IDEM’s Guidance Manual for Indiana’s Confined Feeding Program explains key requirements of the law and rules that govern livestock and poultry farms in Indiana.
Conservation Practice Standards for Confined Feeding Operations
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides conservation practice standards on subjects ranging from waste storage facilities and waste treatment lagoons to vegetated treatment areas and constructed wetlands.
- Waste Storage Facility - Code 313 [PDF]
- Critical Area Planting - Code 342 [PDF]
- Waste Treatment Lagoon - Code 359 [PDF]
- Closure of Waste Impoundments - Code 360 (November 2012) [PDF]
- Pond Sealing or Lining Compacted Soil Treatment - Code 520 [PDF]
- Pond Sealing or Lining Flexible Membrane - Code 521A [PDF]
- Pond Sealing or Lining Concrete - Code 522 [PDF]
- Nutrient Management - Code 590 [PDF]
- Waste Transfer - Code 634 [PDF]
- Vegetated Treatment Area - Code 635 [PDF]
- Constructed Wetland - Code 656 [PDF]
Conservation Practice Standards for Satellite Manure Storage Structures
- Waste Storage Facility - Code 313 [PDF]
- Pond Sealing or Lining Flexible Membrane - Code 521A [PDF]
- Pond Sealing or Lining Soil Dispersant Treatment - Code 521B [PDF]
- Pond Sealing or Lining Bentonite Treatment - Code 521C [PDF]
Construction Specifications
NRCS also provides construction specifications for concrete construction and earthfill.