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House Amendment 3581

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  1  1    Amend House File 519 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 1, line 2, by inserting after the word
  1  3 "AREAS" the following: " &endash; ADOPTION OF RULES".
  1  4    #2.  Page 14, line 21, by inserting after the word
  1  5 "pending." the following:  "The department shall not
  1  6 issue a permit to a person under this subsection for
  1  7 five years after the date of the last offense
  1  8 committed by a person or animal feeding operation in
  1  9 which the person holds a controlling interest during
  1 10 which the person or operation was classified as a
  1 11 habitual offender under section 455B.191.  The
  1 12 department shall conduct an annual review of each
  1 13 confinement feeding operation which is a habitual
  1 14 offender and each confinement feeding operation in
  1 15 which a habitual offender holds a controlling
  1 16 interest.  The department shall notify persons
  1 17 classified as habitual offenders of their
  1 18 classification, additional restrictions imposed upon
  1 19 the persons pursuant to the classification, and
  1 20 special civil penalties that may be imposed upon the
  1 21 persons.  The notice shall be sent to the persons by
  1 22 certified mail."
  1 23    #3.  Page 14, by striking lines 24 through 32 and
  1 24 inserting the following:
  1 25    "NEW SUBSECTION.  7.  The department may impose a
  1 26 civil penalty upon a habitual offender which shall not
  1 27 exceed twenty-five thousand dollars for each day the
  1 28 offense continues.  A person shall be classified as a
  1 29 habitual offender, if the person has committed three
  1 30 or more offenses as described in this subsection prior
  1 31 to or after the effective date of this Act, and was
  1 32 subject to the assessment of a civil penalty or a
  1 33 court conviction, in the five years prior to the date
  1 34 of the latest offense, counting any offense committed
  1 35 by a confinement feeding operation in which the person
  1 36 holds a controlling interest.  A person shall be
  1 37 removed from the classification of habitual offender
  1 38 on the date on which the person and all animal feeding
  1 39 operations in which the person holds a controlling
  1 40 interest have committed less than three offenses
  1 41 described in this subsection for the prior five years.
  1 42 For purposes of counting offenses, a continuing and
  1 43 uninterrupted offense shall be considered as one
  1 44 offense.  Different types of offenses shall be counted
  1 45 as separate offenses regardless of whether the
  1 46 offenses were committed during the same period.  An
  1 47 offense must relate to one of the following:
  1 48    a.  The construction or operation of a confinement
  1 49 feeding operation structure or anaerobic lagoon which
  1 50 is part of a confinement feeding operation, or the
  2  1 installation or use of a related pollution control
  2  2 device or practice, for which the person must obtain a
  2  3 permit, in violation of this chapter, or rules adopted
  2  4 by the department, including the terms or conditions
  2  5 of the permit.
  2  6    b.  Intentionally making a false statement or
  2  7 misrepresenting information to the department as part
  2  8 of an application for a construction permit for a
  2  9 confinement feeding operation structure or anaerobic
  2 10 lagoon which is part of a confinement feeding
  2 11 operation, or the installation of a related pollution
  2 12 control device or practice for which the person must
  2 13 obtain a construction permit.
  2 14    c.  Failing to obtain a permit or approval by the
  2 15 department in violation of this chapter or
  2 16 departmental rule which requires a permit to construct
  2 17 or operate a confinement feeding operation or use a
  2 18 confinement feeding operation structure, anaerobic
  2 19 lagoon, or a pollution control device or practice
  2 20 which is part of a confinement feeding operation.
  2 21    d.  Operating a confinement feeding operation,
  2 22 including  a confinement feeding operation structure
  2 23 or anaerobic lagoon which is part of a confinement
  2 24 feeding operation, or the related pollution control
  2 25 device or practice, which causes pollution to the
  2 26 waters of the state, if the pollution was caused
  2 27 intentionally, or caused by a failure to take measures
  2 28 required to abate the pollution which resulted from an
  2 29 act of God.
  2 30    e.  Failing to submit a manure management plan as
  2 31 required pursuant to section 455B.203, or operating a
  2 32 confinement feeding operation without having a manure
  2 33 management plan approved by the department.
  2 34    This subsection shall not apply, unless the
  2 35 department of natural resources has previously
  2 36 notified the person of the person's classification as
  2 37 a habitual offender as provided in section 455B.173."
  2 38    #4.  Page 16, line 17, by inserting after the
  2 39 figure "17A." the following:  "A person classified as
  2 40 a habitual offender or a confinement feeding operation
  2 41 in which a habitual offender owns a controlling
  2 42 interest, pursuant to section 455B.191, must submit a
  2 43 manure management plan to the department on an annual
  2 44 basis, which must be approved by the department for
  2 45 the following year of operation."
  2 46    #5.  Page 17, line 25, by inserting after the word
  2 47 "plan." the following:  "The department shall
  2 48 regularly inspect a confinement feeding operation if
  2 49 the operation or a person holding a controlling
  2 50 interest in the operation is classified as a habitual
  3  1 offender pursuant to section 455B.191.  The department
  3  2 shall assess and the confinement feeding operation
  3  3 shall pay the actual costs of the inspection." 
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  3  7 TEIG of Hamilton
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  3 11 SUKUP of Franklin
  3 12 HF 519.313 76
  3 13 da/cf
     

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