Charles W. Stenholm: “I assure him that I will work with him and with OMB to see that they may reexamine those decisions. Second colloquy, I…”

“I assure him that I will work with him and with OMB to see that they may reexamine those decisions. Second colloquy, I know the chairman is aware, again, of the tremendous regulatory burdens facing many of our Nation's livestock producers. In light of these burdens, there is a tremendous need to develop innovative, market-based solutions for livestock-related water quality concerns. A project to do just that has been proposed by a broad coalition of dairy producers, local governments and researchers in the Bosque watershed of central Texas. This project would facilitate evaluation of promising waste utilization technologies and would work to develop markets in order to enhance the value of these by-products. Unfortunately, because their project necessarily involves both research and actual market development, they have found it rather complicated to secure funding under either the research or the rural development categories. I believe this is a worthy project deserving funding from USDA rural development and hope the gentleman from New Mexico would look at this as we go to conference.”