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SUPPORT:  Banning EPA Encroachment – HR 7079 

ByPete Kennedy, Esq.
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House Resolution 7079 (H.R. 7079) – “Banning EPA’s Encroachment on Facilities Act”

EPA has issued a proposed rule on effluent limitations for meat and poultry processors that looks like it could be interpreted to apply EPA sewer requirements to all meat and poultry processing plants, even small custom processors. Many of the rural processors don’t have a municipal sewer option within miles. Currently, only a fraction of the nation’s meat and poultry processing plants are under these EPA sewer requirements. The proposed EPA rules are, in effect, another attack on the meat and poultry supply and local meat infrastructure. 

H.R. 7079 provides, “The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not finalize, implement, enforce the proposed rule, entitled “Clean Water Act Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Meat and Poultry Products Point Source Category” signed by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on December 13, 2023 or any substantially similar rule.”

HR 7079 currently has 7 cosponsors.

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Pete is an attorney in Sarasota, Florida, who works on state legislation and policy regarding raw milk, cottage foods, food sovereignty, and on-farm/custom slaughter of meat and poultry–consulting on efforts to change state administrative regulations and policies.

He has worked on successful state legislation in all these areas. He has also worked on numerous matters for farmers at the administrative level involving FDA and USDA, state health and agriculture departments, and local health departments to protect farmers threatened by enforcement actions such as handling food seizures, embargo and recall cases, right-to-farm and zoning issues as well as problems with local ordinances.

Pete was a founding board member of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) and served as vice president and then president for many years while also providing member services. He currently consults on policy and legal matters for the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) and serves on the board of directors. Pete hosts the Solari Report Food Series audiocasts and is the executive director for the Food Freedom Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

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