A. The State Board of Agriculture shall provide the necessary forms and applications for any person desiring or required to register a poultry feeding operation or expanding operation.

B. The application to register to operate a new or previously unregistered poultry feeding operation or expanding operation shall contain, at a minimum, the following information:

1. Name and address of the owner and operator of the facility;

2. Name and address of the poultry feeding operation;

3. Number and type of poultry housed or confined;

4. Name and address of the integrator whose poultry will be raised by the poultry feeding operation;

5. A diagram or map and legal description showing geographical location of the facility on which the perimeters of the facility are designated, location of waters of the state, including, but not limited to, drainage from the facility, poultry waste storage facilities, and land-application sites owned or leased by the applicant or which the applicant has contracted with for the application of poultry waste;

6. A copy of the Nutrient Management Plan, or proof of application for such plan, Best Management Practices or any other plans authorized by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry;

7. A statement of ownership.

a.If the applicant is a corporation, the name and address of the corporation and the name and address of each officer and registered agent of the corporation shall be included in the application.

b.If the applicant is a partnership or other legal entity, the name and address of each partner and stockholder with an ownership interest of ten percent (10%) or more shall be included in the statement.

c.The information contained in the statement of ownership shall be public information and shall be available upon request from the Board;

8. The name and address of the person having day-to-day control of the operation, if such person is not the applicant and is acting as agent for the applicant;

9. An environmental history from the past three (3) years of any poultry feeding operation established and operated by the applicant or any other operation with common ownership in this state or any other state;

10. Environmental awards or citations received or pollution prevention or voluntary remediation efforts undertaken by the applicant; and

11. Any other information or records required by the Department for purposes of implementing the Oklahoma Registered Poultry Feeding Operations Act or rules promulgated pursuant thereto.

C. In addition to other penalties as may be imposed by law, any person who knowingly makes any false statement, representation, or certification in, omits material data from, or tampers with any application for registration shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be subject to a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) for each such violation.

D. The owner of a poultry feeding operation shall be responsible for sending written notification to the Department upon changing integrators.

E. For a transfer of registration to a new owner, the new owner shall register the operation pursuant to the rules of the Department.

F. 1. All operators of poultry feeding operations and poultry waste applicators shall attend educational courses on poultry waste handling. All such operators and applicators shall attend educational training on poultry waste management as provided by Oklahoma State University through the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service. All current and new operators and applicators shall receive the initial nine (9) hours of training in the first year and two (2) hours of continuing education every year until the operator or applicator has received a total of nineteen (19) hours of training. Any operator or applicator may attend more hours than is required, however, those hours shall not be carried forward. Upon receiving the nineteen (19) required hours, the operator or applicator shall be required to receive two (2) hours of continuing education every three (3) years. The Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service shall develop the educational training course to aid in certification. Curricula for the training course will include the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service Waste Management Facts series and record books or their current equivalent. Courses for poultry waste management shall include the following topics:

a.environmental process relevant to protecting water quality in poultry production,

b.basic handling systems to manage poultry waste from all types of poultry operations,

c.nutrient management, including sampling procedures, application rate determination, equipment calibration, and record-keeping systems,

d.relevant laws and rules applicable to poultry waste management in the State of Oklahoma, and

e.any other related subject as determined by Oklahoma State University in consultation with the Department.

2. At the completion of each course, the operator or applicator shall receive a certification verifying completion. The certificates shall be kept on site for five (5) years.

3. Failure to obtain the initial nine-hour training and any continuing education as provided in this subsection shall be deemed a violation of the Oklahoma Registered Poultry Feeding Operations Act for operators and the Oklahoma Poultry Waste Applicators Certification Act for applicators.

4. All operators or applicators shall meet the educational requirements of this section no later than December 31 of each year.

G. No integrator shall enter into any contract with an operator of a poultry feeding operation who is not in compliance with the education requirements of subsection F of this section.

Added by Laws 1998, c. 232, § 5, eff. July 1, 1998. Amended by Laws 2005, c. 412, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2005; Laws 2011, c. 55, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2012; Laws 2015, c. 313, § 4, eff. July 1, 2015; Laws 2016, c. 228, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.