EPA finalizes air release reporting exemption for AFOs

July 31, 2018
EPA is slated to publish in the Aug. 1 Federal Register a direct final rule codifying Congress' recent exemption of animal feeding operations (AFOs) from air toxics release reporting under federal Superfund and community right-to-know laws. In its Register notice , EPA takes steps to conform its regulations to match a statutory change introduced by the 2018 omnibus appropriations act, which contained the Fair Agricultural Reporting Method (FARM) Act. The bipartisan FARM Act amended section 103 of the...


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