09/09/2018
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"RCRA, or the Resource Conservation Recovery Act, was never intended to apply to manure or crop residue returned to the soil as fertilizer or soil conditioner."
"The purpose of this bill is not to shield agricultural operations from RCRA citizen suits, but rather to ensure that if state or federal regulators are otherwise seeking compliance through civil, crim..."
"Citizen lawsuits were intended to put citizens in place of the regulators if the regulators failed to do their jobs."
"To help address the issue, Congressman Newhouse introduced the Farm Regulatory Certainty Act, which now has 65 bipartisan cosponsors in the House."