speaker 2, Staff member, said the bills differ on that point: H.146 would require a permit for medium and large farms without a prior finding of a discharge, while S.100 ties the permitting trigger to a determination that a discharge has occurred.
Speaker 2 said the Agency of…
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