Fig. 3. Confined animal feedlots registered with the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources as required by the North Carolina .0200 Rules for Waste Not Discharged to Surface Waters. Animal operations with fewer than threshold populations (<100 for cattle and <250 for swine) and poultry operations with dry litter waste systems (see Fig. 4) are not included. Data are for 1998, 1 yr after the moratorium on new swine facilities enacted by the state legislature, and were obtained from the North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (http://cgia.cgia.state.nc.us/ncgdc/; verified 17 June 2005).