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39 three hundred thirty-three or more animal units.
40 b. For a confinement feeding operation maintaining
41 swine as part of a farrowing and gestating operation,
42 two thousand five hundred or more animal units.
43 c. For a confinement feeding operation maintaining
44 swine as part of a swine farrow-to-finish operation,
45 five thousand four hundred or more animal units.
46 d. For a confinement feeding operation maintaining
47 cattle, eight thousand five hundred or more animal
48 units.
49 Sec. 9. Section 455B.161A, subsection 1, Code
50 2001, is amended by striking the subsection and
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1 inserting in lieu thereof the following:
2 1. Two or more animal feeding operations under
3 common ownership or management are deemed to be a
4 single animal feeding operation if they are adjacent
5 or utilize a common system for manure storage. For
6 purposes of determining whether two or more
7 confinement feeding operations are adjacent, all of
8 the following must apply:
9 a. At least one confinement feeding operation
10 structure must be constructed on or after March 21,
11 1996.
12 b. A confinement feeding operation structure which
13 is part of one confinement feeding operation is
14 separated by less than a minimum required distance
15 from a confinement feeding operation structure which
16 is part of the other confinement feeding operation.
17 The minimum required distance shall be as follows:
18 (1) (a) One thousand two hundred fifty feet for a
19 confinement feeding operation having an animal unit
20 capacity of less than three thousand animal units for
21 animals other than swine maintained as part of a swine
22 farrowing and gestating operation or farrow-to-finish
23 operation, or cattle maintained as part of a cattle
24 operation.
25 (b) One thousand two hundred fifty feet for a
26 confinement feeding operation having an animal unit
27 capacity of less than one thousand two hundred fifty
28 animal units for swine maintained as part of a
29 farrowing and gestating operation, less than two
30 thousand seven hundred animal units for swine
31 maintained as part of a farrow-to-finish operation, or
32 less than four thousand animal units for cattle
33 maintained as part of a cattle operation.
34 (2) (a) One thousand five hundred feet for a
35 confinement feeding operation having an animal unit
36 capacity of three thousand or more but less than five
37 thousand animal units for animals other than swine
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