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Federal regulations have a direct impact on Ohio farmers and ranchers and those throughout country.

As a general principle, do you think EPA officials should have the right to walk onto a farmer's private property without a farmer's knowledge or permission?

Are you aware of extensive public reporting that landfills will not accept solar panels because they are classified as hazardous materials?

Has the EPA conducted long-term research into the impact solar panels have on agricultural land or farm soil?

Do solar panels contain materials that are considered hazardous by the EPA?

The EPA has become too big, too bloated, and too powerful, and our constituents are ready to cut back your agency to end this abuse.

Farmers don't trust the Federal Government or bureaucrats from the EPA or from D.C.

According to the EPA's own website, solar panels contain hazardous waste, including lead and cadmium that are harmful to human health and the environment.

This Administration absolutely is incentivizing solar panels replacing farming on prime farm ground.

I believe that the Administration should truly be focused on elevating all the forms of energy, and not cutting off productive land uses.

We did pass, I might add, what is called the Clean Act as part of H.R. 1.

The confidence of the oil companies, at least for any kind of new permits, is probably at an all-time low.

I urge the Committee to affirm Congressional intent and fix the misapplication of Section 408.

I urge the committee to affirm congressional intent and fix the misapplication of section 408.

Levee district operators frequently face permitting delays or even denials for routine maintenance and improvements to their levee systems.

There is a proposal--my understanding is that the President put forth in his budget for $104.3 million for the National Park Service to acquire new lands.

Coming from a state where nearly two-thirds of the land mass is Federal or under Federal control, and a state that, on average, over the last 8, 10 years will see 500 million acres burn to wildfire because of, largely, mismanagement…

The levees along the Mississippi River protect critical road and rail infrastructure, thousands of acres of farmland, and countless homes and businesses from routine flooding.