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Oil Spill Prevention
Turning Body Art Into Business
The USDA’s Spill, Prevention, Control and Countermeasure initiative was designed to help agricultural producers in Idaho comply with revised Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations for on-farm oil spills. The Natural Resources Conservation Service is accepting applications for the initiative through May 4, 2012. EPA’s revised Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) regulations require agricultural operations to have an oil spill prevention plan in place. The USDA set up a pilot initiative for eight states, including Idaho, to help producers comply with the EPA’s SPCC regulations. “An important part of the USDA mission is helping farmers and ranchers develop plans to protect human health and the environment, including assistance to comply with new regulations,” said Jeff Burwell, Idaho NRCS State Conservationist. “This initiative will help agricultural producers meet regulatory requirements designed to reduce the dangers of on-farm oil spills.” For farms with aboveground storage capacity of more than 10,000 gallons of oil or oil products, the EPA requires that the SPCC plans be developed by a professional engineer. The NRCS initiative
If you are going to start a business, especially in this economy, make sure it is something you love. Not only does this make work more enjoyable, it comes across to your customers and gets them excited about your product. This is certainly true about a new business in Shoshone Inkorporated Tattoo. Located on the north side of the railroad tracks in Shoshone, just a block west of Highway 75, Inkorporated Tattoo is a partnership between Josh Hettenbach and Chris Silvia. Josh Hettenbach, a graduate of Richfield High School, has seven years of tattooing experience. While learning the trade, he also worked on several residential construction projects in our area. Chris Silvia is a graduate of the Seattle Art Institute and has been doing tattoos for 18 years. He has also applied his art training to CNC machining by working for Sun Valley Bronze, and recently for himself by producing unique personal items out of brass. While tattoos are not to everyone’s liking, they are becoming more and more popular. What used to be the mark of military or disreputable men, and a sure-fire way of not getting a job, is now a chic and upscale status symbol worn by men and women alike. Tattoos can be small simple designs, easily hidden by clothing, or large elaborate full color images that rival works of art in a museum. A small tattoo might take less than an hour to complete and only cost thirty or forty dollars. A large tattoo might take several months to complete and cost thousands of dollars. A common misconception about tattooing is that ink is used. While the material used is called ink, tattoo designs are actually made with safe, nontoxic pigments. Older pigments often fade over time, but the newer pigments are capable of lasting for your entire life with full color brightness. As was said before, tattoos are not for everyone and if you plan to get one, make sure it is something you can live with for the rest of your life (they can be removed, but you won’t like it - the pain or the money involved). The owners of Inkorporated Tattoo can provide commonly used designs or oneof-a-kind masterworks. Be sure to stop by their shop to buy a ticket for their Tattoo Lottery.
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