Some Good Things for Agriculture Came out of NC's General Assembly

North Carolina's Ag Commissioner Steve Troxler says that the General Assembly adopted several pieces of legislation affecting the state's agricultural industry this session.  One of those bill exempts certain small-scale processing of agricultural products from wastewater permit requirements.  This law basically says that a farmer or other agribuiness doing small-scale processing of their own products will not need to get a permit for the system they use to treat and dispose of the wastewater produced from those processing activities.

The legislation applies to any small-scale processing of value-added products from agricultural commidities.  Some examples would be smale-scale winemaking, cheese making and vegetable processing.

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