Local CAFO Review?
Doug Masson has the latest word on action in the Indiana Legislature:
House Bill 1308 Rep. Cheatham. Local review of confined feeding operations. Allows the department of environmental management to approve the construction after May 10, 2007, of a confined feeding operation only if the construction has been approved by the local health department and the local zoning authority. Establishes the procedure for local approval, including an appeal to the county executive of an approval or denial.
Passed 56 to 41.
March 2nd, 2007 11:08
Interesting, but I don’t see what would stop a local zoning board and/or a local health dept. from simply going to IDEM and asking what they should do. Could end up being just more “rubber stamping” for CAFO approval with no real curb on the proliferation of them.