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Senate Amendment 5575

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend the amendment, S-5543, to House File 2494, as
  1  2 amended, passed, and reprinted by the House, as
  1  3 follows:
  1  4    #1.  Page 6, by inserting before line 29, the
  1  5 following:
  1  6    "Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  331.304B  CONFINEMENT
  1  7 FEEDING OPERATIONS – SITING ORDINANCE.
  1  8    1.  As used in this section, unless the context
  1  9 otherwise requires:
  1 10    a.  "Animal feeding operation structure" means the
  1 11 same as defined in section 455B.161.
  1 12    b.  "Animal weight capacity" means the same as
  1 13 defined in section 455B.161.
  1 14    c.  "Confinement feeding operation" means the same
  1 15 as defined in section 455B.161.
  1 16    d.  "Small animal feeding operation" means the same
  1 17 as defined in section 455B.161.
  1 18    2.  A county may adopt a confinement feeding
  1 19 operations siting ordinance pursuant to section
  1 20 331.302.  The purpose of the ordinance shall be to
  1 21 allow approval of the siting of a confinement feeding
  1 22 operation regardless of chapter 335.  The ordinance
  1 23 shall authorize a county board of supervisors to
  1 24 approve the site of the construction of a confinement
  1 25 feeding operation, including a related animal feeding
  1 26 operation structure, pursuant to a plan adopted by the
  1 27 county board of supervisors.  The ordinance shall
  1 28 provide for methods and procedures required for
  1 29 submission of proposals, review of proposals, and
  1 30 approval of a site.  The plan adopted under this
  1 31 section shall provide for all of the following:
  1 32    a.  The preservation and availability of
  1 33 agricultural land reserved for confinement feeding
  1 34 operations, including for the construction of
  1 35 confinement feeding operations and related animal
  1 36 feeding operation structures.
  1 37    b.  Encouraging efficient urban development
  1 38 patterns that do not burden agricultural land reserved
  1 39 under the plan for confinement feeding operations.
  1 40    c.  Preserving and protecting natural resources,
  1 41 including water sources and fragile environmental
  1 42 locations.
  1 43    d.  Lessening congestion and overcrowding of
  1 44 confinement feeding operations, especially near
  1 45 cities.
  1 46    3.  This section does not authorize a county board
  1 47 of supervisors to adopt an ordinance which applies to
  1 48 any of the following:
  1 49    a.  Standards or requirements relating to the
  1 50 design or construction of animal feeding operation
  2  1 structures, including requirements established under
  2  2 chapter 455B, including rules adopted by the
  2  3 department of natural resources under that chapter.
  2  4    b.  The siting of a small animal feeding
  2  5 operation."
  2  6    #2.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  2  7 
  2  8 
  2  9                               
  2 10 TOM VILSACK 
  2 11 MIKE CONNOLLY 
  2 12 ROBERT E. DVORSKY 
  2 13 PATRICIA HARPER 
  2 14 TOM FLYNN 
  2 15 STEVEN D. HANSEN 
  2 16 EUGENE S. FRAISE 
  2 17 PATRICK J. DELUHERY 
  2 18 JOHN P. KIBBIE 
  2 19 DICK L. DEARDEN 
  2 20 BILL FINK 
  2 21 ELAINE SZYMONIAK 
  2 22 MARY NEUHAUSER 
  2 23 JOHNIE HAMMOND 
  2 24 HF 2494.726 77
  2 25 da/sc/28
     

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