DEP Invites Comments On Supplement To Manure Management For Environmental Protection Guidance For Animal Manures And Agricultural Process Wastewater

The Department of Environmental Protection is inviting comments on a draft Supplement to the Manure Management For Environmental Protection Guidance covering animal manures and agricultural process wastewater.  (formal notice)

The criteria established in this Technical Guidance Document  are required to be followed by all operations applying manure or agricultural process wastewater, farms that pasture animals and farms managing an Animal Concentration Area  unless the operators obtain a permit or approval from the Department to implement alternative practices.

DEP is proposing changes to these major parts of the guidance--

-- Manure Management Plan Short Form

-- Manure Management Plan Workbook

-- Animals on the Operation

-- Environmentally Sensitive Areas

-- Agricultural Process Wastewater

-- Manure Spreader Calibration

Click Here for a copy of the draft Supplement.  Questions should be directed to Kathryn Bresaw at (717) 772-5650 or kbresaw@pa.gov. 

Written comments are due by September 25.  They can be submitted through DEP’s eComment webpage and by other methods.

Read the entire PA Bulletin notice for more information.

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[Posted: August 25, 2023]  PA Environment Digest