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Animal Feeding Operations
Publications
- 2005 Second Circuit Court Decision on CAFOs
On February 28, 2005, the Second Circuit issued its decision in Waterkeeper Alliance et al. v. EPA, 399 F.3d 486. EPA is updating the 2003 CAFO rule to reflect the changes requested by the Court.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
12/19/2005
- Agency Interpretation on Applicability of Section 402 of the Clean Water Act to Water Transfers
This memo addresses the question of whether the NPDES permitting program under Section 402 of the Clean Water Act is applicable to water control facilities that merely convey or connect navigable waters. It states that Congress generally intended for water transfers to be subject to oversight by water resource management agencies and State non-NPDES authorities, rather than the NPDES permitting program. This memo also states that the Agency will initiate a rulemaking to this effect; the Water Transfer Final Rule codifies this memorandum and clarifies that NPDES permits are not needed for water transfers.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
08/05/2005
- Applicability of the NPDES Program to Discharges of Stormwater Associated with Construction Activity at, or Construction of, Livestock Feeding Facilities
Memorandum clarifying the interpretation of the NPDES regulations as they apply to discharges of stormwater associated with construction activity, construction of, livestock feeding facilitites involving animal feeding operations, concentrated animal feeding operations, and feedlots.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
02/05/1998
- Benefits of Reducing Nitrate Contamination in Private Domestic Wells Under CAFO Regulatory Options
Supporting document for the CAFO Final Rule. Report provides estimated reductions in nitrogen and other animal waste-related contaminants that leach through soil and reach ground water (EPA-821-R-03-008).
Document Type:
Technical and Issue Papers
Date Published:
12/01/2002
- Comments on Region VIII's Approach to Writing Effluent Limits for Confined Animal Feeding Operations Smaller than 1,000 Animal Units
This document contains opinions from the Office of General Counsel (OGC) and from other Regional Offices on the approach limit writing in regards to small CAFO.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
12/15/1976
- Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Final Rulemaking – Fact Sheet
Fact Sheet on revisions to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting requirements and Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards (ELG) for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). This rulemaking is in response to the Waterkeeper decision issued by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in February 2005.
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
10/30/2008
- Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Proposed Rulemaking: Date Extension
EPA seeks comments on a proposal to extend the dates for newly defined concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to seek National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit coverage and for permitted CAFOs to develop and implement nutrient management plans (NMPs) as required by EPA's 2003 CAFO rule.
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Date Published:
05/01/2007
- Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Proposed Rulemaking: Fact Sheet
This proposal would revise several aspects of EPA’s current regulations governing discharges from CAFOs.
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
06/01/2006
- Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
This document proposes a new provision that would allow CAFO operators to voluntarily certify that they do not discharge or propose to discharge and as such have no duty to apply for a permit.
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
03/01/2008
- Cost Methodology for the Final Revisions to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Regulation and the Effluent Guidelines for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
Supporting document for the CAFO Final Rule. Provides the data, methodology, and farm level costs for various regulatory options for CAFOs (EPA-821-R-03-004).
Document Type:
Technical and Issue Papers
Date Published:
12/01/2002
- Desk Statement Between EPA and USDA Offices Regarding Collaboration on Cost and Capability Assessment
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
11/01/2001
- Desk Statement Between EPA and USDA Offices Regarding Interactions on Proposed Revisions to CAFO Rule
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
11/01/2001
- Development Document for the Final Revisions to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Regulation and the Effluent Guidelines for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).
Supporting document for the CAFO Final Rule. Technical Development Document (TDD) presents the legal authority, data, and summaries of the analysis that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used to revise regulations for the concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) industry (EPA-821-R-03-001).
Document Type:
Technical and Issue Papers
Date Published:
12/01/2002
- Draft Report: Alternative Technologies/Uses for Manure
This document is a compilation of alternative uses for manure from animal feeding operations (AFOs). This document serves as a reference concerning the use of alternative technologies to address situations where the overapplication of manure to croplands can cause excess nutrients to enter surface waters and ground water through runoff and other hydrologic processes. These excess nutrients can cause numerous water quality impacts. Utilization of these technologies may assist operators in meeting National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit requirements.
Document Type:
Technical and Issue Papers
Date Published:
03/01/2001
- Economic Analysis of the Final Revisions to the NPDES and Effluent Guidelines for CAFOs
Supporting document for the CAFO Final Rule. Economic Analysis (EA) summarizes EPA's analysis of the estimated annual compliance costs and the economic impacts that may be incurred by affected operations that are subject to the final revisions (EPA-821-R-03-002).
