Section 33-16-03.1-12 - Prohibited activitiesIt shall be unlawful for any person:
1. To feed any livestock on the ice cover of streams or lakes.2. To create or maintain an immediate threat to human, public, or environmental health.3. To dispose of an animal carcass along or in any stream, lake, river, or other surface water; to bury the carcass near any such surface water; to dispose of a carcass in an area that will discharge into waters of the state; to dispose of a carcass in any structure used to store or treat liquid manure, process wastewater, or storm water unless the department-approved system is designed for such a purpose; or to dispose of a carcass in a manner that is in violation of North Dakota Administrative Code article 33-20 or North Dakota Century Code chapter 36-14.4. To cause pollution of waters of the state or to place or cause to be placed any wastes in a location where they are likely to cause pollution of waters of the state.5. To discharge any pollutants into waters of the state thereby reducing the quality so as not to comply with the water quality standards established by the department, except facilities that are in compliance with subsection 6.6. To discharge manure or process wastewater from a facility except: a. The overflow of a properly operated manure storage structure due to a chronic or catastrophic rainfall greater than a twenty-five-year, twenty-four-hour event or greater than a one hundred-year, twenty-four-hour event for swine, chicken, turkey, or veal calf facilities; orb. Seepage from the manure storage structures that is within the standards as specified in the North Dakota Livestock Program Design Manual.N.D. Admin Code 33-16-03.1-12
Effective December 1, 2004.Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 370, October 2018, effective 10/1/2018.General Authority: NDCC 61-28-04
Law Implemented: NDCC 61-28-04