{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-2-2-20-53","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-20-53","heading":"License required for operation - Jurisdiction of","body":"Department of Environmental Quality.\n\nA. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a\n\nconcentrated animal feeding operation without first obtaining a\n\nlicense from the State Board of Agriculture.\n\n2. The owner or operator of an animal feeding operation not\n\nclassified as a concentrated animal feeding operation may apply for\n\na license if the owner or operator elects to come under the\n\nprovisions of the Oklahoma Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations\n\nAct and the rules of the State Board of Agriculture.\n\nB. 1. The Department of Environmental Quality shall have\n\nenvironmental jurisdiction over:\n\na. commercial manufacturers of fertilizers, grain and\n\nfeed products, and chemicals, and over manufacturing\n\nof food and kindred products, tobacco, paper, lumber,\n\nwood, textile mill and other agricultural products,\n\nb. slaughterhouses, but not including feedlots at these\n\nfacilities, and\n\nc. aquaculture and fish hatcheries, including, but not\n\nlimited to, discharges of pollutants and storm water\n\nto waters of the state, surface impoundments and land\n\napplication of wastes and sludge, and other pollution\n\noriginating at these facilities.\n\n2. Facilities storing grain, feed, seed, fertilizer, and\n\nagricultural chemicals that are required by federal National\n\nPollutant Discharge Elimination System regulations to obtain a\n\npermit for storm water discharges shall only be subject to the\n\njurisdiction of the Department of Environmental Quality with respect\n\nto storm water discharges.","path":["OK Code","Title 2"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os2.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"6ec2aa193def1ee4f9fc941c2c610b5ac49d429c6a754f676f71c3fdcddc49e3","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-2-2-20-52","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-2-2-20-54"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}