§ 20-41. Definitions
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 2. Agriculture
2 Okl.St.Ann. § 20-41
§ 20-41. Definitions
The term “animal feeding operation” shall not include a racetrack licensed by the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission to hold pari-mutuel race meetings pursuant to the Oklahoma Horse Racing Act1 if the facility discharges to a publicly owned treatment works, or an aquatic animal production facility;
3. “Animal unit” means a unit of measurement for any animal feeding operation calculated by adding the following numbers: The number of slaughter and feeder cattle multiplied by one (1), plus the number of mature dairy cattle multiplied by one and four-tenths (1.4), plus the number of sheep multiplied by one-tenth (0.1), plus the number of horses multiplied by two (2);
5. “Animal 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 an animal feeding operation as required by the Department pursuant to the provisions of Section 20-48 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 20-48 of this title;
Provided, no animal feeding operation pursuant to this subparagraph shall be construed to be a concentrated animal feeding operation if the animal feeding operation discharges only in the event of a twenty-five-year, twenty-four-hour storm event, or
Provided, however, that no animal feeding operation pursuant to this subparagraph is a concentrated animal feeding operation if the animal feeding operation discharges only in the event of a twenty-five-year, twenty-four-hour storm event, or
13. “Designated perimeter” means the perimeter of any structure or combination of structures utilized to control animal 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 animals, composters, waste storage sites, or retention structures or appurtenances or additions thereto;
21. “Pollution Prevention Plan” means a written plan to control the discharge of pollutants which has been prepared in accordance with industry-acceptable engineering and management practices by the owner or operator of an animal feeding operation as required pursuant to Section 20-47 of this title;
22. “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 animals and any products directly or indirectly used in the operation of a facility, such as spillage or overflow from animal watering systems; washing, cleaning, or flushing pens, barns, manure pits, direct contact, swimming, washing or spray cooling of animals; and dust control and any precipitation which comes into contact with animals or animal waste;
24. “Waste facility” means any structure or combination of structures utilized to control animal 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 animals, composters, waste storage sites, or retention structures or appurtenances or additions thereto; and
25. “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 2007, c. 31, § 29, eff. Nov. 1, 2007; Laws 2015, c. 126, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.
Footnotes
Title 3A, § 200 et seq.
2 Okl. St. Ann. § 20-41, OK ST T. 2 § 20-41
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 257 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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