Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-8-41.16
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Environmental jurisdiction
Official statutory text
A. The Department of Environmental Quality shall have
environmental jurisdiction over:
1. Commercial manufacturers of fertilizers, grain and feed
products, and chemicals, and over manufacturing of food and kindred
products, tobacco, paper, lumber, wood, textile mill and other
agricultural products;
2. Slaughterhouses, but not including feedlots at these
facilities; and
3. Aquaculture and fish hatcheries,
including, but not limited to, discharges of pollutants and storm
water to waters of the state, surface impoundments and land
application of wastes and sludge, and other pollution originating at
these facilities.
B. Facilities which store grain, feed, seed, fertilizer, and
agricultural chemicals that are required by federal National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) regulations to obtain
a permit for storm water discharges shall only be subject to the
jurisdiction of the Department of Environmental Quality with respect
to such storm water discharges.
environmental jurisdiction over:
1. Commercial manufacturers of fertilizers, grain and feed
products, and chemicals, and over manufacturing of food and kindred
products, tobacco, paper, lumber, wood, textile mill and other
agricultural products;
2. Slaughterhouses, but not including feedlots at these
facilities; and
3. Aquaculture and fish hatcheries,
including, but not limited to, discharges of pollutants and storm
water to waters of the state, surface impoundments and land
application of wastes and sludge, and other pollution originating at
these facilities.
B. Facilities which store grain, feed, seed, fertilizer, and
agricultural chemicals that are required by federal National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) regulations to obtain
a permit for storm water discharges shall only be subject to the
jurisdiction of the Department of Environmental Quality with respect
to such storm water discharges.
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