Further, there is no science that they know of currently to justify why horses have been treated as two animal units historically in relation to water quality issues. He encourages us to respond to the Proposed Regulations with scientific information that could help them reclassify the horse as 1 Animal Unit for the purposes of Water Quality Compliance. He says that this is a process during which they hope that new information will come forward to assist them in arriving at the best regulation possible. Anything that we can provide them would be greatly appreciated. Generally speaking, the Green Groups favor EPA adopting the Two-tiered Structure.
Most normal folks favor the Three-tiered Structure.
According Dr. Deanne Morris-Meyers of UC Davis, it is difficult to do equine studies because 50 horses or more are desirable at a facility to make it worth pursuing. We don't want them to be burdened by unnecessary compliance with regulation founded on wrong principles. We believe that treating a 1000 pound horse as 2AU is not supported by datan or science. We need people to attend the EPA meeting in each region to seed the minds of presenters that the classification of the horse as 2 AUs is both unfounded in the science and inaccurate based on item 2 above. I am gone from May 11th on, so we really should be targeting a document response by May 1.