Famting, Saturday, December 4,1993
Nutrient Management Advisory Board
(Continued from Page A 1)
by Gov. Robert Casey, earlier this
year, the State Conservation Com
mission has set deadlines to
achieve a working program.
The goal is to have an up and
running nutrient management
program by July 1995.
The goals are divided into two
distinct, but interrelated, lines of
attack one is to create nutrient
management regulations; the other
is to create nutrient management
certification regulations.
The By July 1994, the commis
sion is to propose regulations for
both.
The final certification regula
tions are to be done in January
1995, while the final management
regulations are to be done by July
1995.
In all cases, the advisory board
is to review proposals of the com
mission and make
recommendations.
During its previous meeting, the
Nutrient Management Advisory
Board sent back for revision a
proposal for interim criteria.
The version discussed Wednes
day reflected mote the board’s
acceptance of wording to direct the
department of agriculture to create
a certification program.
The sentiments of the board,
which approved the draft with a
split vote by a show of hands, have
been oft-expressed to create a
program that does not make it
overly difficult to achieve certifi-
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The majority of the board said
they felt that it can be expected that
a certified nutrient management
technician should understand defi
ciencies in a plan’s control of
nutrient flow; but at the same time,
it should not be required that a
nutrient management technician
possess expertise in all fields relat
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management plan.
It was expressed that a certified
nutrient management technician
should be able to detect major defi
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of those already required to have
such knowledge to arrive at a
working plan.
It was also stressed that a waric
ing plan should achieve the goal of
surface and groundwater protec
tion from ovemutrification, pri
marily by nitrogen, rather than
merely create a bureaucracy by
which compliance to regulation is
more important than achieving
control of nutrients.
In other business, Geroge
Robinson, representing the poultry
and feed industry, said that a trip to
the Netherlands taken by certain
members of the board and others to
inspect and review nutrient man
agement practices and concerns of
that region was worthwhile.
He explained how the Nether
lands government has instituted
such things as a manure tax, which
is based on an annual balance of
export and import of nutrients onto
a farming operation.
He also said that they have gov
ernment subsidized manure ship
ping of up to 100 miles radius, and
other programs aimed at curtailing
a drinking water pollution
problem.
However, Robinson noted that
the area being below sea level
and maintained with ditches and
dikes is not generally compar
able to farming practices in the
United States.
The board also heard a review of
meetings between representatives
of agencies which are to eventually
coordinate efforts under the Nutri
ent Management Act
According to Vic Funk, on the
staff of the State Conservation
Commission, to date two meetings
were held of the representatives of
the primary agencies involved
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Conservation Districts, the USDA
Soil Conservation Service, and the
USDA Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service. The
most recent meeting was held Nov.
16.
Funk said the purpose of the
meetings was bring together rep
resentatives of each agency and to
"effect some coordination.”
He said the agenda of the meet
ing was to get each agency up to
speed with an understanding of its
possible role in administering the
Nutrient Management Act.
According to Funk, PSU Exten
sion has been developing informa
tion for the public which consists
of general explanations of the
Nutrient Management Act
The SCS is focusing on addi
tional training, as were the others.
The conservation districts, how
ever, have some concerns.
Under the Act, each conserva
tion district may or may not accept
authority for implementation and
enforcement of the Act, depending
on the wishes of each board of
directors for each conservation
district.
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on full enforcement authority is
either a lack of manpower, exper
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which are jointly funded by the
federal, state and county
governments have sought
increased state funding in order to
cany out an increasing amount of
responsibility, such as some dis
tricts perform in reviewing con
struction plans for residential or
commercial projects, working
with the Chesapeake Bay program,
environmental education efforts,
and attempting to monitor earth
moving activities and erosion
control.
Funk said that as a result of the
meeting it was also determined
that there must be some system of
post-coordination; in other words,
after die regulations are in place,
some forum for interagency coor
dination must evolve.
“We must sing out of the same
hymnal or have a lotof confusion,”
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