StateRegulations% forLand% Application
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State Regulations for Land
Application TCEQ Requirements – 30 TAC 321.31-47
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“Agronomic Rates” Land application at rates in accordance with a plan for nutrient management and…[to] provide crop with needed nutrients for optimum health and growth. 30 TAC 321.32 (1)
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“Crop Requirements”
Amount of nutrients that must be present in soil to ensure that crop needs are met, while accounting for immobilization processes. 30 TAC 321.32 (16)
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“Land Management Unit” Land owned, operated, controlled, rented, or leased by AFO to which manure is OR MAY BE applied; does NOT apply to lands not owned, operated, controlled, rented, or leased by AFO for off-site transfers. 30 TAC 321.32 (25)
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“Recharge Feature” Natural or artificial; significant hydrolo-gic connection; wells, faults, sinkholes or other direct connections; permeable soils over shallow groundwater; water courses bisecting an aquifer. 30 TAC 321.32 (46)
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“Water in the State” Groundwater, ponds, reservoirs, springs, rivers, streams, creeks, wetlands, marshes, and ALL OTHER BODIES OF SURFACE WATER, natural or artificial, navigable or non-navigable, including beds and banks of ALL watercourses. 30 TAC 321.32 (58)
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“Well”
Any artificial excavation (in use, aban-doned, unused, capped, plugged); for production, observation, injection, or drainage. 30 TAC 321.32 (59)
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Off-‐‑Site Manure Transfers • Selling or giving (includes subsidizing)
manure to second parties for land application
• Quantities greater than a pickup load • Maintain log of date, recipient’s name
and address, and amount transferred • Make available recent nutrient analysis 30 TAC 321.36(e)(2-4)
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LMU Buffers
• Sinkholes protected by 100’ buffer • Assume this applies to ANY recharge
feature 30 TAC 321.36(f)
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LMU Soil Sampling • 0-2”, 2-6”, 6-24” if manure not
incorporated • 0-6”, 6-24” if manure incorporated 30 TAC 321.36(g)(3)(D)(i-ii) (Phosphorus provisions: 30 TAC 321.40(k)(2)
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Annual Reporting
Includes “total amount of manure…transferred to other persons during the reporting period.” 30 TAC 321.36(j)(4)
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Buffers for RCS or Pens • Public drinking water wells: 500 feet • Private drinking wells: 150 feet • Irrigation-ONLY wells: 100 feet 30 TAC 321.38(b) What does this have to do with land application of manure?
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Buffers for Land Application • No NEW LMUs within well buffer zones
in 30 TAC 321.38(b) • Exceptions approved case by case;
require PE or PG documentation • 100-foot buffer between application
and “water in the state”
30 TAC 321.40(g)