Epa Publishes Final Rule Exempting Farms From Reporting Animal Waste Emissions

摘要

The Environmental Protection Agency published a final rule Dec. 18 exempting farms from reporting ammonia and other farm animal waste emissions under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (73 Fed. Reg. 76,948).rn"This rule will enable response authorities to better focus their attention on hazardous substance releases that require a response, while reducing reporting burdens on America's farms," EPA said in a statement on the regulation.rnAccording to the rule, the exemption applies to releases of hazardous substances to the air that meet or exceed their reportable quantity "where the source of those hazardous substances is animal waste at farms."