On behalf of members of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation, I ask that regulations not be promulgated for growers that raise tomatoes utilizing plasticulture methods. 

Concerns expressed to date have focused on sediment and only three operations.  This is easily addressed by establishing or continuing a working relationship with the local Soil and Water Conservation District or by the Agriculture Stewardship Program in the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.  Both offer the needed individual attention to the issue rather than blanket regulation that will effect not only operations in question but also innocent growers state wide.