Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 200-299 - Environmental Protection Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System › Chapter NR 258 - Meat Products › Section NR 258.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
The following definitions are applicable to terms used in
				  this chapter. Definitions of other terms and meanings of abbreviations are set
				  forth in ch. 205
(1) "Slaughterhouse"
				means a plant that slaughters animals and has as its main product fresh meat as
				whole, half or quarter carcasses or smaller meat cuts.
(2) "Complex slaughterhouse" means a
				slaughterhouse that accomplishes extensive byproduct processing, usually at
				least 3 of such operations as rendering, paunch and viscera handling, blood
				processing, hide processing, or hair processing.
(3) "Simple slaughterhouse" means a
				slaughterhouse which accomplishes very limited byproduct processing, if any,
				usually no more than 2 of such operations as rendering, paunch and viscera
				handling, blood processing, hide processing, or hair processing.
(4) "Packinghouse" means a plant that both
				slaughters animals and subsequently processes carcasses into cured, smoked,
				canned or other prepared meat products.
(5) "High-processing packinghouse" means a
				packinghouse which processes both animals slaughtered at the site and
				additional carcasses from outside sources.
(6) "Low-processing packinghouse" means a
				packinghouse that processes no more than the total animals killed at that
				plant, normally processing less than the total kill.
(7) "Small processor" means an operation that
				produces up to 6000 pounds per day of any type or combination of finished
				products.
(8) "Meat cutter" means
				an operation which fabricates, cuts, or otherwise produces fresh meat cuts and
				related finished products from livestock carcasses at rates greater than 6000
				pounds per day.
(9) "Sausage and
				luncheon meat processor" means an operation which cuts fresh meats, grinds,
				mixes, seasons, smokes, or otherwise produces finished products such as
				sausage, bologna, and luncheon meats at rates greater than 6000 pounds per
				day.
(10) "Ham processor" means an
				operation which manufactures hams alone or in combination with other finished
				products at rates greater than 6000 pounds per day.
(11) "Canned meat processor" means an
				operation which prepares and cans meats such as stew, sandwich spreads, or
				similar products alone or in combination with other finished products at rates
				greater than 6000 pounds per day.
(12) "Renderer" means an independent or
				off-site rendering operation conducted separate from a slaughterhouse,
				packinghouse, or poultry dressing or processing plant which manufactures at
				rates greater than 75,000 pounds per day meat meal, tankage, animal fats or
				oils, grease, and tallow, and may cure cattle hides, but excluding marine oils,
				fish meal, and fish oils.
(13)
				"LWK" means live weight killed and is the total weight of the total number of
				animals slaughtered during the time to which the effluent limitations apply,
				i.e., during any one day or any period of 30 consecutive days.
(14) "ELWK" means equivalent live weight
				killed and is the total weight of the total number of animals slaughtered at
				locations other than the slaughterhouse or packinghouse, which animals provide
				hides, blood viscera or renderable materials for processing at that
				slaughterhouse, in addition to those derived from animals slaughtered on
				site.
(15) "Oil and grease" means
				those components of process wastewater amenable to measurement by the methods
				approved for oil and grease listed in ch. NR 219.
Note: Pursuant to s.
				  299.11(4)
				  (c), Stats., sub. (15) is shown as amended
				  eff. 6-29-21 by CR 17-046. Prior to 6-29-21 it reads:
(15)
"Oil and grease" means those
				components of process wastewater amenable to measurement by the method
				described in "Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes," 1971, EPA,
				Analytical quality Control Laboratory, page 217. Copies of this publication are
				available for inspection at the office of the department of natural resources,
				the secretary of state's office, and the office of the legislative reference
				bureau, and may be obtained for personal use from the Superintendent of
				Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.,
				20460.