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Page 2 of 2 <br />Subject: SKS Compost Operation (39 -AA -0050) <br />° Hi Reinhard, <br />SKS Enterprises, an egg -laying chicken ranch, has an agricultural material notification tier permit to compost <br />chicken manure and wood shavings. We inspect them quarterly. Last week I was doing the inspection and found <br />that they had started to compost their dead chickens by grinding up the chickens and mixing with wood shavings <br />and placing in windrows. They depopulated one of the chicken houses of 120,000 chickens. The carcass <br />compost windrows are in a different building than the manure compost windrows. <br />Are facilities allowed to compost chicken carcasses with a notification tier permit or is a full solid waste facility <br />permit required? We are not sure that chicken carcasses are included in the definition of agricultural material <br />(T14 CCR 17852). Are there facilities in the state which are composting carcasses with a notification tier permit? <br />Thx, <br />Garrett Backus, REHS <br />San Joaquin County Environmental Health Department <br />304 E Weber Ave, 3rd floor <br />Stockton, CA 95202 <br />telephone: (209) 468-2986 <br />fax: (209) 468-8392 <br />email: gbackus@sjcehd.com <br />8/3/2007 <br />