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Committee advances voluntary program to collect and dispose of farm pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers
Summary
A5357 would direct DEP (with Agriculture consultation) to establish a voluntary farm pesticide, herbicide and fertilizer collection and disposal program with at least two collection events per year at strategically located sites; committee amendments added herbicides and fertilizers and require annual reporting to the governor and Legislature.
The committee released A5357, which would require the Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture, to establish a voluntary statewide program to collect, transport and dispose of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers held by commercial farms.
Under the bill as amended, DEP would establish strategically located collection sites in the northern, central and southern…
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