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14   mediation service for the duration of the contract.
15   The organization may, upon approval by the
16   coordinator, provide mediation services other than as
17   provided by law.  The farm mediation service is not a
18   state agency for the purposes of chapters 19A, 20, and
19   669.
20     Sec. ___.  Section 13.15, Code 1997, is amended to
21   read as follows:
22     13.15  RULES AND FORMS _ FEES.
23     1.  The farm mediation service shall recommend
24   rules to the farm assistance program coordinator.  The
25   coordinator shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A
26   to set the compensation of mediators and to implement
27   this subchapter and chapters 654A, 654B, and 654C, and
28   section 455B.205A.
29     2.  The rules shall provide for an hourly mediation
30   fee not to exceed fifty dollars for the borrower and
31   one hundred dollars for the creditor.  The hourly
32   mediation fee may be waived for any party
33   demonstrating financial hardship upon application to
34   the farm mediation service.
35     3.  The compensation of a mediator shall be no more
36   than twenty-five dollars per hour, and all parties
37   shall contribute an equal amount of the cost.
38   However, if a meeting is held under section 455B.205A,
39   the animal feeding operation shall pay the mediator
40   the costs of the mediator in conducting the meeting.
41     4.  The coordinator shall adopt voluntary mediation
42   application and mediation request forms.  The
43   coordinator shall adopt forms necessary to administer
44   section 455B.205A.
45     Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  13.17  GOOD NEIGHBOR
46   MEETINGS.
47     The farm assistance program coordinator, provided
48   in this subchapter, shall contract with the farm
49   mediation service to conduct meetings in order to
50   provide for a good neighbor policy relating to animal

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 1   feeding operations as provided in section 455B.205A.
 2   The meeting shall not be considered mediation under
 3   this subchapter or chapters 654A and 654B."
 4     2.  Page 20, by inserting after line 12 the
 5   following:
 6     "___.  The application for a construction permit
 7   shall include a section for a good neighbor policy as
 8   required pursuant to section 455B.205A, which the
 9   applicant is not required to complete unless the
10   applicant elects to be eligible for protection from
11   legal action as provided in section 657.11.  The
12   department shall file a permittee's amendments to the
13   good neighbor policy section with the application."

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