House Proceeding 10-26-09 on Oct 26th, 2009 :: 0:18:50 to 0:21:10
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Norman D. Dicks: please support this motion to instruct. it is absolutely critical not only in agriculture, but for our constituents back home. thank you, mr. speaker, for the time and i yield back balance. mr. dicks: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: i want to give background on this.

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Speech By: Norman D. Dicks

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Norman D. Dicks: i think the gentleman has a perspective and i want to make sure that everyone understands what actually happened here. the e.p.a. administrator signed the proposed rule for mandatory reporting of greenhouse gases from large emission sources in the united states on march 10, 2009. it was published in the federal

0:19:28 to 0:19:51( Edit History Discussion )

Norman D. Dicks: register on april 10 of 2009. e.p.a. received almost 17,000 written comments on the proposal and heard from approximately 60 people at the two public hearings. the final rule reflects changes the e.p.a. made as it carefully considered and responded to significant comments.

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Norman D. Dicks: now, what has happened here is that the thousands of small farmers have been -- would be exempted and only the 90 largest manure management systems in the country would be required to report their emissions, those that annually emit as much greenhouse gases as 58,000

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Norman D. Dicks: barrels of oil. it is important for e.p.a. to receive information from these systems because e.p.a. needs reliable data on the greenhouse gas emissions from major facilities in all industries if we are going to be able to base our climate policy on a solid and thorough understanding of the problem.

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Norman D. Dicks: , which is very close to where i think the conferees are going to come out does the right thing. it exempts thousands of smal farmers, but on the ones that have enormous operations where large amounts they have to report. i think that's reasonable. and the process is reasonable.

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Norman D. Dicks: congress directed that this be done. it was our committee that required a greenhouse gas registry so we could make these