US District Judge John Preston Bailey ruled in favor of a West Virginia chicken farmer who EPA had tried to force to obtain water pollution permits for runoff from her farm. The judge says manure and litter washed into Chesapeake Bay tributaries from Lois Alt's farm is agricultural runoff, not a fixed source of pollution like a factory, and thus exempt from the Federal Clean Water Act. Bailey's ruling hinged on Congress' lack of specific definition for "agricultural stormwater discharge" in the law, saying that the lack of definition means the term should be given "its ordinary meaning."