§ 15-20-903 - Definitions. - Arkansas Statutes

15-20-903. Definitions.

As used in this subchapter:

(1) "Commission" means the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission;

(2) "Conservation district" means a conservation district created under the Conservation Districts Law, 14-125-101 et seq.;

(3) "Director" means the Executive Director of the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission;

(4) "Land application" means the application of litter, in whole or in part, to land;

(5) "Litter" means byproducts associated with the confinement of poultry, including excrement, feed wastes, bedding materials, composted carcasses, and any combinations thereof;

(6) "Litter management system" means any method used to dispose or utilize litter;

(7) "Person" means any individual, partnership, company, association, fiduciary, corporation, or any organized group of persons whether incorporated or not;

(8) "Poultry" means chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and any other domesticated birds;

(9) "Poultry processor" means an entity that processes poultry for commercial sale;

(10) (A) "Poultry feeding operation" means any lot or facility where two thousand five hundred (2,500) or more poultry are housed or confined and fed or maintained on any one (1) day in the preceding twelve-month period.

(B) Multiple poultry houses within a reasonable proximity to one another under the control of one (1) owner shall be considered one (1) facility; and

(11) "Waters within the state" means all streams, lakes, marshes, ponds, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, public or private, that are contained within, flow through, or border upon this state or any portion of the state.