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Sludge
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sluge or have much land suitable foi the land application of sludge, ‘it was not a pleasant couple of days,” he said. “It’s being pushed as a farmei bill, but it’s not, it’s a big companj bill.”
He said that another concern he shares with the Virginia Associatior of Counties is that this is anothei example of the state taking powei away from local governments.
He noted that the suit against the county for banning sludge had nol been successful in Federal Court and probably would not win in state court either. Bio-Gro wasn’t winning ir court, he said, “so they’re trying to win in the legislature.”
Piedmont District representative Charles K. “Pete” Estes said the Senate Bill “is not in the best interests of the people of Rappahannbck County. I would have to view this as special interest legislation.”
Robert Anderson, StonewallHawthorn District representative, said that in voting for the ban he was trying to represent what the people of his district want. Althou|h he is president of the local Farm Bureau, he said, he felt his obligation was to represent the people of his district not the Farm Bureau. “I don’t think the statewide Farm Bureau has the feeling of a local population like this,” he said. “As much as they push this sludge thing, it’s going to alienate people toward farm use taxes. I think this is going to hurt counties like us that have fewer farmers.”
He noted that the supervisors had spent a lot of time investigating issues related to the land application of sludge before voting. The members of the state senate have not had an equal opportunity to explore the issue, he
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