AR-News: (US AR) State Rules Called Better Than Federal Judge Deciding

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Wed, Mar 3, 2004 
More Hearings Planned After Poultry Growers Edit Regulations, Director Tells 
Farmers 
By Scott F. Davis 
The Morning News/NWAonline.net • sdavis at nwaonline.net 
 
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DECATUR -- On his first day on the job in 1985, Randy Young, executive 
director of the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission, co-chaired a 
water-quality hearing in Fayetteville. 
Oklahoma officials and residents said then they did not want Fayetteville's 
wastewater flowing into the Illinois River. That fight was eventually settled 
by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in 1992 that a downstream state has a 
right to set water-quality standards that apply to an upstream state. 
Young told about 60 Benton County farmers Tuesday at the 37th Annual 
Conservation Study Day program the 1992 ruling is "a factor in where we are today." 
The four new rules the commission is in the process of developing to enforce 
three new laws passed last year are part of the water-quality deal reached 
with Oklahoma in December. 






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