MWFPA Testifies on WI Phosophorus Rule
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 07:44
On July 28 MWFPA President Nick George presented testimony, before the WI State Senate Committee on Environment, opposing a proposed rule regulating phosphorus discharge by processing facilities. The regulation is expected to cost in excess of $3 billion statewide and will affect food and diary processors, cheese makers, paper mills and municipal wastewater treatment facilities.
During the five-hour hearing, opponents including representatives from the Cooperative Network, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association and municipalities, stressed that the rule will be expensive, is confusing and unclear, and will not accomplish meaningful reductions in phosphorus.
Expectations are that neither the Senate committee, nor the Assembly committee to which the rule was referred, will take any action. If neither committee objects to the rule either in whole, or in part, it will become law.
MWFPA's testimony can be viewed here.