Where I live here in 'upstate' NY (upstate is a term used by NYC residents to define any part of NY outside of the Five Boroughs that is not called Long Island or Westchester) it is farm country. More specifically, it is dairy farm country. A dairy farmer makes his money for the most part from selling milk. The milk comes from cows (not the Rosie O'Donnel type, the bovine type.) As such, the profits, if any, are more or less directly proportional to the number of cows that you can slap your milking machine on.
This has always been a dairy farm region going back to the Dutch. Cows have been in the pasture for centuries here. When cows are in the barn, you eventually need to devise a means to remove quantities of odoriferous solid matter and load it into your Obama Promise Redistributor and fertilize your fields. (see picture for example..)
In your barnlike habitat you can devise methods of containment so that liquid portions of cow effluent do not run into the little creek that (in this area) more than likely meanders through your property. Since Bossy is not into visiting the conveniently located portapotty while out in the pasture, when Bossy has the urge, Bossy goes. Right there. On the ground. In the open.
OK.. So much for background. Now about the EPA..
A couple of weeks ago an article appeared in the local news that the EPA (the 'we're from the government, we're here to help you' people) wandered randomly through the area checking 'water quality' in some of those meandering-through-the-pasture streams of non-potable water. They have informed a local farmer that the runoff from his pasture had one or two more e coli per gallon (or whatever their measurement standard was) in it than their 'standards' allow. Because of this heinous crime committed by his cows defecating in the open pasture, he either must decrease the size of his herd (by something like 70%) or build retaining walls bordering the meandering-through-the-pasture stream to prevent the stuff from entering the non-potable creek and rendering the non-potable water non-potable...
I thoroughly expect them to randomly appear shortly after one of the farmers empties his barn of obamapromises and uses his Obama Promise Redistributor to fertilize the fields (which also, more likely than not, have one of those meandering-through-the-field streams) and then issue regulations governing bullsh*t spreading...
...and exempt themselves from the regulation.