Abstract

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) enforces two different regulation s in the state of Kansas. One set of regulation s is from the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and applies to larger operations. The other is a set of Kansas regulation s created by our state legislature for smaller operations. EPA regulations pertain to confined feeding operation s in excess of 1,000 animal units and require an EPA National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. Because an animal unit for the NPDES permit is defined as one beef animal, a feedlot with a capacity of 1,000 or more will need to apply to KDHE for a NPDES permit. The main criterion of the permit is to contain the runoff volume from a 24-hour, 25-year frequency rainfall event.

Keywords: Cattlemen's Day, 1995, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station contribution, no. 95-357-S, Report of progress (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service), 727, Beef, Operations, Environmental regulations

How to Cite:

Harner, J. P., Hess, L. & Murphy, J. P., (1995) “Kansas environmental regulations”, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports 1(1), 55-58. doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/2378-5977.2030