Document Type:
Technical and Issue Papers
Date Published:
12/01/2002
- Environmental and Economic Benefit Analysis of Final Revisions to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Regulation and the Effluent Guidelines for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
Supporting document for the CAFO Final Rule. Environmental and Economic Benefit Analysis (Benefits support document) presents the analysis that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used to calculate benefits of the revise regulations for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) (EPA-821-R-03-003).
Document Type:
Technical and Issue Papers
Date Published:
12/01/2002
- Estimation of National Economic Benefits Using the National Water Pollution Control Assessment Model to Evaluate Regulatory Options for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)
Supporting document for the CAFO Final Rule. Report describes the national-scale water quality model for simulating the water quality and economic benefits that result from various water pollution control policies (EPA-821-R-03-009).
Document Type:
Technical and Issue Papers
Date Published:
12/01/2002
- Interim Statement and Guidance on Application of Pesticides to Waters of the United States in Compliance with FIFRA
Addresses two sets of circumstances for which EPA believes that the application of a pesticide to waters of the United States consistent with all relevant requirements of FIFRA does not constitute the discharge of a pollutant that requires a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit under the Clean Water Act. These two cases are (1) the application of pesticides directly to waters of the United States in order to control pests (for example mosquito larvae or aquatic weeds that are present in the water) and (2) the application of pesticides to control pests that are present over waters of the United States that result in a portion of the pesticide being deposited to water bodies (for example when insecticides are aerially applied to a forest canopy where water may be present below the canopy or when insecticides are applied over water for control of adult mosquitos).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/11/2003
- Interpretive Statement and Proposed Rule on the Application of Pesticides to Waters of the U.S. in Compliance with FIFRA
EPA is issuing this interpretation of the Clean Water Act (CWA) to address issues regarding coverage under the CWA of pesticides regulated under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) that are applied to or over, including near, waters of the United States. This Memorandum is issued to address the question of whether National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits under section 402 of the CWA are required for the applications of pesticides that comply with relevant requirements of FIFRA. EPA provided public notice of and solicited public comment on its interpretation of the CWA with regard to this question.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
01/25/2005
- Interpretive Statement and Regional Guidance on the Clean Water Act's Exemption for Return Flows from Irrigated Agriculture
In Headwaters, Inc. vs. Talent Irrigation District, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that an applicator of aquatic herbicides was required to obtain a NPDES permit under the Clean Water Act.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
03/29/2002
- Memorandum: Charge to the NPDES/Pesticides Work Group
Signed by G. Tracy Mehan, III, Assistant Administrator for Water and Stephen Johnson, Assistant Administrator for Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances that directed an EPA workgroup to compare the risk management/risk mitigation measures that have been adopted as a result of the FIFRA label relative to actions that would be required as a result of an NPDES permit. It also directed the group to identify any recommendations that could be made under either FIFRA/FQPA (Food Quality Protection Act) or CWA that would assist in better coordination, integration, and increased efficiencies between the programs and continued protection of the aquatic environment. These could include modifications in the pesticide registration process or changes in the approach to risk
management under the CWA and/or FIFRA.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/11/2003
- Memorandum: Clarifying Responsibility of Integrators and their Contract Growers
Memo signed on March 23, 1999 by J. Charles Fox, Assistant Administrator of the Office of Water to The Honorable Jane Nishida, Secretary of Maryland Department of Environment, clarifying responsibility of integrators and their contract growers.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
03/23/1999
- Non-Water Quality Impact Estimates for Animal Feeding Operations
Supporting document for the CAFO Final Rule. Report describes the non-water quality impacts analysis for the CAFO Final Rule.
Document Type:
Technical and Issue Papers
Date Published:
12/01/2002
- NPDES Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) Form
Form used by NPDES stormwater permittees to submit analytical monitoring results to the appropriate NPDES permitting authority.
Document Type:
Permit Applications and Forms
Date Published:
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- NPDES Form 1 Application: General Information - Consolidated Permits Program
General information application. Must be submitted by all facilities applying for an individual NPDES permit, with the exception of POTWs, TWTDS, and MS4s serving a population greater than 100,000. Note: You need Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or 8.0 in order to open this file. Even though this publication is a PDF file, this document allows you to type directly onto the form and allows you to save the PDF with the form fields populated. You should enter your facility information on the form, print it, sign it, and mail the form to the address stated in the instructions.
Document Type:
Permit Applications and Forms
Date Published:
08/01/1990
- NPDES Form 2B Application
Revised application for permit to discharge wastewater from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and aquatic animal production facilities. Note: You need Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or 8.0 in order to open this file. Even though this publication is a PDF file, this document allows you to type directly onto the form and allows you to save the PDF with the form fields populated. You should enter your facility information on the form, print it, sign it, and mail the form to the address stated in the instructions.
