Pesticide spraying near streams to expand under Congressional bill

[cali]

June 21, 2011 | 6:18 pm


A bill allowing pesticide manufacturers and users to avoid the Clean Water Act permitting process passed in the Senate Agriculture Committee today.

If passed in the Senate, bill H.R. 872 lets farmers spray pesticides near public waters without having to meet Clean Water Act permitting requirements.

A 2007 EPA rule allowing all pesticides listed in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to be exempted from Clean Water Act permitting requirements was reversed by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2009.

The amendment, on its way to the Senate floor, reinstates the exemptions, effectively skirting the legal battles over whether pesticide residue is a chemical waste that can be regulated as a pollutant under the Act.


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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/06/house-bill-senate-agriculture-committee-pesticide-clean-water-act-epa.html

[Le Taz Hot]

1. Yes, and my BLUE DOG "DEMOCRAT"

Congresscritter voted "yes." Thanks, assbite!

[enough]

2. k&r (nt)