<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 14-122. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
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               <span class="ital">Animal waste</span> means livestock or poultry excreta or a mixture of excreta with feed, bedding, litter
               or other materials.
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               <span class="ital">Approved animal waste management plan</span> [WMP] means a plan to properly collect, store, treat and/or apply animal waste to
               the land in an environmentally safe manner. The best management practice or system
               of practices which comprise the plan must meet the design, construction, operating
               and maintenance standards and technical specifications of the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Soil
               Conservation Service in section IV of the Field Office Technical Guide, or any combination
               which the county health department deems to provide water quality protection.
               
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                  (1)
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                  Effective July 25, 1994, an approved plan must also meet the additional applicable
                  specifications and requirements contained in these rules.
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                  (2)
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                  Plans are considered approved when they are:
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                  a.
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                  Certified by the soil conservation service that the criteria for design and construction
                  are met and that the operation and maintenance criteria can be met; and
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                  b.
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                  The Halifax County Health Department certifies that additional requirements contained
                  herein are met.
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               The landowner or leasee must submit SCS certification to the county health department
               on forms supplied by the health department. A new certification must be submitted
               for each change in land ownership or lease agreement.
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               <span class="ital">Concentration of animals</span> means the grouping together of animals in a confined area which does not have naturally
               growing vegetation and in which animal waste collects naturally or must be collected
               for storage.
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               <span class="ital">Director</span> means the director of the county health department.
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               <span class="ital">Expanded animal waste treatment works and disposal/utilization system</span> means existing facilities which require an expansion of the existing waste treatment
               system design capacity in order to accommodate an increase or proposed increase in
               waste production.
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               <span class="ital">Feedlot</span> means a lot or building, or combination of lots and buildings, intended for the confined
               feeding, breeding, raising or holding of animals and specifically designed as a confinement
               area in which animal waste may accumulate or where the concentration of animals is
               such that a vegetation cover cannot be maintained. Pastures shall not be considered
               feedlots under this rule.
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               <span class="ital">Groundwater</span> means those waters in the saturated zone of the earth, as defined in 15A NCAC 2L.
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               <span class="ital">HCHD</span> means Halifax County Health Department.
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               <span class="ital">Intensive livestock operation (ILO)</span> means any enclosure, pen, feedlot, building or group of buildings intended to be
               used or actually used to feed, confine, maintain or stable cattle, horses, sheep,
               goats, turkeys, chickens, swine, or any combination thereof, where their dietary needs
               are met primarily by means other than grazing.
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               <span class="ital">Job classification</span> means a system of classifying an ILO according to the volume of animal waste produced.
               The SCS Field Office Technical Guide (FOTG) section IV as interpreted by SCS will
               be used to classify all ILOs. See Appendix A, set out following this division, for
               approximate animal numbers in each classification.
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               <span class="ital">New animal waste treatment works and disposal/utilization system</span> means facilities which are constructed and operated at the site where no ILO existed
               previously or where an ILO has been abandoned or unused for a period of two years
               or more.
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               <span class="ital">Operation</span> means from the date at which an ILO is populated with animals.
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               <span class="ital">Permanent waste storage facility</span> means the location used to store animal waste and animal waste by-products for at
               least six months out of the year.
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               <span class="ital">Residues from agricultural products and processing</span> means solids, semi-solids or liquid residues from food and beverage processing and
               handling; silviculture; agriculture; and aquaculture operations that are nontoxic,
               nonhazardous and contain no domestic wastewater.
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               <span class="ital">SCS</span> means United States Soil Conservation Service.
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               <span class="ital">Surface water</span> means all water which is open to the atmosphere and subject to surface runoff.
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               (Ord. of 4-27-92, Â§ 3; Ord. of 11-22-93; Ord. of 7-25-94; Ord. of 1-6-97)
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            <p class="refcross0" block_type="hang"><b>Cross referenceâ€” </b>
               Definitions and rules of construction generally, <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH1GEPR_S1-2DERUCO" class="section-link" data-product-id="12479">Â§ 1-2</a>.
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