If a law can be abused, you can be 100% certain the Gov't will abuse it

[Libertarian]

Under The Clean Water Act, EPA Says It Can Require Dairy Farmers to Develop and Implement Costly Milk Spill Prevention Plans Because Milk Contains Animal Fat – An OiL

Today, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer released a letter to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urging the agency to exempt dairy farmers from provisions of the Clean Water Act that could require them to develop and implement plans to handle a milk spill – the same provision that requires oil companies to develop plans to deal with oil spills.The EPA claims the authority to require such spill prevention plans because milk contains animal fat – an oil – but Schumer said that Congress meant for these regulations to apply to toxic substances and companies like ExxonMobil and BP, and to oil, not a 75-cow dairy farm and milk. The current administration has been considering a rule exempting farmers from these requirements since January of 2009 but has not yet acted to finalize the ruling.

Should the EPA decide to apply the provision to dairy farmers, it would mean that dairy farms with 1,320 gallons of milk stored would have to develop a spill response plan. The vast majority of farms in New York State meet that threshold. Farms that store below 10,000 gallons of milk could self certify their plan, whereas farms that store over 10,000 gallons of milk would have to have their plans certified by an engineer. This process can cost thousands of dollars.

“Everyone knows that when Congress enacted these laws it was targeting massive oil spills and toxic substances, not an accident involving milk at one of our state’s small dairy farms,” said Schumer. “Mothers tell their children not to cry over spilled milk – farmers certainly shouldn’t have to either. Two years ago the EPA floated the idea of taxing cows as gas emitters and now they are suggesting that milk could be treated as a hazardous material. We convinced them to take the idea of the table back then, and we'll convince them this time too."

http://www.nyfb.org/resources/topic_detail.cfm?ID=223

[Sage The Rage]

All I can think of to say is: "Holy cow!"

[Libertarian]

[Grumpy]

Now THAT is a bunch of bullsnot.
The EPA needs to be abolished as well as a double handful of other alphabet agencies.
Lets abolish Schumer while we're at it.

[Libertarian]

Milk Spill Response Plan

[Grumpy]

[Debear]

Lol!

[barebones]

Yep, I had the same idea. Think I'll go into raising cats for a response team. Think of the money that can be made, and the cats get all the milk that they could possibly want.
Hmm, worth a thought or two.