D2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 3,1981
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The
Board of Directors of Livestock
Marketing Association voted
unanimously here recently to ask
for public hearings on the p
and Stockyards Administrations
internal review of K&S Act
regulations and policy statements.
In a petition to U.S. Department
of Agriculture Secretary John R.
Block, LMA’s law firm noted that
the P&S review “Task Force” was
composed solely of P&S employees
and two attorneys from the USDA
Office of General Council.
The petition is critical of the lack
of industry representation on the ’
Task Force. “Very few” of the
persons who took part in 1980’s
238.5 million livestock transactions
in the U.S. "have had any way to
present their views” to the internal
Task Force, the petition said.
Because this present review
“will have a significant impact on
the entire livestock industry of this
country,” LMA wants nationwide
Stream protection seminars
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LANCASTER - What local
agencies are doing to help protect
Lancaster County streams will be
the topic of a meeting on Thursday,
October 8, 1981, at the Lancaster
Farm and Home Center
auditorium, 1383 Arcadia Road,
Lancaster, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The session is the last of three on
stream protection measures
sponsored jointly by the Lancaster
County Conservation District, the
Lancaster County Planning
Commission, the Penn State
Cooperative Extension Service,
and the Conestoga Valley
Association.
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LMA want Packers & Stockyards public hearing
public hearings “so that those
persons who will be affected by the
regulations” can offer their views,
the petition said.
LMA’s petition also said there
has been “little progress made,
and few tangible results” since
P&S began reviewing current
regulations and policy statements
in December, 1979. That review
was begun in response to federal
law and a presidential executive
order, LMA officials pointed out.
The review of over 130
regulations has resulted in “minor,
cosmetic changes” in four of them
in 21 months, the petition said.
LMA President Lemmy Wilson,
speaking to the Directors at their
Sept. 18 meeting, said he was
“amazed” when he learned that no
one from any sector of the
livestock industry had been asked
to contribute their knowledge and
experience to the Task Force’s
deliberations.
Tom Johnston, administrator of
the Lancaster County Con
servation District, will discuss the
Rural Clean Water Program for
the Conestoga headwaters. Other
discussion will focus on the roles of
the Lancaster County Planning
Commission and watershed
associations in protecting streams
in Lancaster County.
Anyone with any questions about
the meeting or about stream
protection measures in Lancaster
County should contact Linda J.
Reekie, Assistant County Planner,
at the Lancaster County Planning
Commission, 717/299-8333.
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In spite of this, the Task Force’s
82-page report has been given wide
circulation throughout the entire
livestock industry and to state
government officials, -LMA of
ficials said.
Members of the Task Force were
Harold Davis, chief of P&S’s
marketing practices branch;
Kenneth Stricklin, chief of the
livestock procurement branch;
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used as the basic guidelines for the
P&S’s revised review of the P&S
regulations.” This revised review
is scheduled to be completed by the
close of fiscal 1983, according U
P&S officials.
“Meaningful, substantive’
comments from the livestock in
dustry are needed "so that reviev
can proceed to completion,” th<
petition said.