<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3773"><span></span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3774"> </div><div id="story_header" class="" style="margin: 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; float: left; width: 940px; position: relative; min-height: 250px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.6000003814697px;"><header style="display: table; margin: 0px 10px 39px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 620px; float: left;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3872"><h1 class="" style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 30px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; height: 123px; overflow: visible; display: table-row;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3900"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: middle; display: table-cell;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3899">Idaho dairies no longer face losing permit <br><br>under new rule</span></h1><div class="" style="padding-bottom: 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3961">BY KIMBERLEE KRUESI</div><div class="" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3960"><span class="" style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Associated Press</span><span class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase;">BOISE, IDAHO</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3962">— Idaho's $2.4 billion dairy industry is no longer at risk of losing its operating permits if caught illegally dumping waste into streams and waterways.</span></div></header></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.6000003814697px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3896"><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3898"><div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3897">The Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee approved new rules Tuesday that would no longer allow the Idaho State Department of Agriculture to revoke a dairy facility's permit if caught illegally discharging wastewater or sewage. Instead, dairies would face a fine up to $10,000.</div><div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important;" class="">The rules are in compliance of a law that Idaho Republican lawmakers passed in 2014.</div><div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3949">The committee's two Democrats opposed the rule, saying that department officials should have allowed feedback from the public while creating the rules.</div><div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important;" class="">The department says public comment wasn't needed because the rules mimic the law.</div><div class="" id="ndn-video-player-1" data-config-distributor-id="91088" style="margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important;"></div></div><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px; height: 1px; font-stretch: normal; overflow: hidden;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3786" class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3786"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423065743601_3774" class="" style=""> </div></div></body></html>