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House Journal: Page 1179: Monday, April 3, 1995

Koenigs of Mitchell offered the following amendment H-3596 filed
by him and moved its adoption:
H-3596
 1     Amend House File 519 as follows:
 2     1.  By striking page 1, line 12, through page 5,
 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.  "Construction fee" means the fee provided in
22   section 204.3.
23     5.  "Department" means the department of
24   agriculture and land stewardship.
25     6.  "Fund" means the manure storage indemnity fund
26   created in section 204.2.
27     7.  "Manure" means animal excreta or other commonly
28   associated wastes of animals, including but not
29   limited to bedding, litter, or feed losses.
30     8.  "Manure storage structure" means a structure
31   used to store manure as part of a confinement feeding
32   operation required to be constructed pursuant to a
33   permit issued by the department of natural resources
34   pursuant to section 455B.173.
35     9.  "Permittee" means a person who obtains a permit
36   for the construction of a confinement feeding
37   operation, if a manure storage structure is connected
38   to the confinement feeding operation.
39     Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  204.2  MANURE STORAGE
40   INDEMNITY FUND.
41     1.  A manure storage indemnity fund is created as a
42   separate fund in the state treasury under the control
43   of the department.  The general fund of the state is
44   not liable for claims presented against the fund.
45     2.  The fund consists of moneys from construction
46   fees and annual fees remitted by manure storage
47   permittees as provided in section 204.3; delinquency
48   penalties; sums collected on behalf of the fund by the

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