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PA Act 38 Odor Management Another way to push farmers out.
Posted by: Equine Tooth Gal Date posted: 01/02/2008 01:37:49 PM |
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Please go to http://www.dsl.psu.edu/centers/aglawpubs/OverviewofAct382.pdf for an explanation of this act which is in essence an odor management plan and applies to existing Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) and Concentrated Animal Operations (CAO). Operations that are NOT in this category as of the date of the act are only required to file plans if they build additions and become a CAFO or CAO and th law only applies to that constructed addition and not to the previous area that was not a CAFO or CAO. Plans can be filed VOLUNTARILY by operations that are not CAFO or CAO.
This act is an effort to please the areas that lose open space to building. It also protects farmers from idiotic local ordinances with regards to the management of their own land by providing finacial aid in the form of grants and support from the Attorney General should a complaint be filed. The oxymoron here is that with the new development, and the overuse of chemicals in concentrated areas to maintain landscaping, there is a nutrient overload in the natural water systems.
Basically, farmers are being blamed and eventually forced out of operation due to the over taxation, pressure from the builders, and pressure from homeowners associations that move into rural areas but can't take the country smell, but are using massive amounts of pollutants on their perfect lawns thereby causing high concentrations of runoff from the overabundance of impervious surfaces and destroying the natural environment.
Basically, if you want to live in the country, expect country odors. All animal owners should be more concerned about the pollutants that are running onto their properties and destroying the delicate balance of nature.
This is an opinion based on facts obtained and I do hope that everyone reads the act in depth before acting and getting yourself into a situation wherein you are being managed by the government, the building industry, and the effort to urbanize the entire East Coast. Please do the research before consulting with any outside agency that may in fact be funded by the building industry.
Just one more way to destroy the environment and please the big money industries. Sounds kind of like NAIS now, doesn't it. |
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