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by Therese Dunphy DECEMBER 2011 VOL. 16, NO. 12 EDITORIAL Therese Dunphy, (Silver Lake, OH) • Editor-in-Chief Tel: 330-920-9737, E-mail: therese@aggman.com Marcia Gruver Doyle • Editorial Director E-mail: mgruver@randallreilly.com Kerry Clines, (Dallas, TX) • Senior Editor Tel: 214-324-0596, E-mail: kerry@aggman.com Tina Grady Barbaccia, (Des Plaines, IL) News and Digital Editor Tel: 630-364-2306, E-mail: tina@aggman.com DESIGN Sandy Turner, Jr. • Art Director Tel: 205-248-1122, E-mail: sturner@randallreilly.com PRODUCTION Linda Hapner, (Des Plaines, IL) • Production Manager Tel: 847-636-5067, E-mail: lhapner@randallreilly.com Mary Springer • Senior Production Director E-mail: mspringer@randallreilly.com Leah Boyd • Production Director E-mail: lboyd@randallreilly.com Diane Klischer • Production Director E-mail: dklischer@randallreilly.com PUBLISHING/ADMINISTRATIVE Mike Porcaro, Executive Publisher Joe Donald, Executive Publisher Paige Thompson Fair, Controller Stacy A. Stiglic, Circulation Director Ginger Love, Research Director Dan Tidwell, Senior VP/Construction Division ADVERTISING SALES See listings on page 51 DES PLAINES, IL OFFICE Aggregates Manager 2340 S. River Rd., Suite 202 • Des Plaines, IL 60018 Phone: 847-636-5060, Fax: 847-636-5077 For all subscription inquiries please call: 800-517-4979 Or on line: www.submag.com/sub/af POSTMASTER Please send all address corrections to: Aggregates Manager P.O. Box 2060 • Skokie, IL 60076 REGULATORY A Common Sense by Kerry L. Clines, Senior Editor ll too often, it seems like common sense is not nearly common enough. This is particularly true when new regulations are promulgated that create increasingly impossible standards for businesses struggling under the weight of a sluggish economy. Surprisingly, this is not a commentary about such legislation. Instead, H.R. 1633, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, is a rare, pragmatic bill. Introduced by Reps. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) and Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa), it protects ag- gregate producers, farmers, and other rural businesses from the uncertainty surrounding current and future regulation of rural dust. "H.R. 1633 achieves two important goals: regulatory certainty in the short term and common sense for rural America in the long term. The bill maintains the current coarse particulate matter standard for one year — a position Lisa Jackson has embraced with her plans to propose maintaining the standard — and it offers regulatory relief to rural Amer- ica by recognizing that states and local communities are better equipped to monitor and control farm dust," House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said in a press release. "EPA would no longer be in the business of regulating rural dust, except in cases where it is not already being regulated and the benefits of EPA regulation outweigh the costs." PM10 standard without revision, H.R. 1633 provides additional protection against further regulatory burden. And, it's not surprising that many want that protection. More than 185 While EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has said she is prepared to retain the current organizations have opposed changes in the dust regulations, and House Minority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) named a more stringent dust standard as one of the administration's top 10 job-destroying regulations. In late October, Pete Lien, president of Pete Lien and Sons, Inc., testified on behalf of the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association and cautioned committee members about the costs needed to comply with further regulation. "Federal regulatory decision-makers must wield their authority with care, and should base regulatory decisions on published, peer-reviewed assessments of risk," he said. "We are wary of rules that create more strin- gent or even unattainable standards without sufficient statistical, scientific, or analytical justification." I applaud the House for listening to Lien and advancing a bill that epitomizes what Upton called "government that works." Now, let's hope that the Senate has the common sense to pass it, and the President has the wisdom to sign it. 3200 Rice Mine Road N.E. • Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 800-633-5953 • www.rrpub.com Mike Reilly, Chairman, President / CEO David Wright, COO / Vice President Shane Elmore, CFO / Treasurer Brent Reilly, Executive Vice President Linda Longton, Senior VP/Editorial and Research Jim Davis, Vice President Interactive Media 1 2 3 3 A certification creates an incentive for operators to use sustainable prac- tices, page 25. Hydraulic leaks aren't as benign as many think, page 38. things I learned from this issue: To avoid citation, equip- ment must not only be maintained, but preserved from decline, page 46. AGGREGATES MANAGER January 2012 3