Current through Rules and Regulations filed through September 23, 2024
(1) The registrant, the registrant's product
control contractor, and the landowner, as applicable, must ensure a nutrient
management plan is procured for each site where an IBD soil amendment will be
applied, and must ensure the nutrient management plan is amended as required.
(a) No registrant or product control
contractor may apply an IBD soil amendment to a site until forty-eight hours
after a nutrient management plan is obtained for the site.
(b) The registrant, the registrant's product
control contractor, and the landowner, as applicable, must each ensure the
nutrient management plan for a site is submitted to the Commissioner prior to
application at that site.
(c)
Registrants, product control contractors, and landowners distributing,
transporting, storing, or applying IBD soil amendments registered prior to the
adoption of this Subject must achieve compliance with this Subject within
ninety days of its effective date.
(2) An NMP prepared pursuant to this Subject
must be amended within sixty days to reflect changes in crops grown at the
site, IBD soil amendments applied, soil amendment application methods,
application site locations, or material site conditions.
(a) In addition to amendments required to
reflect changes at an application site, an annual farm assessment must be
completed for any site continuing to receive IBD soil amendments beyond the
calendar year in which the initial NMP was prepared. This reassessment must
include, at minimum, new analyses of soil and soil amendments as described in
Ga. Comp. R. and Regs. r.
40-31-3-.04 and
40-31-3-.05.
(3) Registrants, product control contractors,
and landowners, as applicable, shall be exempt from compliance with this
Subject for sites receiving, storing, or applying only IBD soil amendments:
(a) Constituting biosolids treated to Class A
or exceptional quality sludge standards in accordance with a sludge management
plan approved under a permit issued by EPD;
(b) Constituting compost produced by a Class
I, II, or III composting or anaerobic digester facility in accordance with
rules enforced by or a permit issued by EPD; or
(c) Constituting forest products or soil
amendments derived from industrial by-products generated solely from forest
products, excluding chemical by-products of pulp digestion, slates, clays,
shells, gypsum, and lime.
O.C.G.A. §
2-12-80.
