Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-20-53: License required for operation - Jurisdiction of

Department of Environmental Quality.

A. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a

concentrated animal feeding operation without first obtaining a

license from the State Board of Agriculture.

2. The owner or operator of an animal feeding operation not

classified as a concentrated animal feeding operation may apply for

a license if the owner or operator elects to come under the

provisions of the Oklahoma Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

Act and the rules of the State Board of Agriculture.

B. 1. The Department of Environmental Quality shall have

environmental jurisdiction over:

a. commercial manufacturers of fertilizers, grain and

feed products, and chemicals, and over manufacturing

of food and kindred products, tobacco, paper, lumber,

wood, textile mill and other agricultural products,

b. slaughterhouses, but not including feedlots at these

facilities, and

c. aquaculture and fish hatcheries, including, but not

limited to, discharges of pollutants and storm water

to waters of the state, surface impoundments and land

application of wastes and sludge, and other pollution

originating at these facilities.

2. Facilities storing grain, feed, seed, fertilizer, and

agricultural chemicals that are required by federal National

Pollutant Discharge Elimination System regulations to obtain a

permit for storm water discharges shall only be subject to the

jurisdiction of the Department of Environmental Quality with respect

to storm water discharges.