S.C. Code Regs. § § 61-43.500.20

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 11, November 22, 2024

Section 61-43.500.20 - Submittal Requirements

A. Each integrating company that contracts with animal producers that operate facilities located within the State shall submit to the Department a Request for Registration form, as provided by the Department. The Integrator shall work with the Department to identify growers that are unpermitted. The Department may schedule an annual inspection in order to review grower lists and identify unpermitted farms. The integrator shall provide the Department any additional information needed to contact unpermitted growers contracting with their company.

B. Animal Manure Analysis Information. If the producers that contract with the integrator use the same feed rations and have dry animal manure analyses that come out to be consistently the same, they may qualify to use one (1) analysis for their individual testing requirement. However, if any of these producers utilize a different feed ration, utilize a significant amount of medications as compared to the others, or use any other inconsistent bedding materials, animal manure treatments, or vector treatments, they shall be required to run a separate and individual analysis on their animal manure. The Integrator is responsible for notifying the Department of any significant feed composition changes. This benefit shall not be available to liquid manure handling systems, since other factors specific to each site, such as rainfall, could affect the nutrient analysis of the manure.

C. If an integrating company can certify through general feed composition reports that a certain constituent, such as arsenic, is not present in their feed or medications, the producers that contract with that integrator may be exempt from testing for that constituent. The integrator shall submit a written request, along with general feed composition reports, and a list of growers who are using this feed ration. The Department shall approve this report in writing before the constituent can be removed from the analysis requirements. Each grower who is included in this exemption shall be notified in writing by the Department.

D. Swine Integrators must submit a plan addressing cumulative environmental and public health impacts of their contracted facilities with their first request for integrator certification. The plan must cover the integrator's existing contract growers and the projected three (3) year increase in the number of permitted facilities and swine. The plan must include:

1. The general area served by the integrator;

2. The number of existing swine facilities under contract;

3. The number of swine grown (broken down by facility);

4. The number of projected new facilities (broken down by facility size) with the total number of swine;

5. The integrating company's: procedures, protocols, policies, programs, required manure treatment and utilization technologies, etc. to ensure the cumulative impacts from their contracted facilities do not cause any adverse impact to the environment or public health; and

6. An assessment of the adverse environmental or public impact, if any, from the existing and proposed swine facilities under contract with the integrator.

7. The Swine Integrator must also provide to the Department any other supplemental information that may reasonably be required by the Department to assess cumulative adverse environmental or public health impacts.

8. The environmental and public health impact assessment plan must be approved by the Department before integrator certification can be granted. Once approved, the integrator may update the plan at any time. Also, the Department may require the plan be updated from time to time.

E. All permits for growers under contract with the integrator must be in accordance with the integrator's approved plan.

F. All integrators are required to submit, on an annual basis by December 31^st of each year, a list of active and inactive growers that have been added and/or released from their contracts.

S.C. Code Regs. § 61-43.500.20

Replaced and amended by State Register Volume 45, Issue No. 05, eff. 5/28/2021.