Section 67-6529C - DEFINITIONSAs used in this act, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) "CAFO," also referred to as "concentrated animal feeding operation" or "confined animal feeding operation," means, for those counties that have requested a site suitability determination, a CAFO as defined in the applicable ordinance of the county wherein the CAFO is located. If the requesting county has not defined CAFO in its ordinances, CAFO means a lot or facility where the following conditions are met: (a) Animals have been, are, or will be stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of ninety (90) consecutive days or more in any twelve-month period;(b) Crops, vegetation, forage growth or postharvest residues are not sustained in the normal growing season over any portion of the lot or facility; and(c) The lot or facility is designed to confine or actually does confine as many as or more than the numbers of animals specified in any of the following categories: seven hundred (700) mature dairy cows, whether milked or dry; one thousand (1,000) veal calves; one thousand (1,000) cattle other than mature dairy cows or veal calves; two thousand five hundred (2,500) swine each weighing fifty-five (55) pounds or more; ten thousand (10,000) swine each weighing less than fifty-five (55) pounds; five hundred (500) horses; ten thousand (10,000) sheep or lambs; or eighty-two thousand (82,000) chickens. Two (2) or more concentrated animal feeding operations under common ownership are considered, for the purposes of this definition, to be a single animal feeding operation if they adjoin each other or if they use a common area or system for the disposal of wastes;
(2) "CAFO site advisory team" shall mean representatives of the Idaho state department of agriculture, Idaho department of environmental quality and Idaho department of water resources who review a site proposed for a CAFO, determine environmental risks and submit a suitability determination to a county. The department of agriculture shall serve as the lead agency for the team;(3) "Environmental risk" shall mean that risk to the environment deemed posed by a proposed CAFO site, as determined and categorized by the CAFO site advisory team and set forth in the site advisory team's suitability determination report;(4) "Suitability determination" shall mean that document created and submitted by the CAFO site advisory team after review and analysis of a proposed CAFO site that identifies the environmental risk categories related to a proposed CAFO site, describes the factors that contribute to the environmental risks and sets forth any possible mitigation of risk.[67-6529C, added 2001, ch. 381, sec. 3, p. 1337; am. 2006, ch. 218, sec. 1, p. 653; am. 2011, ch. 180, sec. 1, p. 511.]Amended by 2011 Session Laws, ch. 180,sec. 1, eff. 4/5/2011.