§3804 Permits to Operate Garbage Treatment Facility

Summary

To get a permit to run a garbage treatment plant that feeds pigs, a person must apply to the Secretary or to the State’s chief agricultural or animal health official if the State has an agreement or primary responsibility. The applicant must give the information the Secretary requires. A permit will only be given if the plant follows the Secretary’s rules to prevent spreading animal disease and is built so pigs cannot reach untreated garbage or anything that touched it. If the Secretary finds, after notice and a hearing, that a permit holder broke the rules, the Secretary can order the person to stop, suspend the permit, or cancel it. A person affected by that order has 60 days to ask the U.S. court of appeals to review it. That court reviews the same record and can block, overturn, limit, or decide if the order is valid. A permit is automatically revoked when a second conviction under section 3806 is final.