Lawmaker Says EPA's Failure to Update Site Causing Confusion on Oil Spill Rule for Farms

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The Environmental Protection Agency hasn't updated its website to reflect an exemption for farmers from federal oil spill rules-even though Congress made the change last summer, said Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.). The EPA website for the spill prevention control and countermeasures (SPCC) rule at 40 C.F.R. pt. 112 continues to say that farmers must comply with the rules as they apply to all other industries that store, transport, use and consume oil products (RIN 2050-AG16 ). The EPA site says farmers must comply if they have aboveground oil storage capacity of as little as 1,320 gallons.