 Board of Commissioners who may establish additional requirements regarding the proper and timely disposal of dead animals. The proposed use of a separate entity or company to collect and dispose of dead animals shall require written verification of the availability of and commitment to provide such services by the separate entity or company and written notice to the County immediately upon the cessation of such services by said entity or company and an indication of how dead animal disposal will occur in a timely manner.
B. For all categories of waste handling facility uses, regardless of size or type, all run-off, control ponds and basins, methods of waste disposal and related waste handling facilities and operational activities shall be engineered and developed to minimize air and ground and surface water pollution and shall be constructed and operated in accordance with the requirements established by the County Board of Commissioners, who may request review and recommendations by the applicable Natural Resource District, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality, their successor agencies, geologists, soil scientists, agronomist, biological engineers, civil engineers and any other entity with environmental protection expertise and shall have a permit from the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality if a permit is so required by said Department.
C. Any waste handling facility use which proposes to dispose of any waste through application of said waste on crop or other land shall indicate that the owners of such waste handling facility use shall have, either through ownership or lease of suitable terms, an adequate amount of such land to permit application of such waste based on the nutrient needs of the crops to be produced and avoid any build-up of nutrients or chemicals which can damage the production capacity of the land, result in runoff of such waste or chemicals into abutting property or into any stream or drainageway or in any way contaminate the environment. The County Board of Commissioners, in authorizing any waste handling facility use, may utilize recommendations of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Cooperative Extension Service and any other crop production experts in determining the maximum amount of waste to be placed on each acre of land to be used for such purposes, the timing of such waste placements, and the total amount of land necessary to distribute all waste, and shall establish such maximum per acre application limits and such minimum total land area, as conditions of such
authorization. A specific condition of application of land application of waste shall be that no liquid waste shall be applied to any land when the soils are water saturated or frozen. The County Board of Commissioners may require the owner / operator of such waste handling facility use to conduct, or allow to be conducted by a third party at the owner's / operator's expense, soil sampling and testing for build up of nutrients on all locations where waste is to be placed and may require the submission of the results of such soil sampling and testing to the County Board of Commissioners.
D. All locations which are used by any authorized waste handling facility use for stockpiling or composting of waste shall be subject to authorization by the County Board of Commissioners as part of the authorization of any waste handling facility use and such authorization may include the establishment of maximum amounts of waste which may be stockpiled, the methods and operation of any waste composting facility, and facilities to collect and properly digest or dispose of any waste contaminated runoff from any waste stockpiling or composting site.
E. Any waste handling facility use shall be located only in areas of the County which are not subject to flooding on a one hundred (100) year basis, and only in areas where it is determined by the County Board of Commissioners that the geology, soil permeability, depth to water table, drainage patterns and other natural environment characteristics
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