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Committee concurs with H.632 draft 4.1; agency backs CAFO edits and supports counting grazing toward current use
Summary
The Agency of Agriculture said it aligns with ANR on removing an ambiguous secretary-discretion clause from H.632 (CAFO language) and supports a tax-department proposal to allow grazing fees to count toward current-use thresholds; the committee gave a favorable straw poll to concur with draft 4.1.
The Agriculture committee reviewed draft 4.1 of H.632, a miscellaneous environment and tax bill, and conducted a straw-poll to recommend concurrence with the House Committee on Environment.
Steve Collier of the Agency of Agriculture told members the agency is fully aligned with ANR on removing an earlier provision that would have given undefined discretion to the ANR secretary to designate concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Collier said the latest draft restores language…
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