If EPA is put in charge of offsets and USDA does not have a significant role in the implementation of offsets, we will oppose that, as well.
We have argued that you could bring up the support prices that really serve as the safety net when times are tough.
The shallow-loss issue has been one that has vexed, I think, everyone for a long, long time.
[t]he Corps, through our pilot study, found no basis to claim that reverse auctioning provided any significant or marginal savings over a tr...