§ 507. Manure application setbacks and buffers.
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§ 507. Manure application setbacks and buffers.
(a)General rule.-- Unless the commission establishes a stricter requirement by regulation, no concentrated animal operation or other agricultural operation receiving manure from a concentrated animal operation directly or indirectly through a broker or other person may mechanically land apply manure within 100 feet of surface water unless a vegetated buffer no less than 35 feet in width and meeting standards established by the Natural Resources Conservation Service is used to prevent manure runoff into the surface water.
(b)Definition.-- As used in this section, the term "surface water" means a perennial or intermittent stream with a defined bed and bank, a lake or a pond.
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Effective Date. Section 5(1) of Act 38 of 2005 provided that section 507 shall take effect in 180 days.
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