CLEAN WATER ACT (CWA)-RELATED WORK
Formica represents hog farmers fromacross the country before federal and state regulatory agencies, focusing on CWA issues, and also handles water-quality issues for the broader agriculture sector. For general U.S. business sectors and the agriculture sector, he was a primary author for comments and negotiation with the EPA over the Clean Water Rule and is involved in related litigation. He also has been involved with the EPA’s Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation rule under the CWA and with litigation connected to the Chesapeake Bay.
Formica is working with the EPA in
the Nutrient Recycling Challenge, an
initiative to develop technologies that
recycle nutrients from livestock waste
to help reduce water pollution and
create marketable products.
TRENDS AND BIG ISSUES
“The biggest issue the country
will face is its aging infrastructure
and associated problems, both in
providing clean drinking water … and
in protecting water quality generally
as older urban areas continue to shed
populations, yet still need to invest
tens of billions of dollars to repair and
replace 100-plus-year-old sewage and
stormwater systems.
“We are now leading to a new
phase, where attention is focusing on
nontraditional sources of pollution
that come not from point sources but
from lawns, golf courses, forests
streets, farms, etc., all of which are
exacerbated by limits on new growth
and development in urban areas and
fights between urban and rural areas
over water-quality challenges,”
Formica says.