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Minnesota Do I Need to Register My Feedlot Pollution Control or Manure Storage Area? Agency Feedlot Program Registration Revised April 30, 2001 Minnesota Rules Chapter 7020 requires most For additional assistance in calculating owners of livestock operations and manure capacity for feedlots or manure storage areas storage areas to register with the Minnesota pleases contact the MPCA Customer Pollution Agency by January 1, 2002. Assistance Center at 651/297-2274. A. If your feedlot is located outside of Owners of the following facilities are shoreland and the number of animals that required to register with the MPCA or you intend to have exceeds one of the delegated county: following you must register:40 dairy cows, Owners who are • A livestock operation capable of holding 50 50 beef cows,50 horses, 150 finishing pigs, registered and who or more animal units or a manure storage 125 sows, 1,500 chickens,turkeys or ducks. have less than 300 area capable of holding the manure B. If your feedlot is located within shoreland animal units are produced by 50 or more animal units. and the number of animals that you intend eligible to enroll in • A livestock operation capable of holding to have exceeds one of the following you the 2005/2010 open- 10 or more animal units or a manure must register: 8 dairy cows, 10 beef cows, lot agreement. For storage area capable of holding the manure 10 horses,30 finishing pigs,25 sows,300 more information produced by 10 or more animal units that chickens,turkeys or ducks. about the agreement, is located within shoreland. contact your area MPCA office listed Who does not need to register? below. Determining Shoreland: Shoreland refers • Pastures: Livestock operations that are to land area that is 1,000 feet or less from a primarily pasture operations do not need to lake or 300 feet or less from a river or stream. register. A pasture operation is where MPCA Area Offices: Some ponds and wetlands are also classified as livestock are maintained on pastures year Rochester area: shoreland(1,000-foot standard applies)but round and building or open lots are not 507/285-7343 water bodies of this type that are classified as used for feeding and/or shelter. Mankato area: shoreland are typically greater than 25 acres in • Owners of livestock operations that are 507/389-5977 size. For altered watercourses, such as streams listed on county Level II feedlot Marshall area: 507/537-7146 that have been ditched out or straightened,the inventories that have been submitted to the Willmar area: 300-foot shoreland standard may apply. agency—the inventory registers you. 320/214-3786 County and city zoning ordinances contain a • Owners of livestock operations that apply Detroit Lakes area: specific list of waters that have a shoreland to the agency and/or to county offices for a 218/847-1519 designation. Brainerd area: permit after the effective date of this rule 218/828-2492 and before January 1, 2002—the Duluth area: Determining Capacity: Capacity means the application registers you. 218/723-4660 maximum number of animals that you intend • Owners of livestock facilities that are Metro area: to havestandin at the facilit 651/296-6300 ( g herd size) Y at closed and have not contained or Toll-Free Number: any given time in the next four years. Items A maintained livestock since January 1, 1997 800/657-3864 and B below convert number of animals to are not required to register. If the owner Feedlot Service Center: animal units for the most common animal decides to use the facility in the future,the 877/333-3508 species and tell you if you have to register. owner must register at that time. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, 520 Lafayette Road North, St. Paul, Minnesota 55155-4194 wq-f4-02 (612)296-6300,toll-free(800)657-3864,TDD(612)282-5332 This material can be made available in alternative formats for people with disabilities. ' Printed on recycled paper containing at least 20 percent fibers from paper recycled by consumers.