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EPA: planes scan for farm violations
2015-03-28 08:12:45| Agriculture - Topix.net
Susan Hedman, the EPA's Midwest regional administrator, said Friday at a Great Lakes conference her agency has had inspectors in small planes the last three years looking for manure-management violations by large livestock operations known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. Ms. Hedman declined to provide specifics, saying the occasional flyovers are an enforcement tool.
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