"NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   The legislature finds that a livestock nutrient management program is essential to protecting the quality of the waters of the state and ensuring a healthy and productive livestock industry. The legislature intends to shift the program for regulating water quality for confined animal feeding operations from the department of ecology to the department of agriculture. The department of agriculture shall establish and administer a fully functioning state program for concentrated animal feeding operations in the state and this program will be a single program for all livestock sectors. The department of agriculture shall have the authority to (1) carry out inspections to identify, control, and prevent the pollution of surface and underground waters of the state resulting from activities of dairies and concentrated animal feeding operations; (2) provide technical, financial, and educational assistance necessary to gain compliance to protect water quality; (3) with the assistance of the attorney general, bring any appropriate action at law or in equity to ensure compliance with all state and federal water pollution control laws for those dairies and concentrated animal feeding operations under permit; (4) adopt such rules as it deems necessary to administer the CAFO program, as well as rules to accommodate changes to federal regulations that are subsequently adopted by the United States environmental protection agency; and (5) administer the national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program for those dairy and concentrated animal feeding operations required to comply with national pollutant discharge elimination system standards under the federal clean water act, after receiving delegated authority by the environmental protection agency."