IDEM - NPDES CAFO GENERAL PERMIT APPLICATION - MIDWEST PULLET FARMS
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PUBLIC NOTICE INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT NPDES CAFO GENERAL PERMIT APPLICATION - KOSCIUSKO COUNTY Farm ID#: 3089 Applicant: Midwest Pullet Farms, Inc., Robert L. Krouse-President Farm Location: 4854 South CR 1000 West Farm City: Mentone, Indiana 46539 Farm Location: Section 6, Township 31N, Range 5E
The above-named applicant submitted a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) general permit application to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM). The NPDES CAFO general permit application, a Notice of Intent (NOI), proposed to construct one caged pullet building with a manure belt conveyor system to transfer solid/dry manure to a proposed solid/dry manure storage facility from 286,254 pullets. This site currently has four existing and IDEM approved caged pullet confinement buildings. One existing building houses 236,208 pullets with a manure belt conveyor system which transfers solid/dry manure to an existing solid/dry manure storage facility. Two existing buildings each house 49,000 pullets in a building including a beneath cage shallow concrete manure storage pit. One existing building houses 28,000 pullets in a building including a beneath cage shallow concrete manure storage pit. The total capacity of this animal feeding operation will be 648,462 pullets (chickens other than laying-hens). The NPDES CAFO general permit NOI was submitted to comply with IC 13-18-10, 327 IAC 16, and 327 IAC 15-15.
In accordance with 327 IAC 15-15-5 and 327 IAC 15-15-8, this notice requests written comments be submitted to IDEM on the eligibility of the owner or operator submitting the NOI for a general permit.
An electronic copy of the application can be made available and an IDEM staff person is available to discuss the contents of the application with any interested party, by either telephone at (317) 234-6027, extension 4-1623, or by a visit to the office.
Written comments should be addressed to: Thomas F. Park, Jr., Ph.D. IDEM, Confined Feeding Permits Section, OLQ 100 North Senate Avenue MC 65-45, IGCN 1101 Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-2251 f14
