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House Journal: Page 683: Thursday, March 12, 1998

14   mediation service shall conduct the meeting and
15   certify to the department of natural resources that
16   the meeting was conducted as required pursuant to this
17   section.
18     5.  The good neighbor portion of an application for
19   a permit for the construction of an animal feeding
20   operation or an amendment to the portion shall include
21   all of the following:
22     a.  Procedures to notify neighbors of events,
23   including the cleaning of structures or the disposal
24   of manure, that may cause special discomfort to
25   neighbors.
26     b.  A method to ensure that communication between
27   the animal feeding operation and neighbors is
28   maintained, including methods for neighbors to notify
29   an animal feeding operation when special occasions
30   occur such as weddings, holidays, parties, or
31   funerals.
32     c.  The establishment of a nonjudicial dispute
33   resolution forum for neighbors and an animal feeding
34   operation to informally reach solutions to matters of
35   concern affecting the parties.
36     d.  Methods to reduce impacts on the fair market
37   value of neighboring property due to the construction
38   or operation of an animal feeding operation structure,
39   which may include the purchase or lease of property
40   around an animal operation structure, or the payment
41   of compensation to neighboring property owners.
42     e.  The implementation of practices and the
43   installation of systems to ensure that animal diseases
44   originating from the operation do not contaminate
45   animals located on neighboring property.
46     f.  Practices and systems designed to reduce the
47   discomfort to neighbors arising from an animal feeding
48   operation.  The application may include practical and
49   inexpensive methods utilized by the operation to
50   reduce odor, including planting trees around animal

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 1   feeding operation structures and providing that open
 2   manure storage structures be covered with materials
 3   which inhibit odor, such as straw, foam pellets, or
 4   mats.
 5     6.  The Iowa cooperative extension service in
 6   agriculture and home economics at Iowa state
 7   university shall assist in carrying out the purpose of
 8   this section by developing a model good neighbor
 9   policy which may be used by animal feeding operations
10   in complying with this section.  The service shall
11   provide different versions of the policy based on
12   various possible situations.  In developing different
13   versions, the service shall consider the type and size

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