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“I am not questioning the good lady's credentials from the farming State of Minnesota. But certainly given time, as this process moves forward, she will become intimately familiar with this law as it is being interpreted. It is already happening in other parts of the country, and I would offer this amendment to help preclude the wrongful use of the law and ask my colleagues for strong consideration. I yield back the balance of my time. Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chairman, I will just read into the Record from January 15, 2015, Spokane, Washington: A Federal judge has ruled that a large industrial dairy in eastern Washington has polluted drinking water through its application, storage, and management of manure in a case that could set precedents across the Nation. U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice of Spokane ruled Wednesday that the pollution posed an ``imminent and substantial endangerment'' to the environment and to people who drink the water. Rice wrote that he ``could come to no other conclusion than that the dairy's operations are contributing to the high levels of nitrate that are currently contaminating--and will continue to contaminate . . . the underlying groundwater.'' ``Any attempt to diminish the dairy's contribution to the nitrate contamination is disingenuous, at best,'' Rice wrote in the 111-page opinion, in which he granted partial summary judgment in favor of environmental groups that sued the dairy.…”