Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, June 10, 2000, Image 37

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    Groups Raise Fears, Set Meeting
About New EPA Runoff Rule
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creasing landowner costs, and
making it harder to use land
than to sell it, will drive more
open, form and forestland into
development, the opposite of
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EPA would have unprecedented
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thority, coalition members say.
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pipe sources. Each source has
had a distinct approach, over
sight and rules to improve and
protect water quality. Under the
new rule, EPA can redefine farm
and forest activities as “point”
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sources, which would require
landowners to go through a fed
eral permitting process for cer
tain activities.
With the rule, EPA sets total
maximum daily loads or
TMDLs. TMDLs calculate the
maximum amount of pollution
that a waterbody can receive to
meet standards. A TMDL is the
sum of all of the allowable loads
of a single pollutant from all
contributing sources, point and
nonpoint. It contains reductions
to meet water quality standards
and allocated reductions among
the sources in the watershed, ac
cording to the EPA.
Some Congressional legisla
tion already has been introduced
to halt or postpone the rule,
which EPA plans to implement
this summer.
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