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Regulatory Responses to Potential Pollutants from Animal Feeding Operations: Opting Out of Costly Permitting Regulations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Terence J. Centner  and
Jeffrey D. Mullen
Terence J. Centner
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Jeffrey D. Mullen
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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Abstract

Because of excessive water impairment, federal and state agencies have enacted regulations to reduce water pollution from animal feeding operations. Many of the regulations are based on numbers of animals rather than the potential of an operator to impair water quality. To enhance efficiency, critical production indicators and location screening factors might be used to exempt operations that are not significantly impairing water quality. In this manner, regulations could avoid imposing unnecessary costs on the regulated public and more effectively target monitoring and enforcement resources of the regulatory agency.

Keywords

concentrated animal feeding operationspollutionproduction indicatorsregulationswater impairmentK2K32Q25Q28
Type
Invited Paper Sessions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , August 2004 , pp. 287 - 295
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2004

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