He has granted zero. So this is a process that was given to him that he could utilize in extreme situations for alternative arrangements.

I am from South Dakota, so it is a landlocked State, so I don't hear a lot from my constituents about the National Ocean Policy.

The very last thing that our struggling economy needs is new costs and regulatory burdens on farmers and small businesses across rural America.

I think this piece of legislation the EPA should have no problem with.

there hasn't been that kind of scientific research and data that has shown the detrimental effects of this nuisance dust

I feel so strongly because I think the fact that if there is a piece of legislation out there that guarantees that EPA will not take any action for the next year, that that is a benefit to our small farmers and producers across this…

This bill provides certainty and it provides certainty to a risky business that a lot of farmers and ranchers engage in.

I just wanted to make a statement that certainly the people in South Dakota recognize, widespread they recognize the need for this piece of legislation...

Well, Representative Shimkus, if I could say one thing that Representative Waxman continued to say over and over is that dust is not currently regulated, and it is.

There is growing concern that excess regulations are hampering economic growth and job creation across the country.

My bill is a bipartisan approach to ending the EPA's regulation of farm dust in rural America while still maintaining the protections of the Clean Air Act to the public health and welfare.

I certainly believe that the title of the bill and the language of the bill is very clear that it means to address farm dust and nuisance dust throughout the piece of legislation.

Well, there are 100 cosponsors that are signed on to the bill.

What my statement was or should have been was that the scientific research is very different showing the detrimental effects of urban dust versus rural dust.

Well, Representative Waxman, that editor of that newspaper certainly doesn't represent my farmers and ranchers across South Dakota.

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