Bill Title: To prohibit a person from land applying manure under specified circumstances, and to establish related requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-08-18 - To Agriculture and Natural Resources
[HB611 Detail]Download: Ohio-2013-HB611-Introduced.html
As Introduced
| 130th General Assembly | | Regular Session | | 2013-2014 |
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Cosponsors:
Representatives Fedor, Ashford, Foley, Antonio, Mallory, Hagan, R., Carney, Redfern
A BILL
| To enact section 1511.10 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
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prohibit a person from land applying manure under | 2 |
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specified circumstances, and to establish related | 3 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That section 1511.10 of the Revised Code be | 5 |
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enacted to read as follows: | 6 |
| Sec. 1511.10. (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) | 7 |
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of this section, no person shall land apply manure under any of | 8 |
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the following circumstances: | 9 |
| (a) On snow-covered or frozen soil; | 10 |
| (b) When the top two inches of soil are saturated from | 11 |
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precipitation; | 12 |
| (c) When the local weather forecast for the land application | 13 |
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area contains greater than a fifty per cent chance of | 14 |
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precipitation exceeding one-half inch in a twenty-four-hour | 15 |
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period. | 16 |
| (2) A person may apply manure to snow-covered or frozen soil | 17 |
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for emergency purposes only in accordance with procedures | 18 |
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established in the United States department of agriculture natural | 19 |
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resources conservation service conservation practice standard | 20 |
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nutrient management code 590. | 21 |
| (B)(1) Beginning on the first day of December each year, a | 22 |
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person that intends to land apply manure shall ensure the | 23 |
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availability of sufficient storage for manure for at least one | 24 |
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hundred twenty days in a storage facility that is designed to | 25 |
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prevent discharges to surface and ground water. | 26 |
| (2) The person shall keep records of the volume of manure | 27 |
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stored. | 28 |
| (C) Divisions (A) and (B) of this section do not apply to | 29 |
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agricultural operations where agricultural animals are capable of | 30 |
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producing three hundred fifty tons of manure or less in a calendar | 31 |
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year. Manure produced by such an operation shall be stored away | 32 |
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from streams and highly erodible ground. The owner or operator of | 33 |
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such an agricultural operation shall keep records of the volume of | 34 |
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manure stored. | 35 |
