A Washington D.C. Circuit Court decision will stay a mandate on farm emissions reporting required under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act. National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President Craig Uden says the stay has been ordered until January 22 and is welcomed by livestock producers.

He says the CERCLA and EPCRA rules for reporting were never well defined and federal agencies were struggling to implement it.

Uden says NCBA worked with other agricultural groups to ask for the delay and reconsideration of the rules.

CERCLA was enacted in 1980 in response to industrial pollution, while EPCRA was first implemented in 1986 to help deal with chemical spills.