{"id":7703,"date":"2016-09-30T13:57:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T17:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gcdev3.com\/mwra\/moly-limits-changed\/"},"modified":"2016-09-30T13:57:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T17:57:05","slug":"moly-limits-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/moly-limits-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"MassDEP Officially Changes Molybdenum Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;14&#8243; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"animation alignleft wp-image-5828\" src=\"http:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Bay-State-Fertilizer.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Bay State Fertilizer Bag\" width=\"191\" height=\"250\" \/>An initiative the Advisory Board has been working on for the last few years has finally come to fruition!\u00a0In May\u00a02014, the Advisory Board recommended that the MWRA take any and all actions needed to raise the MassDEP limits on the amount of molybdenum\u00a0allowed in sludge pellets\u00a0for land use application. Our key argument was bolstered by the old adage &#8220;a picture is worth a thousand words,&#8221; in which we\u00a0demonstrated how MassDEP&#8217;s limits were far below EPA&#8217;s current national limits as well as those set by New York state and\u00a0based upon scientific research\u00a0conducted at\u00a0Cornell University.<\/p>\n<p>Out of that recommendation came conversations and meetings with other stakeholders to better understand the existing limits and impacts of raising limits in the Commonwealth. The Advisory Board, MWRA, North East Biosolids &amp; Residuals Association (NEBRA)\u00a0and other interested parties participated in the MassDEP\u00a0public process to amend the regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Advisory Board is pleased to announce that the hard work and dedication of\u00a0the many stakeholders and supporters of this\u00a0initiative has paid off! The MassDEP regulations have officially been changed to match the New York limits at 40 mg\/kg for land use application.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This will give the MWRA the ability to sell its pellets in-state all throughout the year. The previous limits forced several months worth of pellets to be shipped out of state each year, and made it\u00a0an impractical source of fertilizer for local Massachusetts farms. This change in regulations is a win-win-win by being good:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>For the environment<\/strong>: it will reduce the carbon emissions of pellets being shipped out of state<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>For the\u00a0economy<\/strong>:\u00a0it will allow local farms\u00a0to use a local and cheaper alternative for fertilizer pellets<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Government:\u00a0<\/strong>by basing regulations on good science, which balances\u00a0the impacts on the pellet\u00a0industry with the need to protect livestock.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Great thanks to the MWRA, NEBRA, MassDEP, and all others who helped secure this change\u00a0to MassDEP regulations.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advisory Board initiative to increase molybdenum limits successful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}