Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Environmental Quality
 
Board
State Water Control Board
 
chapter
Virginia Pollution Abatement Regulation and General Permit for Poultry Waste Management [9 VAC 25 ‑ 630]
Chapter is Exempt from Article 2 of the Administrative Process Act
Action Develop requirements that will address concerns regarding transfer and off-site management of poultry waste in the Commonwealth.
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 8/21/2009
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7/30/09  6:54 pm
Commenter: David Bernard, Virginia Chapter Sierra Club, Water Quality Chair

We support revised poultry litter regulations
 

On behalf of the approximately 16,000 Sierra Club members in Virginia, I register our support for tighter regulation of poultry litter in Virginia.    It is essential that the resources contained in poultry litter be properly managed so that our water is not polluted by runoff coming from land that has too much poultry litter applied and land that is too close to water for the nutrients to be absorbed by the land before runoff occurs.    The nutrient pollution coming from poultry litter represents a big waste of resources - the poultry feed and the labor and resources that produced that feed.   The USA can not afford either water pollution nor can it afford the waste of nitrogen and phosphorus resources.


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