Pit & Quarry, June 2017
GOVERNMENT that goes into it from the design to the actual operation and implementation of them that can add a lot of costs to those operations SMET In regard to two regulations for one I agree thats not as simple as it sounds from a legislative or political perspective Its almost impossible to actually implement that My expectation is that theyll just defund the agencies and make them less effective in doing their jobs right So less police on the street so it starts watering down the actual compliance Im wondering what the large producers in the room think about that If MSHA is defunded who will it go after Will it go after the big guys and try to nail them down with violations and big fines WEECH Regulations can be a benefit and can be a curse The challenge to us as producers is dealing with the inconsistent enforcement of the regulations Regulations in and of themselves in most cases are not necessarily bad as long as theyre consistent and adopted by all parties because then its an equal playing field and we can compete TOPAZ ROOM TRUSSELL There are a multitude of rules that are currently in different phases of approval that we have great concern over not the least of which is the Waters of the U S WOTUS rule obviously and some of the air quality rules that were facing The ozone is going to be a huge obstacle for us The new standards have been lowered such that it would be very difficult at best for a new business to come in and operate in our non attainment areas There are a lot of things we cannot control as it pertains to precursor emissions to ozone So there has to be a rollback But the question is how is that going to take place One of the things we deal with are major grabs of federal land And while thats not necessarily a rule obviously Trussell were concerned with parting gifts from the last administration In the case of the Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument were talking 17 million acres that have multiple uses Those are the kinds of things we were concerned with How do we reverse that Experience Knowledge Service Smet Rockability Weve got it Rock Solid Solutions Built on Experience Since 1977 Proud Distributor of Aggregate Material Handling Systems 323 Energy Way Bridgeport TX www crispindustries com 8003150871 50 PIT QUARRY June 2017 pitandquarry com
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