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Lawsuit Filed Over C & H Hog Farms Loans

06 Aug 2013 1:19 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
NWAOnline
Lawsuit filed over C&H Hog Farms loans
By Ryan McGeeney
Posted: August 6, 2013 at 1:41 p.m.
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A coalition of four environmental activism groups filed suit Tuesday in U.S. District Court against both the Farm Service Agency and the Small Business Administration for the issuance of loan guarantees for the construction of C&H Hog Farms, the large-scale concentrated animal feeding operation in Mount Judea.

The complaint, filed by Earthjustice in the Eastern District of Arkansas, Western Division, generally alleges the agencies did not conduct proper environmental assessments of the area surrounding the farm, which abuts Big Creek, a major tributary of the Buffalo National River.

The suit seeks several remedial actions, including a declaration from the court that the existing environmental assessment and its findings are unlawful, that about $3.3 million in loan guarantees to the farm owners be enjoined, and that new environmental assessments be conducted with the involvement of the National Park Service.

C&H Hog Farms, which is permitted to house about 2,500 full-grown sows and as many as 4,000 piglets at a time, is the first and only such facility in Arkansas to receive a general water discharge permit through the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. The owners of the farm have land use agreements that provide about 630 acres of grasslands upon which to spread the nitrogen- and phosphorous-rich manure produced by the hogs.

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