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Posted June 17, 2014
Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring announced the formation of a regulatory review committee to help farmers and ranchers address the increasing load of federal regulations, according to a Farm & Ranch Guide article available here. A previous blog post on the Clean Water Act federal regulations is available here.
“Agricultural producers are being swamped with federal regulations that impact their operations, increase their costs and reduce their profits,” Goehring said. “I have asked the state’s agricultural organizations and commodity groups to appoint representatives to the committee to study and review proposed regulations with the goal of addressing concerns and defending the agriculture industry.”
Goehring also stated that farmers and ranchers must comply with rules from several federal and state agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The committee will provide input to the North Dakota Department of Agriculture to construct comments on proposed federal and state rules before they are implemented.
“Committee members bring to the table knowledge about specific sectors of our agriculture industry,” Goehring said. “Some, perhaps most, will also be farmers and ranchers themselves with firsthand knowledge of regulatory impacts.”
The meetings and deliberations will be open to the public, and the first meeting will be held in July or August.
For more information on the Clean Water Act, please visit the National Agricultural Law Center’s website here.
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