KANSAS STATUTES AND CODES

2-3318. Application of swine waste; authority of secretary of health and environment; nutrient utilization plans, review and approval; penalties for violations.

2-3318

Chapter 2.--AGRICULTURE Article 33.--CHEMIGATION SAFETY

2-3318. Application of swine waste; authority of secretary of health and environment; nutrient utilization plans, review and approval; penalties for violations. (a) Regardless of whether irrigation water is added, whenever swine waste is applied to crops or land, the secretary of health and environment is authorized to investigate, inspect or conduct any manner of examination or review of the application of swine waste. No swine waste shall be applied to crops or land in excess of agronomic application rates.

(b) The secretary of health and environment shall review and approve all nutrient utilization plans that provide for the application of swine waste to crops or land and that are submitted by swine confined feeding facilities pursuant to K.S.A. 65-1,182 and amendments thereto if the plans demonstrate that swine waste will be applied pursuant to agronomic application rates and include all required information. Nutrient utilization plans shall be submitted on a form required by the secretary of health and environment.

(c) Failure of the operator of a swine confined feeding facility to implement a nutrient utilization plan approved by the secretary of health and environment shall be considered a violation of the Kansas chemigation safety law for which the secretary may suspend a permit pursuant to K.S.A. 2-3310 and amendments thereto or may impose a civil penalty pursuant to K.S.A. 2-3317 and amendments thereto, or both.

(d) This section shall be part of and supplemental to the Kansas chemigation safety law.

History: L. 1998, ch. 143, § 24; L. 2002, ch. 181, § 14; L. 2009, ch. 128, § 34; July 1.