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Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, the Iowa chapter of the Sierra Club, and the Environmental Integrity Project filed a new legal petition urging that the U.S. EPA strip the Iowa Department of Natural Resources of its authority to issue factory farm operating permits due to the state agencys lax oversight in the face of widespread concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) violations of the federal Clean Water Act. Despite repeated attempts by EPA and citizen groups to spur IDNR to action, IDNR has resisted making any meaningful progress to bring the growing number of Iowa factory farms into compliance with the federal Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act allows citizens to petition EPA to withdraw the power of a state to issue Clean Water Act permits.

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