Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 35 - Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry
Chapter 45 - Water Quality Standards Implementation Plan
Subchapter 1 - Water Quality Standards Implementation Plan
Section 35:45-1-5 - Specific jurisdictional areas of environmental responsibility
Universal Citation: OK Admin Code 35:45-1-5
Current through Vol. 41, No. 13, March 15, 2024
(a) Title 27A of the Oklahoma Statutes outlines environmental responsibilities of the various environmental agencies. According to 27A O.S. § 1-3-101(D), ODAFF has environmental responsibility for the following jurisdictional areas:
(1) point source discharges and nonpoint
source runoff from agricultural crop production, agricultural services,
livestock production, silviculture, feed yards, livestock markets, and animal
waste;
(2) pesticide
control;
(3) forestry and
nurseries;
(4)
fertilizer;
(5) facilities which
store grain, feed, seed, fertilizer and agricultural chemicals;
(6) dairy waste and wastewater associated
with milk production facilities;
(7) groundwater protection for activities
subject to the jurisdictional areas of environmental responsibility;
(8) utilization and enforcement of Oklahoma
Water Quality Standards and implementation documents;
(9) development and promulgation of a Water
Quality Standards Implementation Plan pursuant to Section 1-1-202 of Title 27A
in the Oklahoma Statutes for its jurisdictional areas of environmental
responsibility ; and
(10) storm
water discharges for activities subject to the jurisdictional areas of
environmental responsibility.
(b) The following areas are specifically reserved to the jurisdiction of ODEQ at 27A O.S. § 1-3-101(D)(2):
(1) commercial manufacturers of fertilizers,
grain and feed products, and chemicals, and over manufacturing of food and
kindred products, tobacco, paper, lumber, wood, textile mill and other
agricultural products;
(2)
slaughterhouses, but not including feedlots at such facilities;
(3) aquaculture and fish hatcheries,
including but not limited to, discharges of pollutants and storm water to
waters of the state, surface impoundments and land application of wastes and
sludge, and other pollution originating at these facilities; and
(4) facilities which store grain, feed, seed,
fertilizer, and agricultural chemicals that are required by federal NPDES
regulations to obtain a permit for storm water discharges shall only be subject
to the jurisdiction of ODEQ with respect to such storm water
discharges.
(c) The following is a list of programs as addressed in the WQSIP within the jurisdictional areas of environmental responsibility of ODAFF, as defined in 27 A O.S. Section 1-3-101(D).
(1) Point source
discharges and nonpoint source runoff from livestock production, feed yards,
livestock markets and animal waste; dairy waste and wastewater associated with
milk production facilities.
(A) Animal waste
programs.
(B) WQSIP
required.
(2) Pesticide
Control; point source discharges and nonpoint source runoff from agricultural
crop production and agricultural services.
(A)
Pesticide program.
(B) WQSIP
required.
(3) Forestry
and nurseries; point source discharges and nonpoint source runoff from
silviculture.
(A) Forestry Best Management
Practices Program.
(B) WQSIP
required.
(4)
Fertilizer; point source discharges and nonpoint source runoff from
agricultural crop production and agricultural services.
(A) Fertilizer program.
(B) WQSIP required.
(5) Groundwater protection for activities
subject to the jurisdictional areas of environmental responsibility of ODAFF.
(A) Groundwater protection
activities.
(B) Separate WQSIP not
required because requirements for groundwater quality protection and corrective
measures, if necessary, are included in each of the individual
programs.
(6)
Utilization and enforcement of Oklahoma Water Quality Standards and
Implementation Plan pursuant to Section 1-1-202 of Title 27A OS for
jurisdictional areas of environmental responsibility.
(A) Water quality standards
implementation.
(B) WQSIP not
required.
(7)
Development and promulgation of a WQSIP pursuant to Section 1-1-202 of Title
27A OS for its jurisdictional areas of environmental responsibility.
(A) Water quality standards
implementation.
(B) WQSIP not
required.
Added at 18 Ok Reg 3409, eff 6-28-01 (emergency); Added at 19 Ok Reg 951, eff 5-13-02; Amended at 22 Ok Reg 2332, eff 7-11-05
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