Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) Animal waste control
facilities which reduce the existing pollution of water, land, or air by animal
wastes may be applied to areas on farmland where animal wastes from the farm
constitute a significant pollution hazard. This practice is designed to provide
facilities for storage and handling of livestock and poultry waste and the control
of surface runoff water to permit the recycling of animal waste onto the land in
such a manner as to abate pollution which would otherwise result from livestock or
poultry operations.
(b) The following
types of practices are approved for animal waste control facilities:
1. For animal waste storage facilities such as
aerobic or anaerobic lagoons, liquid manure tanks, holding ponds, collection basins,
settling basins, composing facilities and similar facilities as well as diversions,
channels, waterways, outlet structures, piping, land shaping, and similar measures
needed as part of a system on the farm to manage animal waste.
2. Permanently installed equipment needed as an
integral part of the system; for fencing and vegetative cover (including mulching
needed to protect the facility); and for leveling and filling to permit the
installation of an effective system.
(c) The following special conditions are
applicable to animal waste control facilities:
1.
Cost-sharing is limited to solving the pollution problems where the livestock or
poultry operation is part of a total farming operation, and shall be limited to the
most cost-effective facilities.
2.
Cost-sharing is authorized only if the storage and diversion facilities will
contribute significantly to maintaining or improving the soil or water
quality.
3. Cost-sharing is not
authorized for the following:
i. Measures primarily
for the prevention or abatement of air pollution unless the measures also have soil
and water conserving benefits;
ii.
Portable pumps, pumping equipment or other portable equipment, buildings or
modifications of buildings or for spreading animal wastes on the land;
iii. For that portion of animal waste structures
installed under or attached to buildings which serve as part of the building or its
foundation;
iv. For animal waste
facilities that do not meet local or State regulations.
(d) The system shall be maintained for
a minimum of eight years following calendar year of installation.
