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Mr. Speaker, today I introduced legislation to address the most important source of water pollution facing our country--polluted runoff.

Moving the tailings will remove the source of the contamination.

These tailings are radioactive and contain high concentrations of ammonia, arsenic, lead, vanadium, selenium, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, and other toxic metals left by the leaching process used to separate uranium from ore.

The bill improves water quality monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting so that the public knows which CAFOs are polluting.