Fact Sheet

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Fact Sheet 10CAFO Requirements for the
Production Area

• By Peter Wright , Cornell University, and Brent
  Auvermann, Texas AM University

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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES)

• Addressed design/operating criteria with
  industry-specific water quality protection rules
• Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELG)
• New Source Performance Standards (NSPS)
• Defined which operations constitute point
  sources

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Production Area

• Animal confinement areas (open lots, feedlots,
  cow yards, medication pens)
• Manure storage areas (lagoons, retention ponds,
  stock-piles, compost piles)
• Raw materials storage areas (feed silos, silage
  bunkers, bedding materials)

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Production Area (cont'd)

• Waste containment areas (settling basins and
  areas with berms or diversions)
• Mortality management areaany area used in
  storage, handling, treatment, or disposal of
  mortalities

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Requirements for Swine, Poultry, and Veal
Operations

• Applies to AFOs with one-time capacity (hd) of
• Swine 2,500 or 10,000 (depending on weight)
• Turkeys 55,000
• Chickens 30,000 82,000 or 125,000
• Veal calves 1,000
• Dairy cows 700
• Other cattle 1,000

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No Discharge from Production Area

• Exceptions to no-discharge policy
• 25-year, 24-hour rainfall event (beef and dairy
  existing swine, veal, and poultry)
• 100-year, 24-hour rainfall event (new swine,
  veal, and poultry)
• Exceptions require compliance with all other
  provisions of the rule.

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Best Management Practices

• Keeping the water clean
• Maintain waterers prevent overflow, prevent,
  and repair leaks
• Maintain vegetated filter strips prevent
  submersion in water and soil saturation
• Control roof water use protected gutters
• Maintain diversions, berms, or land grading to
  prevent surface runoff.

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Inspection Requirements

• Weekly inspections of storm water diversion
  devices, runoff collection structures, waste
  storage structures, and manure or runoff
  transporting systems.
• Daily inspections of waterlines
• Installation of depth markers in storage areas
• Keep records of deficiencies or discharges, and
  address deficiencies as soon as possible.

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Record-Keeping Requirements

• Maintain a complete copy of
• Design
• Inspection
• Problem correction
• Mortality disposal
• All records must be kept for 5 years.

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Compliance Checklist

• A checklist is available to help you determine if
  you are in compliance with the new federal CAFO
  regulations.

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Time Line for Compliance

• Some provisions took effect upon adoption of the
  rule on April 14, 2003 others will not take
  effect until 2006.
• For more details on compliance deadlines
• See Fact Sheet 3.
• Contact your state permitting authority for the
  most up-to-date CAFO permitting information.

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Acronyms

• AFOAnimal Feeding Operation
• AUAnimal unit
• BMPBest Management Practice
• CAFOConcentrated Animal Feeding Operation

• CWAClean Water Act
• ELGEffluent Limitations Guidelines
• NPDESNational Pollutant Discharge Elimination
  System
• NSPSNew Source Performance Standards

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Authors
Peter Wright, Livestock Waste Management
Specialist, Cornell University, can be reached
at pew2_at_cornell.edu. Brent Auvermann, Associate
Professor, Texas AM University, can be
reachedat b-auvermann_at_tamu.edu.
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For More Information
Environmental Regulations Related ResourcesEPA
CAFO Phone Line202-564-0766 http//www.epa.gov/np
des/caforule/To obtain copy of
regulations http//www.epa.gov/npdes/afo/statecont
acts/To obtain state environmental agency
contacts http//www.epa.gov/agriculture/animals.ht
ml/To obtain compliance assistance information
from EPA http//cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/contacts.cfm?p
rogram_id7typeREGION/To obtain EPA Region
Animal Feeding Operation contacts
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For More Information (cont'd)

• Land-Grant University Resources
• The local contact for your land-grant university
  Cooperative Extension program is listed in the
  phone book under "Cooperative Extension" or
  "(county name) County Cooperative Extension."
• http//www.reeusda.gov/1700/statepartners/usa.htm/
  To obtain state Cooperative Extension contacts
• http//www.lpes/To view the Livestock and
  Poultry Environ-mental Stewardship (LPES)
  curriculum resources

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For More Information (cont'd)

• USDA Farm Bill Resources
• To obtain more information about the Farm Bill
  2002, see the USDA-NRCS website at the following
  URL http//www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/farmbill/20
  02/.
• You can also contact your local USDA Service
  Center, listed in the phone book under "U.S.
  Department of Agriculture," or your local
  conservation district.

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Funding

• This material is based upon work supported by
  the Cooperative State Research, Education, and
  Extension Service, U.S. Department of
  Agriculture the U.S. Environmental Protection
  Agency, the National Agriculture Assistance
  Center and the University of Nebraska
  Cooperative Extension, University of
  Nebraska-Lincoln, under Cooperative Agreement
  Number 97-EXCA-3-0642.