(Extracted from Iowa Attorney General’s Office Website)
DES MOINES. Attorney General Tom Miller said today that Lee County District Court Judge Mary Ann Brown has entered judgment against Roquette America, Inc., assessing a $560,000 civil penalty for air pollution violations at Roquette’s corn wet milling facility in Keokuk.
The Court’s order is contained in a [...]
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(From Iowa Legislature’s Administrative Rules Review Committee Digest) From the EPA’s National Agriculture Compliance Assistance Center EPA is proposing two amendments to the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Rule. The first streamlines the regulatory requirements for qualified facilities and equipment regulated under 40 CFR part 112. The second extends the SPCC compliance dates for all facilities. EPA proposes to extend the compliance [...] The EPA has recently published the final “All Appropriate Inquiry” rules, with an effective date of November 1, 2006. [...] Although only counties have regulatory authority over wind siting, the group may recommend a voluntary set of guidelines wind developers should follow when siting turbines in sensitive areas, to allow for maximum economic development in the state with minimum impact on wildlife. [...] (Excerpted from IDNR’s ECONEWSWIRE) DES MOINES – The DNR is seeking public comment on a proposed expansion of the list of major water sources. “These are additions and corrections to an existing list because some stream segments were missing,” said Gene Tinker, coordinator of the DNR’s animal feeding operations program. Tinker added that the changes could have [...] The EPA has announced its decision on Iowa’s 2004 Section 303(d) List (impaired waters), and is giving the public the opportunity to review its decision to add waters back to the state’s 303(d) [...] |
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