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Wayne Gilchrest: “Mr. Chairman, one of the earlier speakers made a comment about how this amendment would be bad for the watershed. How I…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2001
Mr. Chairman, one of the earlier speakers made a comment about how this amendment would be bad for the watershed. How I would like to respond to that is that contained in this amendment is a new approach to protecting watersheds so that we do not have to have each individual farmer apply for the conservation programs that will improve water quality, but we can do it with a number of farmers getting together, a number of farmers getting together in one State, or we could do it with a number of farmers getting together in a multi-State region which is protecting, truly, a broad watershed area. So contained in this amendment is a specific program with specific criteria to use agriculture and the conservation program to protect the water quality in a watershed.
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Wayne Gilchrest
Maryland
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Discussing an amendment related to watershed protection during a committee meeting.

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