A. The Department of Environmental Quality shall have environmental jurisdiction over:
1. Commercial manufacturers of fertilizers, grain and feed products, and chemicals, and over manufacturing of food and kindred products, tobacco, paper, lumber, wood, textile mill and other agricultural products;
2. Slaughterhouses, but not including feedlots at these facilities; and
3. Aquaculture and fish hatcheries,
including, but not limited to, discharges of pollutants and storm water to waters of the state, surface impoundments and land application of wastes and sludge, and other pollution originating at these facilities.
B. Facilities which store grain, feed, seed, fertilizer, and agricultural chemicals that are required by federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) regulations to obtain a permit for storm water discharges shall only be subject to the jurisdiction of the Department of Environmental Quality with respect to such storm water discharges.
Added by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 249, eff. July 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 324, § 45, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1994, c. 140, § 27, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Laws 1999, c. 413, § 12, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2000, c. 367, § 102, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000; Laws 2006, c. 201, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.