2017 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 11 - AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND OTHER ANIMALS
CHAPTER 39 - LIVESTOCK FEEDLOT OPERATIONS
SECTION 11-39-103 - Compliance with rules; applicability thereof; compliance schedule; exception.
11-39-103. Compliance with rules; applicability thereof; compliance schedule; exception.
(a) A person who operates a feedlot shall comply with applicable rules of the department in accordance with the provisions of this section. A person complies with this section as a matter of law where no rule of the department exists.
(b) A rule of the department in effect on June 1, 1977 applies to a feedlot with an established date of operation prior to June 1, 1977.
(c) A rule of the department applies to a feedlot with an established date of operation subsequent to the effective date of the rule.
(d) A rule of the department adopted after June 1, 1977 does not apply to a feedlot holding any department of environmental quality permit and having an established date of operation prior to the effective date of the rule until either the expiration of the term of the permit in effect on the effective date of the rule, or twenty (20) years from the established date of operation of the feedlot, whichever time period is greater.
(e) A rule of the department adopted after June 1, 1977 does not apply to a feedlot not previously required to hold a department of environmental quality permit and having an established date of operation prior to the effective date of the rule for either a period of twenty (20) years from the established date of operation of the feedlot or five (5) years from the effective date of the rule, whichever time period is greater.
(f) To achieve compliance with applicable rules the department shall issue an appropriate compliance schedule, and no other provision in this act shall be deemed to empower the department to make any rule.
(g) This section does not apply to limit rules required for delegation of the national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act [Clean Water Act], title 33, United States Code, chapter 26, as amended, and 40 Code of Federal Regulations, part 124.
