The
Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development administers licenses to all
commercial businesses that render dead animals/restaurant grease, obtain and
transports dead animals/restaurant grease, produces animal feed from dead
animals, or collects dead animals/restaurant grease destined for animal
feed/rendering.
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Applications for these tasks are submitted and paid for online through
the Michigan Business One Stop
portal.
A. NAME OF PERMIT OR APPROVAL:
Disposal or Transporting of Dead Animals License (Also
known as a renderer) (Form AH-062).
B. STATUTORY AUTHORITY:
Bodies of Dead
Animals, 1982 PA 239, as amended
C. APPLICABLE REGULATION:
Regulations
for 1982 PA 239, as amended, Bodies of Dead Animals
D. SUMMARY OF PERMIT/APPROVAL PROCESS:
1.
Applicability (activities that require the permit)
You will need to obtain a Disposer or Transporting of Dead Animal License if
you will be operating a rendering plant, an animal food manufacturing plant, a
transfer station for dead animals, or obtaining and transporting dead animals (eg. Dead Animal Dealer). Dead
Animals refers to restaurant grease as well as dead bodies, materials from dead
animal bodies, or parts of dead animal bodies. Under law, "animal"
includes mollusks, crustaceans, and vertebrates other than humans.
A Transfer Station is an establishment for the collection of dead animals.
These animals are typically collected and taken to an animal food manufacturing
plant, rendering plant, or possibly another transfer station.
An Animal Food Manufacturing Plant is an establishment at which animal or
pet food is produced through the slaughtering, boning, grinding, cooking,
canning or freezing of dead animals.
A Rendering Plant is an establishment for the reduction by cooking or
processing of dead animals to tallow and meat scrap, cracklings or other items
unfit for human consumption.
A Dead Animal Dealer is an individual that, for business purposes, procures
and transports dead animals to or from a: transfer station for dead animals,
animal food manufacturing plant, and/or rendering plant. You must also obtain a
vehicle license for each vehicle which will used to transport dead animals.
You do not need a Disposal or Transporting of Dead Animals License if you:
- are
a restaurant grease dealer that possesses a liquid industrial waste permit
with the Department of Environmental Quality.
- a
landfill that possesses a solid waste disposal area operating license with
the Department of Natural Resources.
- a
person licensed as a commercial feed manufacturer with the Michigan
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development producing only feed with denatured/decharacterized dead animals.
- transport dead animals to:
-a laboratory for diagnosis. -a state and locally
approved incinerator. -a licensed facility (i.e. rendering
plant, animal feed plant, transfer station) if you are the owner of the dead aninmal when the animal dies.
- transport
dead animals released by an authorized meat inspection personnel for
educational or research purposes.
- transport
hoofs, horns, hides, or other any other dead animal or part of dead animal
that is not fit for human consumption.
- transport
dead animals used in making pharmeceutical, organotherapeutic, or tecchnical
products.
2.
Pre-Application Requirements
3.
Application Submission Requirements
The application must be completed in its entirety to include:
- Business name, address, and
phone number.
- Business mailing address (if
different from the business address).
- Type of ownership (i.e.
corporation, sole ownership, partnership, LLC, etc).
- Name and address of the
corporation or the owner (if not a corporation).
- Federal Tax ID for the
business.
- The type of license desired
(i.e. Rendering Plant, Animal Feed Manufacturing Plant, Transfer Station,
Dead Animal Dealer, Vehicle(s)).
- Payment (Please indicate the
payment amount and method (i.e. check or money order) on the application.)
- Signature, printed name,
title of person signing (i.e owner, president,
etc), and date signed.
- Make of vehicle, VIN number,
and license plate number and state for all vehicles used to transport dead
animals (If transporting dead animals).
- Destination(s) for dead
animals including type of facility(ies), facility name(s), address(es),
and phone numer (s) (If transporting dead
animals). If the destination(s) is/are located in another state, you
must include a current, certified copy of the license for each of these
facilities.
4.
Procedures and Time-Frame for Obtaining Permit or Approval
- Review the associated laws
and regulations (See Operational Requirements).
- If you are applying for a
Dead Animal Dealer License and you plan to transport dead animals to a
facility in another state (transfer station, rendering plant, or animal
feed manufacturing plant), obtain a certified copy of the license for each
facility in which you plan to transport dead animals that is located in
another state. You will need to submit these with your application.
- Review and complete the
application providing all of the information requested. If a section is
not applicable, please put a line through that section.
- Submit the completed
application, the certified copy of the dead animal facility's licenses (if
necessary-see above) along with a check or money order for the total fee,
payable to State of Michigan
to: Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Animal Industry Division, PO Box 30776,
Lansing, MI
48909-8276.
- After your application has
been approved and processed, a Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD)
employee will contact you to verify that your facility or vehicle is ready
for inspection. If the facility or vehicle is ready for inspection, a MDARD
inspector, typically a Field Veterinarian, will
then contact you to set-up and conduct a pre-licensing inspection of the
facility. Please note that a maximum of two pre-licensing inspections are
allowed per application per law.
- Upon completion of the
pre-licensing inspection, the inspection report is sent to the Lansing office for a
manager's review. Once the facility or vehicle has passed inspection and
managerial review, a Disposal or Transporting of Dead Animal License will
be issued and mailed. Please note that if there are problems found either
by the inspector or the manager, you will be given suggestions for
improvement as well as a re-inspection date.
- After receiving the license,
you may then conduct business as a Transfer Station, Rendering Plant, Dead
Animal Dealer, etc.
Typically it takes 4-8 weeks from the time of submission to receive a
license.
5.
Operational Requirements
License continuity requires Compliance with:
6.
Fees
- $375 for a Rendering Plant
- $100 for a Transfer Station
- $25 for each vehicle used to
transport dead animals
- $200 for an Animal Food
Manufacturing Plant
- $100 for a Dead Animal
Dealer
Please note that the application fee is non-refundable.
A Livestock Dealer License expires on September 30th of each year. Any
renewal applications received after October 31st will be charged a late fee of
$25.00 per license.
7.
Appeal Process
Per Bodies of Dead Animals
1982, PA 239, as amended, Section 13, the department shall notify an
applicant if denied, including the reason (deficiency) for the denial. The
department shall also offer the applicant the opportunity for a hearing.
8.
Public Input Opportunities
- Licensing status questions
and licensing process complaints should be directed to the Central
Licensing Unit of the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, 517 241-6666.
- Compliance information or
licensing enforcement complaints should be directed to the Disposal or
Transporting of Dead Animals Enforcement Program, Animal Industry
Division, 517 335-7188.
E. Contact Information:
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Creation/Revision Date:
09/01/2010
