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EPA's Chesapeake Bay restoration strategy due Wed.
Associated Press
09/10/09 9:47 PM PDT
WASHINGTON — Expanded regulation of factory-farmed animals, municipal stormwater runoff and requirements that increases in pollution be offset by reductions from other sources are among the recommendations in draft reports from federal agencies on restoring the Chesapeake Bay.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said details on items such as how many more animal feeding operations would be regulated have not been decided.
The EPA head said in a conference call announcing the release of the reports Thursday that they will be used to develop a bay restoration strategy scheduled for release Nov. 9. The strategy was mandated by an executive order issued earlier this year by President Obama.
