§ 20-3. Definitions
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 2. Agriculture
2 Okl.St.Ann. § 20-3
§ 20-3. Definitions
3. “Swine animal unit” means a unit of measurement for any swine feeding operation calculated by adding the following numbers: The number of swine weighing over twenty-five (25) kilograms, approximately fifty-five (55) pounds, multiplied by four-tenths (0.4), plus the number of weaned swine weighing under twenty-five (25) kilograms multiplied by one-tenth (0.1);
5. “Swine Waste Management Plan” or “Nutrient Management Plan” means a written plan that includes a combination of conservation and management practices designed to protect the natural resources of the state prepared by an owner or operator of a swine feeding operation as required by the Department pursuant to the provisions of Section 20-10 of this title;
8. “Best Management Practices” means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures and other management practices to prevent or reduce the pollution of waters of the state as established by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry pursuant to Section 20-10 of this title;
Provided, however, that no swine feeding operation pursuant to this subparagraph is a concentrated swine feeding operation if the swine feeding operation discharges only in the event of a twenty-five-year, twenty-four-hour storm event,
13. “Designated perimeter” means the perimeter of any structure or combination of structures utilized to control swine waste until it can be disposed of in an authorized manner. Structures shall include but not be limited to pits, burial sites, barns or roof-covered structures housing swine, composters, waste storage sites, or retention structures or appurtenances or additions thereto;
25. “Process wastewater” means any water utilized in the facility that comes into contact with any manure, litter, bedding, raw, intermediate, or final material or product used in or resulting from the production of swine and any products directly or indirectly used in the operation of a facility, such as spillage or overflow from swine watering systems; washing, cleaning, or flushing pens, barns, manure pits, direct contact, swimming, washing or spray cooling of swine; and dust control and any precipitation which comes into contact with swine or swine waste;
28. “Waste facility” means any structure or combination of structures utilized to control swine waste until it can be disposed of in an authorized manner. The structures shall include but not be limited to pits, burial sites, barns or roof-covered structures housing swine, composters, waste storage sites, or retention structures or appurtenances or additions thereto; and
29. “Waters of the state” means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, storm sewers and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon this state or any portion thereof, and shall include under all circumstances the waters of the United States which are contained within the boundaries of, flow through or border upon this state or any portion thereof. Provided, waste treatment systems, including treatment ponds and lagoons designed to meet federal and state requirements other than cooling ponds as defined in the Clean Water Act or rules promulgated pursuant thereto, are not waters of the state.
Credits
Laws 1969, c. 116, § 2; Laws 1973, c. 70, § 1, emerg. eff. April 27, 1973; Laws 1981, c. 77, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1981; Laws 1997, c. 331, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Laws 1998, c. 404, § 2, eff. August 1, 1998. Renumbered from Title 2, § 9-202 by Laws 2005, c. 292, § 25, eff. July 1, 2005. Laws 2006, c. 128, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2006; Laws 2007, c. 31, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2007; Laws 2013, c. 123, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2017, c. 90, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017.
2 Okl. St. Ann. § 20-3, OK ST T. 2 § 20-3
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 106 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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