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House Journal: Page 1174: Monday, April 3, 1995

 3   line 31, and inserting the following:
 4     "Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  204.1  DEFINITIONS.
 5     1.  "Animal unit" means a unit of measurement used
 6   to determine the animal capacity of an animal feeding
 7   operation, based upon the product of multiplying the
 8   number of animals of each species by the following:
 9	a.	Slaughter and feeder cattle	1.0
10	b.	Mature dairy cattle	1.4
11	c.	Butcher and breeding swine, over fifty-five pounds  0.4
12	d.	Sheep or lambs	0.1
13	e.	Horses	2.0
14	f.	Turkeys	0.018
15	g.	Broiler or layer chickens	0.01
16     2.  "Annual fee" means the fee provided in section
17   204.3.
18     3.  "Confinement feeding operation" means a
19   confinement feeding operation as defined in section
20   455B.161.
21     4.  "Department" means the department of
22   agriculture and land stewardship.
23     5.  "Fund" means the manure storage indemnity fund
24   created in section 204.2.
25     6.  "Manure" means animal excreta or other commonly
26   associated wastes of animals, including but not
27   limited to bedding, litter, or feed losses.
28     7.  "Manure storage structure" means a structure
29   used to store manure as part of a confinement feeding
30   operation required to be constructed pursuant to a
31   permit issued by the department of natural resources
32   pursuant to section 455B.173.
33     8.  "Permittee" means a person who obtains a permit
34   for the construction of a confinement feeding
35   operation, if a manure storage structure is connected
36   to the confinement feeding operation.
37     Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  204.2  MANURE STORAGE
38   INDEMNITY FUND.
39     1.  A manure storage indemnity fund is created as a
40   separate fund in the state treasury under the control
41   of the department.  The general fund of the state is
42   not liable for claims presented against the fund.
43     2.  The fund consists of moneys from annual fees
44   remitted by manure storage permittees as provided in
45   section 204.3; delinquency penalties; sums collected
46   on behalf of the fund by the department through legal
47   action or settlement; moneys required to be repaid to
48   the department by a county pursuant to this chapter;
49   civil penalties assessed and collected by the
50   department of natural resources pursuant to section

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 1   455B.191, against persons required to obtain a permit
 2   for the construction of a confinement feeding
 3   operation; moneys paid as a settlement involving an

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