E.P.A. Suggests Better Approach to Reporting Hazardous Substances from Farm Animal Waste
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Category: AgricultureType: News
Source: EPA
Date: Friday, December 21st, 2007
(Washington, D.C. - Dec. 21, 2007) E.P.A. has suggested a rule change to provide an administrative reporting exemption for air delivers of hazardous substances -- primarily ammonia and hydrogen sulfide -- from animal waste at farms.
E.P.A. is today proposing a rule enabling response authorities to better focus their attention on hazardous substance delivers that require emergency response while reducing reporting burdens on America's farms. EPA's suggested rule provides an administrative reporting exemption for air delivers of hazardous substances -- primarily ammonia and hydrogen sulfide -- from animal waste at farms. Release notifications must still be made to emergency response authorities when hazardous substances are released to the air from sources other than animal waste (e.g., ammonia tanks), as well as delivers of hazardous substances to soil and water.
Administrative exemptions from particular notification requirements are authorized under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, also known as Superfund) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).
Under Federal Countrywide Contingency Project (NCP) regulations, farms and other facilities are required to report any delivers of hazardous substances above an EPA-established level to the Coast Guard Countrywide Response Center and state and local emergency response authorities.
E.P.A. is proposing to eliminate these reports for air delivers from animal waste at farms because it is unnecessary to respond to such reports. This suggested rule would reduce the burden on the regulated community of complying with these reporting requirements and allow emergency responders to focus on hazardous substance delivers that would require a response.
More information on this suggested rule: http://www.epa.gov/emergencies/content/epcra/cercla_dec07.htm
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