S315 - North Carolina Farm Act of 2019-20. (SL 2020-18)

Overview: Section 11 of S.L. 2020-18 allows the Environmental Management Commission to issue or modify a permit to authorize the construction, operation, or expansion of an animal waste management system serving a swine farm that employs an anaerobic lagoon as the primary method of treatment and land application of waste by means of a sprayfield as the primary method of waste management if the permitting action does not result in an increase in the permitted capacity of the swine farm, as measured by the annual steady state live weight capacity of the swine farm. The system may also meet the performance standards for new animal waste management systems serving swine farms that were enacted in 2007.

This section became effective June 12, 2020.