Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 167 - Pollution Control Agency
Chapter 7020 - ANIMAL FEEDLOTS
STANDARDS FOR DISCHARGE, DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION, AND CLOSURE
Part 7020.2003 - WATER QUALITY DISCHARGE STANDARDS
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 39, March 25, 2024
Subpart 1. Subsurface discharges from animal feedlots and manure storage areas.
No person shall discharge animal manure, manure-contaminated runoff, or process wastewater from any animal feedlot, including a CAFO, or manure storage area into a sinkhole, fractured bedrock, well, surface tile intake, mine, quarry, or other natural or constructed channels that convey fluids to groundwater.
Subp. 2. Surface water discharges from CAFOs and animal feedlots with 1,000 animal units or more.
No person shall discharge animal manure, manure-contaminated runoff, or process wastewater from a CAFO or an animal feedlot with 1,000 animal units or more to waters of the United States or to surface waters of the state except as provided in this part.
Subp. 3. Other facilities.
An owner of an animal feedlot or a manure storage area shall comply with the effluent limitations in part 7053.0305 unless the animal feedlot or the manure storage area is subject to the effluent limitation requirements in subpart 2 or subject to an effluent limitation established in a permit issued under this chapter.
Subp. 4. [Repealed, 38 SR 1535]
Subp. 5. [Repealed, 38 SR 1535]
Subp. 6. [Repealed, 38 SR 1535]
Statutory Authority: MS s 115.03; 116.07; 122.23