§3804 Permits to Operate Garbage Treatment Facility

Summary

If you want a permit to run a plant that treats garbage to feed pigs, you must apply to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture or to your State’s main agriculture or animal health official if your State has an agreement with the Secretary or is the main enforcer. You must give the information the Secretary requires. The plant must follow the Secretary’s rules to stop the spread of animal diseases, and it must be built so pigs cannot reach untreated garbage or anything that touched it. If the Secretary finds, after notice and a hearing on the record, that a permit holder broke the rules, the Secretary can order them to stop the violations, and can suspend or cancel the permit. A person affected by such an order can ask the U.S. court of appeals to review it within 60 days; the court will review the record and may block or set aside the order. A permit is automatically revoked when the person’s second conviction under the law becomes final.