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How many of you are keeping up on the issue of the EPA trying to regulate coarse particulate matter?

This is a cause for concern to those who believe the EPA is a power hungry agency continually looking for ways to build their corner of the national bureaucracy, IMO.

They have long studied (with 180 NEW studies added to the official record) the amount of urban dust and now want to add studies of ag dust despite the fact that the amount of fugitive dust remaining after using Best Management Practices by farm, ranch and cattle operations has never been demonstrated to have adverse impacts on health at ambient levels. That's after 30 YEARS of study! The same is true of urban dust. So, why do they continue this wasate of time????

EPA has admitted the studies and data on which it based its couarse particulate matter proposal were weak, uncertain, limited, and not even adequate to support a health risk assessment.

It is time to ask our Congressmen to put a halt to this debacle of an issue, IMO.

BTW, HR 434 the bill prohibitint the regulation of manure as a hazardous substance also needs attention from cattle producers. You can check this one out at http://hil.beef.org/pdfs/NCBAonCERCLA.pdf.

The proposed ban on processing cull horses for meat for export is also still alive, or was all too recently. That is legislation based solely on emotion, not on sound animal science, and sets dangerous precedent by banning other meats for reasons other than science, safety or public health. I'm going to contact Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R,TX) to tell him that the Energy and Commerce Committee must not consider H.R. 503 for just those reasons.

MRJ
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