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House Journal: Page 657: Thursday, March 12, 1998

21     3.  Page 22, lines 6 and 7, by striking the word
22   "comments submitted" and inserting the following:
23   "submissions delivered".
24     4.  Page 22, line 11, by striking the word
25   "comments" and inserting the following:
26   "submissions".
27     5.  Page 24, by inserting before line 5 the
28   following:
29     "Sec. __.  NEW SECTION.  455B.200C  SITING BASED ON
30   RISK-BASED ANALYSIS.
31     1.  The department shall adopt rules establishing a
32   risk-based siting analysis according to
33   recommendations made to the department by a technical
34   advisory committee established pursuant to this
35   section.  The technical advisory committee shall
36   compile data and develop, review, and update the
37   siting analysis used to determine appropriate
38   locations to construct an animal feeding operation
39   structure associated with a confinement feeding
40   operation, including its orientation to other objects
41   or locations for which separation distances are
42   required pursuant to section 455B.162.  The siting
43   analysis shall provide a calculation of risks to the
44   natural environment and the public health, comfort,
45   and safety.  The analysis shall be created as a
46   computer model which shall account for topography,
47   surface water drainage characteristics, seasonal air
48   flow, suitability of the soils and the hydrology of
49   the site, the population density of the area, the
50   character of residential development in the area, and

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 1   factors related to land use planning.  The analysis
 2   shall be designed to allow the department or a county
 3   confinement feeding operation siting review board to
 4   determine the appropriateness of the siting based on
 5   degrees of risk to the natural environment or the use
 6   of property by neighbors to the confinement feeding
 7   operation, including the degree to which the
 8   establishment of a conservation practice as provided
 9   in section 455B.207 may mitigate the risk.  The
10   analysis shall be used to determine whether there is a
11   high, medium, or de minimus risk.
12     2.  The technical advisory committee shall be
13   composed of all of the following:
14     a.  The presidents of the university of Iowa, Iowa
15   state university, and the university of northern Iowa,
16   or their designees.
17     b.  The director of the Iowa department of public
18   health or a designee.
19     c.  The director of the soil conservation division
20   of the department of agriculture and land stewardship,

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