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House Journal: Page 1528: Monday, April 13, 1998

39   expanded, or diverted, if the water source as
40   constructed, expanded, or diverted is closer than five
41   hundred feet from an animal feeding operation
42   structure.
43     3.  However, no distance A separation is
distance
44   required between a in subsection 2 shall not apply
to
45   any of the following:
46     a.  A location or object and a farm pond or
47   privately owned lake, as defined in section 462A.2.
48     b.  A manure storage structure constructed with a
49   secondary containment barrier.  The department shall
50   adopt rules providing for the construction and use of

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 1   a secondary containment barrier, including design
 2   standards.
 3     4.  All distances between locations or objects
 4   shall be measured from their closest points, as
 5   provided by rules adopted by the department.
 6     2.  A person shall not dispose of manure closer to
 7   a designated area than provided in section 159.27.
 8     5.  A person shall not construct or expand an
 9   unformed manure storage structure within an
10   agricultural drainage well area as provided in section
11   455I.5.
12     Sec. 36.  NEW SECTION.  455B.205  MANURE STORAGE
13   STRUCTURES - CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS - INSPECTIONS.
14     1.  The department shall establish by rule
15   engineering standards for the construction of manure
16   storage structures required to be constructed pursuant
17   to a permit issued under section 455B.200A.
18     2.  The design standards for unformed manure
19   storage structures established by the department shall
20   account for special design characteristics of animal
21   feeding operations, including all of the following:
22     a.  The lining of the structure shall be
23   constructed with materials deemed suitable by the
24   department in order to minimize seepage loss through
25   the lining's seal.
26     b.  The structure shall be constructed with
27   materials deemed suitable by the department in order
28   to control erosion on the structure's berm, side
29   slopes, and base.
30     c.  The structure shall be constructed to minimize
31   seepage into near-surface water sources.
32     d.  The top of the floor of the structure's liner
33   must be above the groundwater table as determined by
34   the department.  If the groundwater table is less than
35   two feet below the top of the liner's floor, the
36   structure shall be installed with a synthetic liner.
37   If the department allows an unformed manure storage
38   structure to be located at a site by permanently

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