HB 1177 -- Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

Sponsor:  Guest

This bill modifies the statutes on concentrated animal feeding
operations (CAFO) making Missouri's regulations consistent with
federal regulations.  The bill:

(1)  Requires the Missouri Clean Water Commission to promulgate
rules regulating the establishment, permitting, design,
construction, operation, and management of a Class I CAFO;

(2)  Requires that regulatory or local controls imposed by any
form of local government concerning the establishment,
permitting, design, construction, operation, and management of a
Class I CAFO must be consistent with the provisions of the bill.
Local governing bodies, however, may impose stricter controls if
those controls are recommended and approved by the board of the
respective local soil and water conservation district and based
on empirical peer-reviewed scientific and economic data that
clearly documents the need and cost-effectiveness of the more
restrictive controls;

(3)  Permits the Department of Natural Resources to designate an
animal feeding operation as a CAFO if it is determined to be a
significant contributor of pollutants to the waters of the state;

(4)  Clarifies that the terms "point source" and "water
contaminant source" as defined for the purposes of the Missouri
Clean Water Law are not to include agricultural storm water
discharges and return flows from irrigated agriculture; and

(5)  Clarifies that the term "discharge" as defined for the
purpose of the Missouri Clean Water Law is not to include an
accidental release of contaminants to the waters of the state
where the contaminants are confined entirely upon the owner's
land and the contaminants are removed so that limitations set in
the law are not exceeded.

Missouri House of Representatives
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Last Updated September 23, 2004 at 11:14 am