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Update of National and State Programs Presently Underway to Curb Point and Nonpoint Sources of Water Pollution from Animal Production Facilities

Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460

Abstract

P.L. 92–500, The Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, has provided two mechanisms for the control of water pollution from animal production facilities. Point source controls require that confined animal production facilities apply for a NPDES permit in order to operate. Nonpoint source controls, as established by State and area-wide water quality management programs, are to be developed around the concept of "Best Management Practices."

Presently (7/26/77), 1,275 permits are administered by EPA or the States to control point source discharges from beef cattle, dairy cattle, hogs, sheep and lambs, turkeys, laying chickens, broiler chickens, horses, et cetera. In the nonpoint source area within the State and areawide 208 water quality management agencies, 30 areawide agencies in 19 States have recognized water quality problems resulting from animal production facilities (7/21/77). These agencies are to propose controls through "best management practices" for their respective animal production facility problems. By November, 1978 all Statewide 208 agencies are to have a completed water quality management plan which outlines the controls needed to curb water pollution from the priorities identified.