# Oklahoma Beef, Inc.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2003 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `99165`
- **Case Number:** 06-2003-2013
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Tim Stidham (complaint) (settlement)
## 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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