Document Type:
Permit Applications and Forms
Date Published:
07/13/2009
- Pesticides; Draft Guidance on Labeling Statements on Products Used for Adult Mosquito Control; Notice of Availability
EPA is seeking public comment on this draft notice which provides guidance to registrants on EPA's policy on labeling statements for pesticide products used for wide-area applications to control adult mosquitoes. The specific label statements and label organization principles recommended in this draft notice are intended to improve existing labels by clarifying language conveying environmental hazards posed by these products, as well as specific use directions and instructions to the applicators. The Agency believes that adoption of these recommendations will help pesticide users and pesticide enforcement officials to achieve more effective mosquito control and protection of public health, while ensuring that use of these products will not pose unreasonable risks to the environment. Comments must be received on or before July 27, 2004. Click here to view this draft guidance.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
04/28/2004
- Policy on Using the Clean Water State Revolving Fund to Finance Section 320 Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan Projects
CAFOs and stormwater programs that have been issued Phase I or Phase II stormwater permits can not be defined as nonpoint source pollution and can not receive funding as a nonpoint source project. This memorandum clarifies that they are eligible for funding if the project is included in the state's approved National Estuary Program's Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP). Section 320 for CCMPs addresses estuary problems, and the Clean Water State Revolving Fund may be used to fund any or all of the projects identified in the plans to correct estuary problems. Examples of types of projects include wetlands purchase, septic system upgrades, stormwater system enhancements, and agricultural waste management systems, including manure containment ponds, loading, spreading, and injection equipment.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
03/01/2001
- Policy Statement on Scope of Discharge Authorization and Shield Associated with NPDES Permits
EPA's position on the scope of the authorization to discharge under an NPDES permit and the shield thus associated with the permit authorization.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/01/1994
- Pollutant Loading Reductions for the Effluent Limitations Guidelines for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
Supporting document for the CAFO Final Rule. Report describes the application of the Groundwater Loading Effects of Agricultural Management Systems (GLEAMS) to determine the effects of various land application controls. The report also describes the methodologies used to calculate production area loads (EPA-821-R-03-007).
Document Type:
Technical and Issue Papers
Date Published:
12/01/2002
- Proposed Revised Compliance Dates under the National Pollutant Discharge
This document proposes to extend certain compliance dates in the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting requirements and Effluent
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
01/06/2008
- Protecting the Nation's Waters Through Effective NPDES Permits: A Strategic Plan FY 2001 and Beyond
The Water Permits Division's Strategic Plan discusses the background of the Water Permits Division, their organization and resources, current implementation activities, and the Division's vision, mission, challenges, strategic issues, goals, and key actions from FY 2001 and beyond. EPA-833-R-01-001.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/01/2001
- Questions and Answers about the 2008 Final CAFO Rule
This supporting document provides a series of questions and answers relating to the 2008 Final CAFO Rule.
Document Type:
Program Status Reports
Date Published:
12/03/2008
- Search General Permits
EPA is gathering PDF copies of NPDES general permits and fact sheets for major facilities issued after November 1, 2002. Click here to search and view general permits issued by permit category, state, permit title, or permit number.
Document Type:
Example and General Permits
Date Published:
11/01/2002
- Spanish Version: Estrategia Nacional Unificada para Operaciones de Alimentación Animal
The USDA-EPA Unified National Strategy for AFOs in Spanish
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
03/09/1999
- Statement of Involvement between EPA and USDA about Implementing the CAFO Regulations
Statement of involvement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on cooperating on the implementation of the Clean Water Act regulations for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
Document Type:
Program Status Reports
Date Published:
05/16/2003
- Supporting Statement for the Information Collection Request for the Final NPDES and ELG Regulatory Revisions for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).
Information Collection Request (ICR) for the CAFO Final Rule (EPA ICR Number: 1989.02).
Document Type:
Technical and Issue Papers
Date Published:
12/14/2002
- Technical Support Document for the Revisions to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Regulations for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
Supporting document for the CAFO Final Rule. Support materials for the final NPDES CAFO regulations including affected entities and state costs (EPA-821-R-03-002).
Document Type:
Technical and Issue Papers
Date Published:
12/16/2002
- Unified National Strategy for Animal Feeding Operations
Sets forth a framework of actions for USDA and EPA under existing legal and regulatory authority to reduce impacts to water quality and public health from improperly managed animal wastes.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
03/09/1999
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