ATCP 51.01(16)(e)(e) A non-farm business or workplace that is normally occupied, during at least 40 hours of each week of the year, by customers or employed workers.

ATCP 51.01(17)(17) “Karst feature” means an area or superficial geologic feature subject to bedrock dissolution so that it is likely to provide a conduit to groundwater. “Karst feature” may include caves, enlarged fractures, mine features, exposed bedrock surfaces, sinkholes, springs, seeps or swallets.

ATCP 51.01(18)(18) “Livestock” means domestic animals traditionally used in this state in the production of food, fiber or other animal products. “Livestock” includes cattle, swine, poultry, sheep and goats. “Livestock” does not include equine animals, bison, farm-raised deer, fish, captive game birds, ratites, camelids or mink.

ATCP 51.01(19)(19) “Livestock facility” means a feedlot, dairy farm or other operation where livestock are or will be fed, confined, maintained or stabled for a total of 45 days or more in any 12–month period. A “livestock facility” includes all of the tax parcels of land on which the facility is located, but does not include a pasture or winter grazing area. Related livestock facilities are collectively treated as a single “livestock facility” for purposes of this chapter, except that an operator may elect to treat a separate species facility as a separate “livestock facility.”

ATCP 51.01(20)(20) “Livestock structure” means a building or other structure used to house or feed livestock, to confine livestock for milking, to confine livestock for feeding other than grazing, to store livestock feed, or to collect or store waste generated at a livestock facility. “Livestock structure” includes a barn, milking parlor, feed storage facility, feeding facility, animal lot or waste storage facility. “Livestock structure” does not include a pasture or winter grazing area, a fence surrounding a pasture or winter grazing area, a livestock watering or feeding facility in a pasture or winter grazing area, or a machine shed or like facility that is not used for livestock.

ATCP 51.01(21)(21) “Local approval” means an approval, required by local ordinance, of a new or expanded livestock facility. “Local approval” includes a license, permit, special exception, conditional use permit or other form of local authorization. “Local approval” does not include any of the following:

ATCP 51.01(21)(a)(a) An approval required by a political subdivision within the scope of its authority under s. 59.692, 59.693, 60.627, 61.351, 61.354, 62.231, 62.234 or 87.30, Stats.

ATCP 51.01 NoteNote: See s. 93.90 (3) (a) 3., Stats. The statutes listed in par. (a) pertain to shoreland zoning, floodplain zoning, construction site erosion control and stormwater management.

ATCP 51.01(21)(b)(b) An approval required under a local building, electrical or plumbing code, if the standards for approval are consistent with standards established under the state building, electrical or plumbing code for that type of facility.

ATCP 51.01(22)(22) “Local ordinance” or “local code” means an ordinance enacted by a political subdivision.

ATCP 51.01(23)(23) “Manure” means excreta from livestock kept at a livestock facility. “Manure” includes livestock bedding, water, soil, hair, feathers, and other debris that becomes intermingled with livestock excreta in normal manure handling operations.

ATCP 51.01(24)(24) “Minor alteration” of a livestock structure means a repair or improvement in the construction of an existing livestock structure that does not result in a substantially altered livestock structure.

ATCP 51.01(25)(25) “Navigable waters” has the meaning given in s. 30.01 (4m), Stats.

ATCP 51.01(26)(26) “New livestock facility” means a livestock facility that will be used as a livestock facility for the first time, or for the first time in at least 5 years. “New livestock facility” does not include an expanded livestock facility if any portion of that facility has been used as a livestock facility in the preceding 5 years.

ATCP 51.01 NoteNote: This chapter applies to local approvals of new or expanded livestock facilities that will have 500 or more animal units (or will exceed a lower permit threshold incorporated in a local zoning ordinance prior to July 19, 2003). See s. ATCP 51.02.

ATCP 51.01(27)(27) “NRCS” means the natural resource conservation service of the United States department of agriculture.

ATCP 51.01(28)(28) “Operator” means a person who applies for or holds a local approval for a livestock facility.

ATCP 51.01(29)(29) “Pasture” means land on which livestock graze or otherwise seek feed in a manner that maintains the vegetative cover over all of the grazing or feeding area.

ATCP 51.01(30)(30) “Person” means an individual, corporation, partnership, cooperative, limited liability company, trust or other legal entity.