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Chapter 14 , residents and transients; prevent the spread of 14.12 COMPLIANCE WITH PERMIT disease; and promote the prosperity and general REQUIREMENTS. A person is in compliance j welfare of the citizens of Dane County. It is also with this ordinance if he or she follows the I j intended to provide for the administration and procedures of this ordinance, receives a permit from enforcement of this ordinance and to provide the zoning administrator before beginning activities 1 1 penalties for its violation. subject to regulation under this section, and complies { with the requirements of the permit. 14.05 APPLICABILITY. This ordinance applies to the entire geographical area of Dane County. 14.13 STANDARD FOR EARTHEN MANURE STORAGE FACILITIES. The standards for 14.06 _DEFINITIONS. As used in this ordinance, design and construction of earthen manure storage the following words and phrases have the meanings facilities are those in standard 425 of the Technical indicated: Guide. (1) Animal manure means livestock excreta and other materials such as bedding, water, soil, hair, 14.14 STANDARD FOR ANIMAL WASTE feathers, and other debris normally included in MANAGEMENT AND UTILIZATION. The animal waste handling operations. standards for management of manure facilities and (2) Applicant means any person who applies for a utilization of manure are those in standard 633 of the permit under this ordinance. Technical Guide. (3) Earthen manure storage facility means a facility constructed of earth dikes, or pits and ponds [14.15-14.20 reserved for future use.] used for temporary storage of animal waste. (4) Permit means the signed, written statement 14.21 PERMIT REQUIRED. No person may issued by the zoning administrator under this undertake an activity subject to this ordinance ordinance authorizing the applicant to construct, without obtaining a permit from the zoning { install, reconstruct, enlarge, or substantially alter administrator prior to beginning the proposed earthen manure storage facility,and to use or dispose activity. -' of waste from the facility. (5) Permittee means any person to whom a permit 14.22 EXCEPTION TO PERMIT is issued under this ordinance. REQUIREMENT. Emergency repairs to an !_ (6) Person means any individual, corporation, earthen manure storage facility, such as repairing a partnership, joint venture, agency, unincorporated broken pipe or equipment, leaking dikes, or the —1 association, municipal corporation, county, or state removal of stoppages, may be performed without a L,.J agency within Wisconsin,the federal government, or permit. If repairs will significantly alter the original any combination thereof. design and construction of the storage facility, a s1 (7) Technical Guide means the United States report shall be made to the zoning administrator for Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.) Soil determination as to whether a permit will be Conservation Service Technical Guide as adopted by required for any additional alteration or repair to the the Dane County Land Conservation Committee. facility. The zoning administrator shall consult with (8) Water pollution means contaminating or the land conservation committee staff. prior to rendering unclean or impure the ground or surface rendering a determination. waters of the state, or making the same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or 14.23 FEE. There shall be no fee for a permit recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal under this ordinance. or plant life. 14.24 EARTHEN MANURE STORAGE [14.07-14.10 reserved for future use.] FACILITY PLAN REQUIRED. Each application for a permit under this section shall include an 14.11 GENERAL REQUIREMENT. Any person earthen manure storage facility plan. The plan shall d who designs and constructs an earthen manure specify: storage facility or who employs another person to do (1) The number and kinds of animals for which the same, on land subject to this ordinance, shall be storage is provided. subject to the provisions of this ordinance. (2) A sketch of the facility and its location in relation to buildings within 250 feet and homes within 500 feet of the proposed facility. The sketch Page 64 1