Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 22 > Chapter 49 - Beef Cattle Environmental Control Act

• Administrator: means the administrator, or his designee, for the animal industries division of the Idaho department of agriculture. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Beef cattle: means slaughter and feeder cattle or dairy heifers that are kept on or contiguous to the animal feeding operation and are owned or controlled by the animal feeding operation. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Beef cattle animal feeding operation: means an animal feeding operation which confines the number of slaughter and feeder cattle or dairy heifers as set forth in 40 C. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Best management practices: means practices, techniques or measures which are determined to be reasonable precautions, are a cost-effective and practicable means of preventing or reducing pollutants from point sources or nonpoint sources to a level compatible with environmental goals, including water quality goals and standards for waters of the state. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Department: means the Idaho department of agriculture. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of the Idaho department of agriculture or his designee. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Manure: means animal excrement that may also contain bedding, spilled feed, water or soil. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• modified: means structural changes and alterations to the wastewater storage containment facility which would require increased storage or containment capacity or such changes which would alter the function of the wastewater storage containment facility. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Noncompliance: means a practice or condition that causes an unauthorized discharge, or a practice or condition, that if left uncorrected, will cause an unauthorized discharge. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Nutrient management plan: means a plan prepared in conformance with the nutrient management standard, provisions required by 40 C. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Nutrient management standard: means the 1999 publication by the United States department of agriculture, natural resources conservation service, conservation practice standard, nutrient management code 590 or other equally protective standard approved by the director. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means any individual, association, partnership, firm, joint stock company, joint venture, trust, estate, political subdivision, public or private corporation, state or federal governmental department, agency or instrumentality, or any legal entity, which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Process wastewater: means liquid containing beef cattle manure, process-generated wastewater and any precipitation which comes into direct contact with livestock manure and facility products or byproducts. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Idaho Code 73-114
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
• Unauthorized discharge: means a discharge of process wastewater or livestock manure to state surface waters that does not meet the requirements of this chapter or water quality standards. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Wastewater storage and containment facilities: means the portion of an animal feeding operation where manure or process wastewater is stored or collected. See Idaho Code 22-4904
• Waters of the state: means all accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural and artificial, public and private, or parts thereof which are wholly or partially within, which flow through or border upon the state. See Idaho Code 22-4904