Section 2

have been developed on a scale which allows implementation under economically and technically viable conditions, taking into consideration the cost and advantages, irrespective of whether or not the techniques are used or produced in Malaysia, as long as they are reasonably accessible to the owner of the pig farm;

have been found to be the most effective in achieving a high general level of protection of the environment; and

includes both the technology used and the way in which the application or installation is designed, built, operated and maintained;

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“BOD5” means bio-chemical oxygen demand, where BOD is determined after five days incubation at 200 C;

“COD” means chemical oxygen demand;

“Director” means the Director of the Environment Protection Department;

“Enactment” means the Environment Protection Enactment 2002;

“environmental enforcement officer” means any officer authorised in writing by the

Director under section 26 of the Environment;

“interim period” means the period allowed by the Director for the existing pig farm to discharge liquid waste into watercourses subject to the standard of treatment of the liquid waste as specified in the Fourth Schedule;

“existing pig farms” means pig farms established before the date of commencement of these Rules;

“liquid waste” means waste with an average dry matter content less than twenty percent by weight;

“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for environmental protection;

“parameter” means any of the factors shown in the Fourth Schedule;

“permit” means a permit issued by the Director to allow the discharge of liquid waste into watercourses during the interim period, or to allow the disposal of solid waste or sludge on land outside the pig farm;

“person” has the same meaning assigned to it by the Interpretation and General

Clauses Enactment 1963 [Enactment No. 34 of 1963];

“pig” means any pig of any age, sex or type;

“pig farm” means any area of land or premises used for pig farming and having a standing population of fifty (50) or more pigs, or an area of land or premises which has been licensed for pig farming by the authority having jurisdiction on livestock farming;

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“pig farming” means breeding, keeping, rearing and treatment of pigs including the treatment, storage, transportation and disposal of waste;

“pig farming area” means an area designated for an integrated pig farming activities including the slaughtering and processing of pigs;

“sites” means any structure, house, shed or any other enclosure used for keeping pigs;

“solid waste” means waste with an average dry matter content ranging from twenty to one hundred percent by weight;

“sludge” means sludge extracted or pumped out from the liquid waste storage facilities;

“TSS” means total suspended solids;

“waste” means faeces, urine, blood, carcass or body parts of pig and includes wasted feeds, water used for the washing, bathing or cleansing of pigs, or water or any liquid used for the flushing and cleansing of any pig farm;

“waste storage facilities” refers to an earthen, steel or concrete containment system, or any other appropriate system with or without a covering which is used for the storage and treatment of liquid or solid waste;

“waste treatment facilities” includes the waste separator equipment and sludge drying bed;

“watercourses” includes underground water, an aquifer, any river, stream, canal, channel of water, drain, waterfall, estuary, lagoon, swamp, marsh, reservoir, lake or any part of the sea abutting the foreshore or any other body of water, including water on wetlands;

“wetlands” means land which is either subject to inundation with saltwater and/or freshwater, or has a high water table, and includes areas of mangrove forests, brackish water forests, transitional forests, freshwater swamp forests and peat swamp forests.

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