Ohio Administrative Code › Title 901:10 - Livestock Environmental Permitting › Chapter 901:10-1 - General Requirements › Section 901:10-1-06 - Certified livestock manager

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Purpose and applicability.
(1) The management and handling of manure at
			 a major concentrated animal feeding facility, shall be conducted by or under
			 the supervision of a person that has a current livestock manager certification
			 and that is reasonably available to the facility.
(2) No person who is a livestock manure
			 broker shall buy, sell, or land apply annually more than four thousand five
			 hundred dry tons of manure or more than twenty-five million gallons of liquid
			 manure unless the person is a certified livestock manager.
(3) No person who is a livestock manure
			 applicator shall land apply and transport annually more than four thousand five
			 hundred dry tons of manure or more than twenty-five million gallons of liquid
			 manure unless the person is a certified livestock manager.
(4) Any person subject to this rule who is
			 either a livestock manure broker or a livestock manure applicator shall
			 maintain an operating record on forms provided by the department and other
			 forms selected by the livestock manure broker or livestock manure applicator
			 and approved by the director. The operating record shall be retained for a
			 minimum period of five years, shall be made available to the director upon
			 request, and shall record and document in accordance with paragraph (B) of rule
			 901:10-2-16
			 of the Administrative Code.
(5) In
			 order for a person to manage or handle manure at a major concentrated animal
			 feeding facility or for a person to either transport and land apply manure or
			 to, buy, sell or land apply annually more than four thousand five hundred dry
			 tons of solid manure or more than twenty-five million gallons of liquid manure
			 in this state, they shall obtain a livestock manager certification from the
			 department. In the alternative, the person may present a certified copy of an
			 equivalent and valid manure manager certification from another state, which has
			 been verified by the director or his designated representative, together with
			 the appropriate fee as listed in the fee rule.
(6) This rule does not apply to a person who
			 is an owner or operator of a concentrated animal feeding facility permitted by
			 the director in accordance with section
			 903.02 of the Revised Code or
			 section 903.03 of the Revised Code,
			 unless that person applies other manure from another animal feeding facility,
			 concentrated animal feeding facility, or major concentrated animal feeding
			 facility in excess of four thousand five hundred tons per year of solid manure
			 or more than twenty-five million gallons of liquid manure per year.
(7) A person is considered to be under
			 supervision of a certified livestock manager if the holder of the certification
			 is reasonably available, but not necessarily physically present, during the
			 management and handling of manure. The certified livestock manager cannot claim
			 the lack of presence as a defense under Chapter 903. of the Revised
			 Code.