Can the operation afford the “penalty fee” and study funding apportionments?
Under the agreement, any operation consisting of only one farm that is below the threshold for a “large” Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) under the Clean Water Act, would pay the $200 penalty. Operations with multiple farms pay $500 or $1,000 per farm, depending on the size. Operations with more than 200 farms will pay the $100,000 maximum penalty fee.
