Texas Administrative Code › Title 31 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION › Part 17 - TEXAS STATE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION BOARD › Chapter 523 - AGRICULTURAL AND SILVICULTURAL WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT › Section 523.7 - Comprehensive Nutrient Management Planning in the North Bosque River Watershed

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Policy
				Statement. In accordance with §
									519.1 of this title (relating to
				Policy Statement) and the policy of the State Soil and Water Conservation Board
				to develop and implement a program to provide technical assistance for the
				development and implementation of soil and water conservation plans and soil
				and water conservation measures, this section is adopted.
(b) Definitions. The following words and
				terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the
				context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1)
				Animal feeding operation--A lot or facility (other than an aquatic animal
				production facility) where animals have been, are, or will be stabled or
				confined and fed or maintained for a total of 45 days or more in any 12-month
				period, and the animal confinement areas do not sustain crops, vegetation,
				forage growth, or postharvest residues in the normal growing season.
(2) Comprehensive nutrient management plan,
				herein referred to as CNMP--A resource management plan containing a grouping of
				conservation practices and management activities which, when combined into a
				conservation system, will help ensure that both agricultural production goals
				and natural resource concerns dealing with nutrient and organic by-products and
				their adverse impacts on water quality are achieved. A CNMP incorporates
				practices to utilize animal manure and organic by-products as a beneficial
				resource. To be certified, a CNMP must cover all lands that constitute the
				conservation management unit.
(3)
				Conservation management unit--For the purposes of this section and regarding
				comprehensive nutrient management planning, a conservation management unit
				includes the production area and land application activities which are onsite
				or are contiguous to the site.
(4)
				Environmental stewardship programs for owners and/or operators of animal
				feeding operations--Any program, administered by a governmental or
				non-governmental entity, which provides the owner or operator of an animal
				feeding operation with a mechanism for improving the overall efficiency of the
				operation, operating in accordance with all applicable state or federal laws
				pertaining to water quality, and furthers the effective conservation of the
				state's soil and water resources.
(5) North Bosque River watershed--The
				geographic area consisting of all the drainage area for the two designated
				water quality segments as defined in the two adopted Total Maximum Daily Loads
				for Phosphorus in the North Bosque River. The two designated water quality
				segments are segment 1226, the North Bosque River, extending from a point 100
				meters upstream of FM Road 185 in McLennan County to a point immediately
				upstream of the confluence of Indian Creek in Erath County, and segment 1255,
				the Upper North Bosque River, extending from a point immediately upstream of
				the confluence of Indian Creek in Erath County to the confluence of the North
				Fork and South Fork of the North Bosque River in Erath County.
(6) Natural Resources Conservation Service,
				herein referred to as NRCS--An agency of the United States Department of
				Agriculture which includes the agency formerly known as the Soil Conservation
				Service (SCS).
(7) NRCS - Field
				Office Technical Guide, herein referred to as NRCS - FOTG--The official NRCS
				guidelines, criteria, and standards for planning and applying conservation
				treatments.
(8) NRCS Technical
				Service Provider Process--The process by which a technical service provider
				obtains certification by NRCS to provide technical services including
				conservation planning, and/or the design, layout, and installation of approved
				conservation practices.
(9)
				Resource management plan--A site specific blueprint for implementation of soil
				and water conservation land improvement measures. It includes a record of the
				eligible person's decisions made during planning and the resource information
				needed for implementation and maintenance of the plan that has been reviewed
				and approved by the SWCD.
(10)
				Resource management system--A combination of conservation practices and
				resource management activities for the treatment of all identified resource
				concerns for soil, water, air, plants, animals, and humans that meets or
				exceeds the quality criteria in the Natural Resource Conservation Service's
				Field Office Technical Guide for resource sustainability.
(11) Soil and water conservation district,
				herein referred to as SWCD--A government subdivision of this state and a public
				body corporate and politic, organized pursuant to Chapter
				201 of the
				Agriculture Code.
(12) State
				Board--The State Soil and Water Conservation Board created under the
				Agriculture Code, Chapter 201.
(13)
				Technical service provider--An individual, entity, or public agency certified
				by the NRCS State Conservationist and placed on an approved list to provide
				technical services.
(14) Texas
				Commission on Environmental Quality--The state agency created under Title 2,
				Subtitle A, Chapter 5 of the Texas Water Code (formerly the Texas Natural
				Resource Conservation Commission).