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Oklahoma Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 11, 2021) |
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TITLE 35. Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry |
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Chapter 17. Water Quality |
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Subchapter 4. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations |
SECTION 35:17-4-2. Definitions
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- In addition to terms defined in the Oklahoma Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Act, the following words or terms, when used in this Subchapter, shall have the following meaning unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:"Act" means the Oklahoma Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Act beginning at Section 20-40 of Title 2 of the Oklahoma Statutes."ALJ" means Administrative Law Judge."APA" means the Oklahoma Administrative Procedures Act, beginning at Section 301 of Title 75 of the Oklahoma Statutes."Application" means a set of documents filed with the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry for the purpose of obtaining an Oklahoma CAFO License from the State Board of Agriculture."ASTM" means the most current version of the American Society of Testing Materials standards."CAFO" means Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation as defined in Section 20-41 of Title 2 of the Oklahoma Statutes."Discharge" means any release by leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, dumping, escaping, seeping, leaching, or other means of release of wastes or wastewater except as otherwise provided in Section 20-44 of Title 2 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The term discharge shall not include a distribution of waste water into an irrigation system for the purpose of land application of waste to property, provided the waste does not leave the land application area."Hearing" means an individual proceeding conducted pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Administrative Procedures Act."Licensing process" means the procedures where permission to engage in certain activities pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Act is granted by the Board. Procedures include but are not limited to application, notice to affected property owners, Department review, publication of notice of application, hearings, and issuance of a building permit and license."Party" means a person or agency named and participating or properly seeking and entitled by these rules to participate in hearings."Person" means any individual, association, partnership, firm, company, public trust, corporation, joint-stock company, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, trust, estate, state or federal government agency, municipality, other governmental entity, or any other legal entity or their agent, employee, representative, assignee, or successor."USDA NRCS" means the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service."25-year, 24-hour rainfall event" means the maximum twenty-four (24) hour precipitation event with a probable recurrence interval of once in twenty-five (25) years, as defined by the National Weather Service in Technical Paper Number 40, "Rainfall Frequency Atlas of the United States," May 1961, and subsequent amendments, or equivalent regional or state rainfall probability information.