If you operate a large CAFO, you have almost a full year before your annual report is due to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. But come April 1, 2009, you don’t want to have to rely on your memory. Record all your spring manure applications as they go on the field.

Your National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems (NPDES) permit refers to necessary record-keeping items as the “land application log”. Each permit has a summary of the items that need to be tracked on the back. If you move any manure off site—either by selling it or giving it away—you must maintain the “manifest” document on this manure.

A copy of the manifest form can be found at the DEQ Web site: http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3313_3682_3713-96774--,00.html.

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