510 ILCS 77/1
Short title
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Livestock Management Facilities Act. (Source: P.A. 89-456, eff. 5-21-96.)
Illinois Compiled Statutes 510 ILCS 77 — Livestock Management Facilities Act.
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Policy
Policy. (a) The General Assembly finds the following: (1) Enhancements to the current regulations dealing with livestock production facilities are needed. (2) The livestock industry is experiencing rapid changes as a result of many different occurrences within the industry including increased sophistication of producti…
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Definitions
Definitions. In this Act words and phrases have the meanings set forth in the following Sections, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (Source: P.A. 89-456, eff. 5-21-96.)
510 ILCS 77/10.5
Agency
Agency. "Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. (Source: P.A. 89-456, eff. 5-21-96.)
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Animal feeding operation
Animal feeding operation. "Animal feeding operation" means a feeding operation as defined in the Illinois Environmental Protection Act and the rules promulgated under that Act concerning agriculture related pollution. (Source: P.A. 89-456, eff. 5-21-96.)
510 ILCS 77/10.10
Animal unit
Animal unit. "Animal unit" means a unit of measurement for any animal feeding operation calculated as follows: (1) Brood cows and slaughter and feeder cattle multiplied by 1.0. (2) Milking dairy cows multiplied by 1.4. (3) Young dairy stock multiplied by 0.6. (4) Swine weighing over 55 pounds multiplied by 0.4. (5) Swi…
510 ILCS 77/10.15
Certified livestock manager
Certified livestock manager. "Certified livestock manager" means a person that has been duly certified by the Department as an operator of a livestock waste handling facility. (Source: P.A. 89-456, eff. 5-21-96.)
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Department
Department. "Department" means the Illinois Department of Agriculture. (Source: P.A. 89-456, eff. 5-21-96.)
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Farm residence
Farm residence. "Farm residence" means any residence on a farm owned or occupied by the farm owners, operators, tenants, or seasonal or year-round hired workers. For purposes of this definition, a "farm" is the land, buildings, and machinery used in the commercial production of farm products, and "farm products" are th…
510 ILCS 77/10.24
Karst Area
Karst Area. "Karst area" means an area with a land surface containing sinkholes, large springs, disrupted land drainage, and underground drainage systems associated with karstified carbonate bedrock and caves or a land surface without these features but containing a karstified carbonate bedrock unit generally overlain…
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Lagoon
Lagoon. "Lagoon" means any excavated, diked, or walled structure or combination of structures designed for biological stabilization and storage of livestock wastes. A lagoon does not include structures such as manufactured slurry storage structures or pits under buildings as defined in rules under the Environmental Pro…
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Karstified carbonate bedrock
Karstified carbonate bedrock. "Karstified carbonate bedrock" means a carbonate bedrock unit (limestone or dolomite) that has a pronounced conduit or secondary porosity due to dissolution of the rock along joints, fractures, or bedding plains. (Source: P.A. 91-110, eff. 7-13-99.)
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Livestock management facility
Livestock management facility. "Livestock management facility" means any animal feeding operation, livestock shelter, or on-farm milking and accompanying milk-handling area. Two or more livestock management facilities under common ownership, where the facilities are not separated by a minimum distance of 1/4 mile, and…
510 ILCS 77/10.35
Livestock waste
Livestock waste. "Livestock waste" means livestock excreta and associated feed losses, bedding, wash waters, sprinkling waters from livestock cooling, precipitation polluted by falling on or flowing onto an animal feeding operation, and other materials polluted by livestock. (Source: P.A. 89-456, eff. 5-21-96.)
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Livestock waste handling facility
Livestock waste handling facility. "Livestock waste handling facility" means individually or collectively those immovable constructions or devices, except sewers, used for collecting, pumping, treating, or disposing of livestock waste or for the recovery of by-products from the livestock waste. Two or more livestock wa…
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Modified
Modified. "Modified" means structural changes to a lagoon that increase its volumetric capacity. (Source: P.A. 89-456, eff. 5-21-96.)
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New facility
New facility. "New facility" means a livestock management facility or a livestock waste handling facility the construction or expansion of which is commenced on or after the effective date of this Act. Expanding a facility where the fixed capital cost of the new components constructed within a 2-year period does not ex…
510 ILCS 77/10.47
Non-farm residence
Non-farm residence. "Non-farm residence" means any residence which is not a farm residence. (Source: P.A. 89-456, eff. 5-21-96.)
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Owner or operator
Owner or operator. "Owner or operator" means any person who owns, leases, controls, or supervises a livestock management facility or livestock waste-handling facility. (Source: P.A. 89-456, eff. 5-21-96.)
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Person
Person. "Person" means any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision, state agency, or any other legal entity or their legal representative, agent, or assigns. (Source: P.A. 89-456, eff. 5-21-96.)
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Populated area
Populated area. "Populated area" means any area where at least 10 inhabited non-farm residences are located or where at least 50 persons frequent a common place of assembly or a non-farm business at least once per week. (Source: P.A. 89-456, eff. 5-21-96.)
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Filing notice of intent to construct and construction data; registration of facilities
Filing notice of intent to construct and construction data; registration of facilities. (a) An owner or operator shall file a notice of intent to construct for a livestock management facility or livestock waste handling facility with the Department prior to construction to establish a base date, which shall be valid fo…
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Public informational meeting; lagoons and non-lagoon structures
Public informational meeting; lagoons and non-lagoon structures. (a) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1999, within 7 days after receiving a form giving notice of intent to construct (i) a new livestock management facility or livestock waste handling facility serving 1,000 or more animal units t…
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Final determination
Final determination. (a) Within 15 calendar days of the close of the comment period under subsection (b) of Section 12, the Department shall determine if, more likely than not, the provisions of the Act have been met and shall send notice to the applicant and the county board indicating that construction may proceed. I…
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Livestock waste handling facilities other than earthen livestock waste lagoons; construction standards; certification; inspection; removal-from-service requirements
Livestock waste handling facilities other than earthen livestock waste lagoons; construction standards; certification; inspection; removal-from-service requirements. (a) After the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1999, livestock waste handling facilities other than earthen livestock waste lagoons used for the s…
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