EPA Region 7 announced today that it has issued administrative compliance orders to six concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, directing those operations to correct a range of violations of the federal Clean Water Act. Region 7’s latest round of CAFO enforcement activity, aimed at encouraging producers’ compliance with the Clean Water Act and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting program, involves five beef feedlots, including three in Nebraska, one in Kansas, and one in Iowa; and an egg layer operation in Nebraska...more
A source sends along this information:
"Sounds like one of them is facing significant (i.e. tens of thousands) in fines. We heard one of the others is trapped in a fight between NDEQ and EPA over mgt of stormwater runoff from their feed storage area. The other rumor is that EPA found these operation by doing flyovers, a practice they started under the Obama administration but the first that I'm aware of them doing flyovers in Nebraska. Not good news."
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