Bill Text: NY A03750 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates the concentrated animal feeding operation board to study nutrient management and exchange, and to collect and study data on nutrient management systems on certain farms in the state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to agriculture [A03750 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A03750-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3750 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 27, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to estab- lishing a concentrated animal feeding operation board THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new 2 article 26-C to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 26-C 4 CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION BOARD 5 SECTION 420. CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION BOARD. 6 S 420. CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION BOARD. 1. THERE IS HEREBY 7 CREATED THE CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION BOARD. THE BOARD SHALL 8 CONSIST OF SEVEN MEMBERS. THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD SHALL BE APPOINTED BY 9 THE COMMISSIONER AS FOLLOWS: ONE UPON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE COMMIS- 10 SIONER OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, ONE UPON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE 11 DEAN OF THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES, 12 AND FIVE MEMBERS SHALL BE PRIVATE STAKEHOLDERS REPRESENTING THE INTER- 13 ESTS OF CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION REGULATED FARM OWNERS, 14 NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT PLANNERS OR SPECIALISTS, AND MEMBERS OF THE ENVIRON- 15 MENTAL COMMUNITY. A CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR OF SUCH BOARD SHALL BE ELECTED 16 BY A MAJORITY VOTE OF THE MEMBERS. THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD SHALL 17 RECEIVE NO COMPENSATION FOR THEIR SERVICES AS MEMBERS BUT SHALL BE 18 ALLOWED THEIR ACTUAL AND NECESSARY EXPENSES INCURRED BY THEM IN THE 19 PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE. 20 2. THE BOARD, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT, THE DEPARTMENT OF 21 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION AND THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF AGRICUL- 22 TURE AND LIFE SCIENCES, SHALL COLLECT DATA AND STUDY NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT 23 SYSTEMS ON FARMS WITH BETWEEN THREE HUNDRED AND NINE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE 24 ANIMAL UNITS (AU), AND WHICH ARE CONSIDERED CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING 25 OPERATION FARMS UNDER GENERAL PERMIT GP-99-01. THE STUDY SHALL MEASURE EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07485-01-1 A. 3750 2 1 BOTH THE NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES OF THE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND 2 THE ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF THE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND OPERATIONS. THE 3 EFFECTIVENESS OF THE NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SHALL BE MEASURED BY THE 4 NUTRIENT UPTAKE IN THE SOLID PORTION OF MANURE SOLIDS, THE NUTRIENT 5 LEVELS IN THE LIQUID PORTION AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CREATING A CLEAN 6 WATER DISCHARGE. THE ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF THE NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT 7 SYSTEM SHALL BE MEASURED BY THE COST OF INSTALLATION, THE COST OF 8 MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION, AND THE USEFULNESS OF THE SOLID AND LIQUID 9 PORTIONS PRODUCED IN THE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. EACH NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT 10 SYSTEM SHALL BE STUDIED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ABILITY TO 11 EFFECTIVELY MONITOR THE NUTRIENTS IN THE SYSTEM AND THE WATER QUALITY IN 12 THE SYSTEM. 13 THE BOARD SHALL ALSO WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY 14 TURFGRASS DEPARTMENT AND THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY URBAN INTEGRATED PEST 15 MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TO COLLECT DATA ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE NUTRIENT 16 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO DEMONSTRATE A NUTRIENT EXCHANGE OF THE SOLID 17 PORTION OF THE NUTRIENTS TO BE USED AS A SOIL CONDITIONER. FOR PURPOSES 18 OF THIS SECTION, A "NUTRIENT EXCHANGE" IS DEFINED AS THE USE OF THE 19 SOLID PORTION OF NUTRIENTS FOR A NON-AGRICULTURAL USE AS A SOIL CONDI- 20 TIONER. THE SOLIDS SHALL BE MEASURED FOR EFFECTIVENESS AND ECONOMIC 21 VIABILITY ON TURF AREAS AS A SOIL CONDITIONER. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE 22 SOLIDS SHALL BE MEASURED FOR GROWTH POTENTIAL, NUTRIENT LEACHING PROPER- 23 TIES, DISEASE SUPPRESSION AND THATCH DECOMPOSITION. THE ECONOMIC VIABIL- 24 ITY OF THE SOLIDS AS A SOIL CONDITIONER SHALL BE MEASURED BY PER CUBIC 25 YARD COST AND FREIGHT COST. 26 3. THE BOARD SHALL APPOINT A NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST TO ASSIST 27 CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FARMING OPERATION REGULATED FARMS THROUGHOUT THE 28 STATE WITH THE COMPLIANCE WITH THE CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FARMING OPERATION 29 REGULATIONS. THE NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST SHALL ASSIST CONCEN- 30 TRATED ANIMAL FARMING OPERATION FARMS WITH UNDERSTANDING AND CHOOSING 31 NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT OPTIONS THAT ARE EFFECTIVE AND ECONOMICALLY VIABLE. 32 4. THE BOARD SHALL PREPARE AND SUBMIT A REPORT OF THE RESULTS OF THE 33 STUDY CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION TO THE GOVERNOR AND THE LEGIS- 34 LATURE NO LATER THAN ONE YEAR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ARTICLE. 35 S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 36 have become a law.