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Senate Amendment 5201

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  1  1    Amend Senate File 2037 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 1, by striking lines 1 through 28 and
  1  3 inserting the following:
  1  4    "Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  331.309  CONFINEMENT
  1  5 FEEDING OPERATIONS – SITING ORDINANCE.
  1  6    1.  As used in this section:
  1  7    a.  "Animal feeding operation structure" means the
  1  8 same as defined in section 455B.161.
  1  9    b.  "Animal weight capacity" means the same as
  1 10 defined in section 455B.161.
  1 11    c.  "Confinement feeding operation" means the same
  1 12 as defined in section 455B.161.
  1 13    2.  Notwithstanding section 335.2, a county may
  1 14 adopt a confinement feeding operations siting
  1 15 ordinance, pursuant to section 331.302.  The purpose
  1 16 of the ordinance shall be to provide authority to a
  1 17 county to approve the site of the construction or
  1 18 expansion of a confinement feeding operation,
  1 19 including confinement feeding operation buildings and
  1 20 related animal feeding operation structures in order
  1 21 to preserve and protect natural resources, including
  1 22 water sources and fragile environmental locations;
  1 23 lessen congestion and overcrowding of confinement
  1 24 feeding operations, especially near cities; and to
  1 25 protect the health and welfare of the public.  The
  1 26 ordinance shall provide for a method and procedure
  1 27 required to approve the site.  In administering the
  1 28 ordinance, the county shall establish a confinement
  1 29 feeding operations siting commission which shall
  1 30 review each proposal for the construction or expansion
  1 31 of a confinement feeding operation, and recommend to
  1 32 the county board of supervisors that the board approve
  1 33 or disapprove the proposal.  The board shall appoint
  1 34 five members of the commission.  A member shall not
  1 35 reside in a city.  At least three members shall be or
  1 36 have been actively engaged in animal agriculture.  A
  1 37 confinement feeding operations siting ordinance shall
  1 38 not apply to a confinement feeding operation, if
  1 39 either of the following apply:
  1 40    a.  Only bovine or poultry are confined in the
  1 41 confinement feeding operation.
  1 42    b.  The confinement feeding operation has an animal
  1 43 weight capacity of less than three hundred thousand
  1 44 pounds."
  1 45    #2.  Title page, line 2, by striking the words
  1 46 "county zoning" and inserting the following:
  1 47 "siting".
  1 48    #3.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  1 49 
  1 50 
  2  1                              
  2  2 EUGENE FRAISE
  2  3 BILL FINK
  2  4 EMIL J. HUSAK
  2  5 PATTY JUDGE
  2  6 JOHN P. KIBBIE
  2  7 MARY A. LUNDBY
  2  8 ANDY MCKEAN
  2  9 JOHN W. JENSEN
  2 10 TOM FLYNN
  2 11 ALBERT G. SORENSEN
  2 12 SF 2037.507 76
  2 13 da/jw
     

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