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NCBA Battles WOTUS, South American Imports and Dietary Guidelines- We Talk With Kristina Butts

Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:02:53 CDT

NCBA Battles WOTUS, South American Imports and Dietary Guidelines- We Talk With Kristina Butts The battle over the 'Waters of the United States' or Clean Water Rule continues. Agricultural organizations like the National Cattlemen's Beef Association have been fighting 'WOTUS' on Capitol Hill and they have filed lawsuits to stop the regulation from being implemented in August. Speaking at the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Convention Thursday, National Cattlemen's Beef Association Executive Director of Legislative Affairs Kristina Butts said NCBA is trying to stop the regulation from taking effect. In June, there was hope that the House would take up the interior appropriations bill that would not allow the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enforce the final 'WOTUS' rule. Butts said unfortunately that bill was pulled from the floor, so now negotiations are taking place on a spending bill beyond this fiscal year. She said there is also standalone legislation that has passed the House, and opponents to the Clean Water Rule are looking for similar opportunities in the Senate to move that legislation forward, but time is quickly passing by. After the August recess, Butts said there are only eight to ten days that Congress will be back in session before the end of the fiscal year.


NCBA is also involved with a broad coalition to stop the EPA and Army Corps from implementing this rule. NCBA has been joined by the American Farm Bureau Federation, National Pork Producers Council and Public Lands Council, along with other producer and land use groups in filing litigation. The coalition has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas against the EPA and Army Corps over the 'WOTUS' final rule.


NCBA also continues to take a stand over the health and safety of the U.S. cattle herd. Recently, U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service released their final rules for the importation of fresh beef from northern Argentina and a region in Brazil. With this step by the Obama Administration, these areas that have a known history of Foot-and-Mouth disease would be allowed to begin the inspection process to import fresh and frozen beef products into the United States. Butts says that NCBA is pro-trade, but the organization has concerns over importing beef from this part of the world. NCBA supports the language that has been attached to the House and Senate agricultural appropriations bills that would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct a more thorough risk assessment of that region before fresh beef could be imported into the U.S. from South America.


Radio Oklahoma Ag Network Farm Director Ron Hays sat down and talked with Kristina Butts of the Washington office of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. Butts is attending and taking part in the 63rd annual Convention of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association in Midwest City. You can hear their conversation on WOTUS, Tax Extenders, South American Beef Import Concerns and Dietary Guidelines by clicking on the LISTEN BAR below.


   
   


Ron Hays talks with NCBA's Kristina Butts about WOTUS, Dietary Guidelines and more.
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