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40 less for animals other than bovine, or four hundred
41 thousand pounds five hundred or less for bovine fewer
42 animal units.
43 24. "Unformed manure storage structure" means a
44 covered or uncovered animal feeding operation
45 structure in which impoundment used to store manure is
46 stored, other than a formed manure storage structure,
47 which is includes an anaerobic lagoon, aerobic
48 structure, or earthen manure storage basin.
49 Sec. 8. Section 455B.161, Code 2001, is amended by
50 adding the following new subsections:
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1 NEW SUBSECTION. 6A. "Animal unit" means a unit of
2 measurement based upon the product of multiplying the
3 number of animals of each category by a special
4 equivalency factor as follows:
5 a. Slaughter or feeder cattle 1.000
6 b. Immature dairy cattle 1.000
7 c. Mature dairy cattle 1.400
8 d. Butcher or breeding swine weighing
9 more than fifty-five pounds 0.400
10 e. Swine weighing fifteen pounds or more
11 but not more than fifty-five pounds 0.100
12 f. Sheep or lambs 0.100
13 g. Horses 2.000
14 h. Turkeys 0.018
15 i. Broiler or layer chickens 0.010
16 NEW SUBSECTION. 6B. "Animal unit capacity" means
17 a measurement used to determine the maximum number of
18 animal units that may be maintained as part of an
19 animal feeding operation at any one time, including as
20 provided in sections 455B.161A and 455B.200B.
21 NEW SUBSECTION. 8A. "Commission" means the
22 environmental protection commission created pursuant
23 to section 455A.6.
24 NEW SUBSECTION. 18A. "Manure storage structure"
25 means a formed manure storage structure or an unformed
26 manure storage structure. A manure storage structure
27 does not include an egg washwater storage structure.
28 NEW SUBSECTION. 18B. "Public thoroughfare" means
29 a road, street, or bridge that is constructed or
30 maintained by the state or a political subdivision.
31 NEW SUBSECTION. 19A. "Qualified confinement
32 feeding operation" means a confinement feeding
33 operation having an animal unit capacity of any of the
34 following:
35 a. For a confinement feeding operation maintaining
36 animals other than swine as part of a farrowing and
37 gestating operation or farrow-to-finish operation or
38 cattle as part of a cattle operation, five thousand
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