When used in this chapter: (1) "Best management practice" means a practice, technique or measure that is determined to be a reasonable precaution, a cost-effective and practicable means of preventing or reducing the discharge of pollutants from a point source or a nonpoint source to a level compatible with environmental goals, including water quality goals and standards. (2) "Dairy farm" means land owned or operated by a dairy farm and is a place or premises where one (1) or more milking cows, sheep or goats are kept, and from which all or a portion of the milk produced thereon is delivered, sold or offered for sale for human consumption. (3) "Dairy waste" means manure and process wastewater that may also contain bedding, spilled feed, compost, water or soil. It also includes wastes not particularly associated with manure, such as milking center or washing wastes, milk, feed leachate, or livestock carcasses or parts thereof. (4) "Dairy waste system" or "waste system" means the portion of a dairy farm where dairy waste is stored, collected or treated. This may include corrals, feeding areas, waste collection systems, waste conveyance systems, waste storage ponds, waste treatment lagoons and evaporative ponds. (5) "Department" means the Idaho department of agriculture. (6) "Director" means the director of the Idaho department of agriculture or his designee. (7) "Modification" or "modified" means structural changes and alterations to the dairy waste system that would require increased storage or containment capacity or such changes that would alter the function of the waste system. (8) "Noncompliance" means a practice or condition that: causes an unauthorized discharge; or, if left uncorrected, will cause an unauthorized discharge, or does not meet nutrient management standards and comply with a nutrient management plan. (9) "National pollutant discharge elimination system" (NPDES) means the point source permitting program established pursuant to section 402 of the federal clean water act. (10) "Nutrient management plan" means a plan prepared in conformance with the nutrient management standard or other equally protective standard for managing the amount, placement, form and timing of the land application of nutrients and soil amendments. (11) "Person" means any individual, association, partnership, firm, joint stock company, joint venture, trust, estate, political subdivision, public or private corporation, state or federal governmental department, agency or instrumentality, or any legal entity that is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. (12) "Process wastewater" means liquid containing dairy manure. (13) "Unauthorized discharge" means a discharge of dairy waste to state surface waters or ground waters, or beyond a dairy farm's property boundaries that does not meet the requirements of this chapter or ground water or surface water quality standards.
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