Volume 41 - Issue 10 - March 10, 2022
State of Kansas
Department of Health and Environment
Public Notice
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has reviewed an application from Nature’s Best Compost, Inc., to establish and operate a manure and source-separated waste composting facility. Cow manure will be brought in from Wilroads Feed Yard. Paunch waste from National Beef Packing Company will be brought to the site as well. These materials will be windrowed together to make a compost product.
Nature’s Best Compost, Inc. is a privately-owned company and is locating this composting operation 1.5 miles southwest of Fort Dodge in Ford County, Kansas at 11449 Lariat Way, Dodge City, KS 67801. They are locating within the permitted Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation of Wilroads Feed Yard, but a permit from the Bureau of Waste Management is required because they are bringing in paunch waste from off-site. The compost will be sold as farmland soil nutrients.
KDHE has reviewed the application from Nature’s Best Compost, Inc. and has found the application to be in conformance with state solid waste statutes and regulations. KDHE is providing public notice of this draft permit for the proposed composting facility described herein. A copy of the administrative record, which includes the draft permit page and all information regarding this permit action, is available for public review until April 8, 2022, during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, at the following location:
Ford County Clerk’s Office
100 Gunsmoke
Dodge City, KS 67801
Contact: Debbie Cox
620-227-4550
dcox@fordcounty.net
Additionally, the application form with primary permit information is available for public viewing on the KDHE Bureau of Waste Management website at https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/676/Solid-Waste-Public-Notices.
Anyone wishing to comment on the draft permit information should submit written statements postmarked no later than April 8, 2022, to Emery Wiens, at the following address:
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Bureau of Waste Management
Solid Waste Permits Section
1000 SW Jackson, Suite 320
Topeka, KS 66612
785-296-2751
Emery.Wiens@ks.gov
After consideration of all comments received, the director of the Division of Environment of KDHE will make a final decision on whether to issue the permit. Notice of the decision will be given to anyone who submitted written comments during the comment period and to those who requested notice of the final permit decision.
Janet Stanek
Acting Secretary
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