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Manure application setbacks and buffers - 3 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 507

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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.

        2005 Amendment.  Section 5(1) of Act 38 provided that section
     507 shall take effect in 180 days.

Last modified: November 27, 2007