WASHINGTON -- The Sierra Club today welcomed parts of the Clinton Administration's plan to curb water pollution from Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), but expressed disappointment that the proposal doesn't go farther to clean up the industry's practices. The group applauded the Administration's proposal to hold corporate animal owners -- not just the farmers contracted to raise the pigs -- responsible for waste spills and other pollution...
March 9, 1999: Final USDA/EPA
AFO Strategy http://www.epa.gov/owm/finafost.htm
September 1998 EPA/USDA draft proposal
EPA PLAN FOR LARGE 'FACTORY FARMS' CALLED INADEQUATE
http://www.edf.org/pubs/NewsReleases/1998/Mar/c_feedlotregs.html
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's plan to control water
pollution from industrial-sized hog, poultry and other livestock feeding
operations fails to address environmental and public health threats, EDF
and the Southern Environmental Law Center charge.
March 5, 1998: Draft Strategy for Animal Feeding Operations
EPA has released for public comment a draft strategy to minimize the public health and environmental impacts from animal feeding operations. According to the EPA press release of 3/5/98, the draft strategy is the Agency's first action under the Clinton Administration's new Clean Water Action Plan to finish the job of cleaning up the nation's rivers, lakes and streams. A copy of the draft strategy is available on the EPA web site at: http://www.epa.gov/owm/afo.htm . A copy of the Compliance Assurance Implementation Plan is available on the EPA web site at http://es.epa.gov/oeca/strategy.html