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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2015 Feed programs can opt for state water-quality permits Livestock operations can opt out of federal permit system con¿ ned animal feeding opera tion program. “We don’t have to inform the public of changes on the farm,” he said. Vegan and environmental opposition ([pansion plans at sever al Oregon dairies recently met with opposition from vegan and environmental groups, which used the public comment pro cedures to object to the feeding operations as inhumane and un healthy. Livestock groups were con cerned by the backlash because the public disclosures include maps and other data about the feeding operations , which they fear will be exploited by animal rights activists. 6tate permits may be prefer able for livestock operators who don’t want to be part of the fed eral Clean Water Act permitting system, but roughly 80 percent of the 522 feeding operations in Oregon are expected to remain federally permitted, Matthews said. These feeding operations generally prefer to stick with the By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Bureau 6$L(0 ² &on¿ ned an imal feeding operations in Oregon can now work under stateissued water Tuality per mits instead of the federal Clean Water Act permitting system. As of Oct. 21, the Oregon Department of Agriculture has made available “water pollution control facilities” permits to livestock operations that don’t discharge runoff into surface waters. These state permits won’t reTuire animal feeding opera tions to ¿ le annual reports to farm regulators, thus reducing paperwork, and they won’t be subMected to public no ticeandcomment reTuirements if they e[pand, said Wym 0at thews, manager of the state’s Mateusz Perkowski/Capital Press A worker at the Threemile Canyon Farms’ dairy in Boardman milks cows on a rotating carousel system. Oregon has recently adopted new state permits for dairies and other confined animal feeding operations. federal permits for legal reasons, he said. Operating under a federal “national pollutant discharge elimination system” permit protects feeding operations from citi]en lawsuits for al leged violations of the Clean Water Act, he said. “You can’t get that with a state per mit.” Warming center to hold open house United Methodist Church, 106 Franklin St., in the low er level of the church . The public is welcome to visit the center to see how it will function, and what ser vices it hopes to offer. Those who would like to volunteer to help with operating the The Daily Astorian The Astoria Warming Center is holding an o pen h ouse from 5:0 to p.m. Friday and from 10:0 a.m. to noon Saturday. The location of the cen ter for this winter is the First Tonight w arming c enter this winter will have an opportunity at the o pen h ouse to sign up for training sessions, which are being held in early Novem ber. For information, email drewherzig@gmail.com or call 5025185. Mostly cloudy with brief showers late 52° Wednesday Oregon Weather Shown is tomorrow’s weather. Temperatures are tonight’s lows and tomorrow’s highs Portland 52/61 Corvallis 47/63 Eugene 48/63 Salem 49/62 Albany 48/62 Ontario 36/59 Bend 39/54 Thursday Occasional rain 52° Friday Saturday Cloudy, a little rain; breezy in the p.m. 62° 52° Klamath Falls 41/55 55° Periods of rain, some heavy 62° 50° Sun and Moon Astoria through Monday. Temperatures High ........................................... 62° Low ............................................ 46° Normal high ............................... 58° Normal low ................................. 43° Precipitation Yesterday ................................ 0.24" Month to date .......................... 2.54" Normal month to date ............. 4.64" Year to date ........................... 33.78" Normal year to date .............. 44.88" Sunset tonight .................. Sunrise Wednesday ......... Moonrise today ................ Moonset today ................. Regional Cities City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newport North Bend Today Hi Lo W 58 28 s 59 39 pc 61 53 c 64 48 pc 61 55 pc 63 41 pc 67 49 pc 60 52 pc 65 53 pc National Cities City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC Hi 59 55 59 62 56 62 80 35 87 59 56 81 84 66 86 62 78 59 74 63 62 61 68 63 59 Today Lo W 57 r 44 s 51 r 31 pc 46 r 50 c 53 s 25 c 76 s 52 r 48 sh 60 pc 65 pc 59 r 76 pc 58 r 64 c 53 pc 49 pc 55 pc 55 r 39 s 60 c 51 pc 55 r Last New 6:09 p.m. 7:50 a.m. 6:42 p.m. 7:51 a.m. City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Vancouver Yakima Today Hi Lo W 60 46 pc 62 40 s 65 52 pc 68 53 pc 63 49 pc 63 55 pc 55 36 pc 63 50 pc 63 42 pc Wed. Hi Lo W 58 49 r 56 47 pc 61 53 r 66 50 r 62 52 r 61 55 r 56 43 r 60 53 r 59 41 sh Wed. Lo W 58 c 56 r 37 r 32 s 36 c 42 r 55 s 25 c 75 pc 40 sh 34 pc 60 pc 61 pc 50 pc 74 sh 51 c 65 pc 64 r 44 s 61 r 43 c 45 pc 57 c 51 sh 60 r Oct 27 Nov 3 Nov 11 Nov 18 Tonight's Sky: Wednesday morning, a rare, three planet conjunction of Venus, Mars and Jupi- ter will all form a triangle in the early morning sky. Source: Jim Todd, OMSI Tomorrow’s Tides Astoria / Port Docks Time High 2:32 a.m. 8.6 ft. 2:19 p.m. 9.9 ft. Time 8:21 a.m. 9:09 p.m. Low 1.0 ft. -1.6 ft. Warm Showers Rain Flurries Snow Ice -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Forecast high/low temperatures are given for selected cities. Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. APPLIANCE AND HOME FURNISHINGS 529 SE MARLIN, WARRENTON Mattresses, Furniture 3 A 0 RS O VER IN & More! egon Legislature or voters can limit individual campaign contributions, did not make it out of the Senate Committee on Rules during the Legisla ture’s most recent session. A story on 1A Monday was in correct. boy, Hudson Lee 1unne maker, born at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Asto ria. Grandparents are Dean and Donna Nunnemaker of Astoria. RICHARDS, Lawrence Charles, , of Astoria, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s LuceLayton Mortuary in Astoria is in charge of the ar rangements. Oct. 26, 2015 HERLIN, Nancy E., , of Astoria, died in Astoria. Cald well’s LuceLayton Mortuary in Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. $VWRULD 7UDI¿F 6DIHW\ Advisory Committee, 60 p.m., City Hall, 105 Duane St. Astoria Planning Com- mission, immediately follow ing traf¿ c safety committee, City Hall, 105 Duane St. ation Board, 65 a.m., ARC, 1555 W. Marine Dr. Clatsop County Hous- ing Authority Board, 5 p.m., Judge Guy Boyington Building, 85 Commercial St. Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, 6 p.m., Judge Guy Boyington Build ing, 85 Commercial St. 503-861-0929 HOURS OPEN: MON-FRI 8-6 • SATURDAY 9-5 • SUNDAY 10-4 We Service What We Sell WEDNESDAY Astoria Parks and Recre- Lotteries Stationary PACKAGE DEALS TSOP C LA U Y C O NT TUESDAY Clatsop Care Health Dis- trict Board, noon, Clatsop Care Retirement 9illage, Olney Ave. Astoria Library Board, 50 p.m., Astoria Public Li brary Flag Room, 50 10th St. Warrenton City Com- mission, 6 p.m., 225 S. Main Ave. Cold APPLIANCE YE Oct. 25, 2015 JACOBSON, Florence E., 10, of Astoria, in Astoria. HughesRansom Mortuary in Astoria is in charge of the ar rangements. Fronts T-Storms To volunteer, sponsor a clean up, or join the CHIPin email list, contact Melissa .eyser at chipin@astoria. or.us or 501565. CHIPin has other volunteer opportunities available, with monthly park clean ups as well as park adoption. Information is available on the Astoria Parks and Recreation Facebook page and at www.astoriaparks.com Public meetings Tomorrow’s National Weather Hi 74 57 57 63 54 63 76 33 89 63 60 80 81 75 85 71 79 66 68 70 63 62 67 57 71 age with an opportunity to trade in their Halloween candy for prizes and sugarfree alter natives. Volunteers, who will be provided with Tshirts, snacks, beverages, and all tools neces sary to complete the tasks, will be sprucing up the park with improvements such as hedging, mowing, trimming and remov ing trees, and picking up trash. First Under the Sky Wed. Hi Lo W 56 32 pc 54 38 c 60 50 c 63 50 r 61 55 r 55 33 sh 64 46 c 59 52 r 63 52 r change Deaths Almanac Full Astoria Parks and Recre ation has announced that Cit izens Helping Improve Parks CHIPin is cleaning up Pio neer Cemetery Park from 1 to p.m. Sunday and volunteers are needed. The event — at 1th Street and Madison Avenue — also provides participants of any Oct. 18, 2015 1U11EMA.ER, Dea na and Jared, of Astoria, a Burns 30/57 Mainly cloudy with a shower 61° major Birth Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 62° The Daily Astorian Bill status incorrect — Senate Joint Resolution 5, which would have put to a vote in 201 whether the Or Pendleton 40/56 Medford 49/64 Annual soil samples Another CORRECTION The Dalles 45/59 Astoria 52/62 is why Oregon is making the state permits available, Mat thews said. However, once a feeding operation is found to discharge into surface water, it must switch over to the federal per mit system, he said. CHIPin looking for volunteers for cleanup ACCUWEATHER ® FORECAST FOR ASTORIA Astoria 5-Day Forecast Oregon began reTuiring all feeding operations to operate under the federal system in 2002 due to regulatory changes at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, he said. Federal court decisions have since held that EPA can’t reTuire pollution discharge permits for operations that don’t actually discharge, which that will affect both state and federal feeding operation per mits is that operations will be reTuired to test soil sam ples every year to ensure the ground isn’t being overload ed with nutrients, Matthews said. Previously, such tests were reTuired once every ¿ ve years. “The sampling basically validates the nutrient man agement system,” he said. Dairies and other feeding operations are allowed to broadcast manure on ¿ elds as long as nitrogen and other nutrients are applied at rates that are taken up by crops and don’t enter the water. Under the new testing re Tuirement, operators must test at least 20 percent of their ¿ elds a year, and they must test different ¿ elds each year, Matthews said. The state also has the op tion of reTuiring annual tests of all their ¿ elds, if it’s seen as necessary, he said. 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