96—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. June 4,1977
Environmental board moves to allow farmer exemption
HARRISBURG
Environmental Quality
Board late last month
approved changes in
Department of
Environmental Resources
water quality management
regulations to allow farmers
who adhere to practices in a
newly-developed manual on
Manure Management for
Environmental Protection to'
be exempted from some
permit requirements.
The Environmetal Quality
Board is an {dependent 21-
member panel of executive
agency officials, legislators
and citizens who approve all
regulations to be
administred by the
Department of -
Environmental Resources.
The new manual was
developed by a Work Group
of the Department’s
Agricultural Advisory
Committee as well as the Soil
Conservation Service,,
Extension Service of The
Pennsylvania State
University, Agricultural
Stablization and
Conservation Service,
Pennsylvania Farmers
Association and others. It
describes techniques wlpch
can be used in managing
manure'from all species of
animals while protecting the
environment.
Under the regulations
changes, farmers who use
the practices outlined In the
manual would be exempted
from permits for storing and
applying manure.
Nothing in the regulations
or elsewhere requires
farmers to use the maure
management practices
outlined in the manual and a
farmer may choose to use
practices other than those
described.
Those choosing to use
other practices, however,
should check with the
appropriate DER regional
water quality management
office before doing so.
Those who worked on the
manual point out that there
is no intention to force
farmers into a storage-type
management system and
thus daily hauling still is
Yet despite the nutritional
value of milk and its
products, the “real” cost of
milk has declined. In 1960,
13.1 minutes labor was
required to buy one-half
gallon whole milk at the
grocery. In February 1974,
11.0 minutes were required
to buy one-half gallon of
milk. Or to put it another
way, the “real cost” of milk
bought in one-half gallon
containers is no more than it
was in 1966 or 1967.
acceptable as a manure
management technique.
The material in the
manual is planned to be
sufficient to allow a farmer
to design and complete a
system without seeking
professional help.
Farmers interested in
obtaining a free copy of the
manual should contact any
.Extension agent or DER
regional water quality
management office.
In other action the board
moved to adopt new
regulations which
completely revise the State’s
regulations on solid waste
management.
Approval for the revised
solid waste management
‘ regulations came after the
Board was briefed on
comments on the proposed
changes which had been
received over the past three
months and the reaction of
the DER Division, of Solid
Waste Management to those
comments.
Rather than making major
substantive changes, the
new chapter basically sets
down in writing the
guidelines and operating
conditions which were
considered and used by DER
in the last several years.
The Environmental
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The satisfaction that cones
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It’s a great feeling to know that you are the master ofj
your farmlands... that when you treat your soil right,j
it will treat you right. Liming is one of the most im-i
portant factors in keeping your soil in the highest
productive range. A good pasture with a pH of 6.5 or
higher, for example, will make 300 to 400 lbs. of beef
per acre and produce up to $lOO gross income per acre.
'This means with the help of lime, profits from pastures
can compare favorably with feed or grain crops.
Quality Board also approved
modifications to the State’s
' erosion and sedimentation
control regulations and
agreed to publish in the
Pennsylvania Bulletin to
receive public comment
additional changes to the
erosion and sedimentation
control regulations, changes
in regulations for Presque
Isle State Park and proposed
new topics for consideration
in environmental master
planning.
Adopted were changes in
definitions in the erosion and
sedimentation control
regulations and a provision
that any person or
municipality who has
applied to a conservation
district for an erosion and
sedimentation control plan
or a conservation plan before
July 1 will be considered in
compliance with the
regulation deadline of July 1,
1977 for plowing and tilling,
activities in agriculture.
Approved for publication
to receive public comment
were two provisons of the
proposed erosion and
sedimentation control
regulations. The first
indicates that in the case of
agricultural plowing and
tilling, a landowner is
responsible for developing
and implementing the
erosion and sedimentation
control plan but may
delegate his obligation to
implement the plan or parts
of the plan to a tenant or
leasee -by written
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The other section revises
the criteria for exemption
from the permit requirement
to say no permit is needed if
an earthmoving activity
affects or disturbs less than
25 acres or if an activity
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