Update on EPA's Concentrated Animal
Feeding Operations (CAFO) Regulations

Ralph W. Summers
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7

  1. INTRODUCTION - Description of EPA Regulatory Involvement
    1. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit Program
    2. Federal and State Programs Relationship
  2. CURRENT ACTIVITIES and STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
    1. EPA Animal Feeding Operation (AFO) Strategy
    2. Gore Action Plan
    3. Why Now?
  3. NPDES CAFO REGULATIONS
    1. Definition of a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO)
      1. What does it say now?
      2. Possible changes
      3. Procedures for making changes to the definition
      4. Schedule
    2. Feedlot Effluent Guidelines
      1. What is required now?
      2. Possible changes
      3. Study of Effluent Guideline, Regulation development
      4. Schedule
  4. HOW WILL STRATEGIES, ACTION PLANS, and CHANGES TO EPA REGULATIONS AFFECT:
    1. U. S. EPA
    2. State Environmental Agencies
    3. Livestock Producers
References:

U. S. EPA, April 1995. Guide Manual on NPDES Regulations for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. EPA 833-B-95-001.

Copies of the proposed EPA Animal Feeding Operation Strategy, the above referenced manual, and other EPA documents are located on the internet at www.epa.gov/owm.

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