{"data":{"id":"us-id/idaho-code-67-6529c","jurisdiction":"us-id","citation":"Idaho Code § 67-6529C","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this act, the following definitions shall apply:\n(1) \"CAFO,\" also referred to as \"concentrated animal feeding operation\" or \"confined animal feeding operation,\" means, for those counties that have requested a site suitability determination, a CAFO as defined in the applicable ordinance of the county wherein the CAFO is located. If the requesting county has not defined CAFO in its ordinances, CAFO means a lot or facility where the following conditions are met:\n(a) Animals have been, are, or will be stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of ninety (90) consecutive days or more in any twelve-month period;\n(b) Crops, vegetation, forage growth or postharvest residues are not sustained in the normal growing season over any portion of the lot or facility; and\n(c) The lot or facility is designed to confine or actually does confine as many as or more than the numbers of animals specified in any of the following categories: seven hundred (700) mature dairy cows, whether milked or dry; one thousand (1,000) veal calves; one thousand (1,000) cattle other than mature dairy cows or veal calves; two thousand five hundred (2,500) swine each weighing fifty-five (55) pounds or more; ten thousand (10,000) swine each weighing less than fifty-five (55) pounds; five hundred (500) horses; ten thousand (10,000) sheep or lambs; or eighty-two thousand (82,000) chickens.\nTwo (2) or more concentrated animal feeding operations under common ownership are considered, for the purposes of this definition, to be a single animal feeding operation if they adjoin each other or if they use a common area or system for the disposal of wastes;\n(2) \"CAFO site advisory team\" shall mean representatives of the Idaho state department of agriculture, Idaho department of environmental quality and Idaho department of water resources who review a site proposed for a CAFO, determine environmental risks and submit a suitability determination to a county. The department of agriculture shall serve as the lead agency for the team;\n(3) \"Environmental risk\" shall mean that risk to the environment deemed posed by a proposed CAFO site, as determined and categorized by the CAFO site advisory team and set forth in the site advisory team’s suitability determination report;\n(4) \"Suitability determination\" shall mean that document created and submitted by the CAFO site advisory team after review and analysis of a proposed CAFO site that identifies the environmental risk categories related to a proposed CAFO site, describes the factors that contribute to the environmental risks and sets forth any possible mitigation of risk.","path":["TITLE 67 STATE GOVERNMENT AND STATE AFFAIRS","CHAPTER 65 LOCAL LAND USE PLANNING"],"source_url":"https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title67/t67ch65/sect67-6529c/","current_through":"2026 Legislative Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T11:24:21Z","sha256":"badf763cc6a2195ba3ac919e6a9f5179078bf722bdeacee7a7e487e3ff822535","source_id":"us-id","stale":false,"prev":"us-id/idaho-code-67-6529b","next":"us-id/idaho-code-67-6529d"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}