MO DNR Rules That Hog CAFO Air Quality Rules Only Apply To Very Largest Sites

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JEFFERSON CITY • The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has blocked an attempt to rein in emissions from concentrated animal feeding operations in the state. In September, Missouri residents submitted petitions to the state, asking the Air Conservation Commission to issue new rules requiring owners of the feeding operations, known as CAFOs, to prepare odor control plans and limit hazardous emissions if the CAFO is within a mile of a school, residence or church.

Along with their petitions, the residents presented two affidavits from scientists attesting to the harmful health effects of emissions from the operations, which include hydrogen sulfide and ammonia. Missouri's so-called "Odor Rule" for CAFOs only applies to the state's largest operations. The petitioners said planned CAFOs in Grundy, Callaway and Lewis counties would not trigger the rule because they would not house enough livestock.

"All are located close to residential areas, all generate massive quantities of hog manure and wastes, and all will generate significant unregulated odorous emissions," one petition said.

In a Nov. 22 letter to Stephen Jeffery, an environmental lawyer who represents residents opposed to CAFOs, Kyra L. Moore, DNR's air pollution control director, said that the agency would not allow the proposed regulations to go into effect.

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1. make these farmers have an anaerobic digester capable of

processing allllllll their manure.
one of my pet peeves that this highly chemically active material is not used. it could be feedstock for many chemicals. it could provide enough methane to sell. and they could end up w clean, safe soil amendments.