AFFECTED PERSON: A person or legal entity owning property or residing within one and one-half (11/2) miles of an existing or proposed CAFO, or a resident or real property owner, both public and private, of the county who will be affected in his health, safety, or property rights by the CAFO. "Affected person" shall also include the county acting by and through the administrator, the commission or the board.
ANIMAL TYPES/EQUIVALENCY FACTOR:
Equivalency Factor
Dairy cattle | Milking and dry cows | 1.40 |
Heifers (2 years and older) | 1.00 | |
Heifers (1 to 2 years old) | 0.70 | |
Calves (3 months to 1 year) | 0.40 | |
Calves (under 3 months) | 0.25 | |
Beef cattle/bison | Bull (each) | 1.40 |
Steers/cows (over 800 pounds) | 1.00 | |
Calves (under 800 pounds) | 0.60 | |
Swine | Pigs (55 pounds to market) | 1.00 |
Pigs (up to 55 pounds) | 0.50 | |
Sows (each) | 1.00 | |
Boars (each) | 1.00 | |
Sheep (each) | 0.15 | |
Horses (each) | 1.00 | |
Fish (each 500 pounds) | 1.00 | |
Chickens (each) | 0.01 | |
Mink (each) | 0.50 | |
Species not specifically identified (each 350 pounds) | 1.00 | |
ANIMAL UNITS: To calculate the number of animal units, multiply the number of animals in the CAFO by the animal equivalency factor.
ANIMAL WASTE: Animal excrement, process wastewater, or other organic waste associated with the confinement of animals.
ANIMAL WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: Any structure or system that provides for the collection, treatment, storage or utilization of animal waste, which system is approved by the appropriate state agency.
APPLICANT: Any person or legal entity initiating an application for any action or provision authorized under this chapter.
CAFO (CONFINED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION):
A. Outside Priority Nitrate Area Of Concern:
1. A parcel or parcels of land, or the use of a parcel or parcels of land, for ninety (90) days or more in a twelve (12) month period, which land does not sustain cultivated crops, native forage growth, or postharvest residues in the normal growing season, upon which there are five hundred (500) or more animal units; or
2. Any facility with a milk shipping permit; or
3. Any facility with an animal waste management system approved by the appropriate state or federal agency having jurisdiction.
B. In A Priority Nitrate Area Of Concern: A parcel or parcels of land, or the use of a parcel or parcels of land, for ninety (90) days or more in a twelve (12) month period, which land does not sustain cultivated crops, native forage growth, or postharvest residues in the normal growing season, upon which there are fifty (50) or more animal units.
C. Land Application Sites: Land application sites are not considered to be part of the CAFO.
CAFO IMPROVEMENT: Improvements to the CAFO real property such as, but not limited to, buildings, barns, feed stalls, feeding yards, corrals, feed containment structures or areas, or the animal waste management system, and truck or motor vehicle parking areas. "CAFO improvements" do not include ditches or irrigation systems used to transport or apply liquid waste.
CAFO SITE ADVISORY TEAM: Team authorized by Idaho Code sections 67-6529C and 67-6529G consisting of representatives from the Idaho state department of agriculture, Idaho department of environmental quality, and Idaho department of water resources that, upon request by the board of county commissioners, reviews a site and provides information regarding a proposed CAFO and submits a site suitability determination for the CAFO to the county.
EXISTING CAFO FACILITY: A CAFO facility of which the planning and zoning commission has accepted the registration notice and has recorded it with the county recorder.
IDAPA: Idaho administrative procedures act.
IDEQ: Idaho department of environmental quality.
ISDA: Idaho state department of agriculture.
NRCS: Natural resources conservation service of the United States department of agriculture.
NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT PLAN: A plan prepared in compliance with federal or state regulations, whichever is more restrictive, and approved by the responsible state or federal agency for managing the amount, source, placement, form and timing of the application of nutrients and soil amendments on land owned or controlled by the registrant or permit holder.
NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT STANDARD: The USDA/NRCS code 590, or the Idaho agriculture pollution abatement plan-nutrient management standard component practice.
ONE TIME ANIMAL UNIT CAPACITY: The maximum number of animal units allowed or to be allowed at the CAFO at any specific moment in time.
PRIORITY NITRATE AREA OF CONCERN: An area of a nitrate contaminated aquifer, as determined by the DEQ, which is illustrated on that map on file in the office of the Washington County planning and zoning administrator.
PROCESS WASTEWATER: Any water generated on a CAFO that comes into contact with manure, compost, bedding, feed, or runoff.
REGISTRANT: Owner or operator of a CAFO in existence at the effective date hereof, who registers with the office of the administrator and provides the information required under this chapter.
REGISTRATION NOTICE: The document containing the required information that an existing CAFO shall file with the administrator in order to register the CAFO.
USGS: United States geological survey. (Ord. 56, 3-14-2005)