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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
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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
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Pendleton
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Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Vancouver
Yakima
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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
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0s
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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.
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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
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arrangements.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
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