Water quality.

On November 13, 1997 the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Approved regulation R.61-43, Standards for the Permitting of Agricultural Animal Facilities. The State Legislature approved these standards on June 26,1998. The primary purpose listed for setting these standards is “To establish standards for the growing or confining of swine, processing of swine manure and other swine by-products, and land application of swine manure and other swine by-products in such a manner as to protect the environment, and the health and welfare of citizens of the State from pollutants generated by this process” (100.10.A1).