The EPA’s longstanding Meat and Poultry Effluent Guidelines and Standards will stand. Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that proposed changes to the regulation are unnecessary. In reaching that decision, the agency says existing federal wastewater regulations under the Clean Water Act are effective, and the burdens that proposed changes would inflict on meat and poultry processors are unwarranted. National Pork Producers Council President Duane Stateler said, “We applaud the administration and Administrator Zeldin for this commonsense approach to the Meat and Poultry Processing Rule. This rule would have provided no environmental benefits and been devastating to small and medium-sized meat processors across the country and the livestock farmers counting on them as markets for their animals.” The more significant permitting guidelines would have packed a significant punch for processors by requiring them to upgrade facilities and install costly new wastewater treatment technologies. EPA’s analysis showed most facilities couldn’t afford the required changes.
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