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Oklahoma Beef, Inc.

Administrative - Formal · FY2003 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · 99165

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Case Number
06-2003-2013
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
Multimedia
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Defendants (1)

Summary

Oklahoma Beef, Inc. (OKG010187), Stillwater, Oklahoma: At all times relevent to this Order, Respondent, Tim Stidham owned or operated a feed operation, located at S.E. 1/4 of Section 21, T 19 North, R 1 East lying south of State highway 51, in Payne County, Oklahoma, with a mailing address of 10908 W. Hwy 51-C, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74074. The facility is an �animal feeding operation� where animals are stabled or confined, and fed or maintained at the facility for a total of 45 days or more in any 12 month period; and, crops, vegetation forage growth, or post-harvest residues are not sustained in the normal growing season over any portion of the lot or facility. The facility stables 740 cattle for a total of 45 days or more in any 12 month period. Therefore, this facility constitutes a large �Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation� (CAFO). On October 1, 2002, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry conducted an on-site inspection of this facility, on behalf of EPA. The inspection reported prairie dog dens, ant mounds, and small willow trees growing in the waste lagoon�s berm. Physical characteristics weakening the integrate of the containment structure. Unsatisfactory to the permit�s requirements. This Order requires the facility to submit to EPA documentation of tree removal and repairs made to the berms.

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