House Journal: Page 1427: Friday, April 12, 2002
38 maintained as part of a swine farrowing and gestating
39 operation or farrow-to-finish operation, or cattle
40 maintained as part of a cattle operation.
41 (b) One thousand five hundred feet for a
42 confinement feeding operation having an animal unit
43 capacity of one thousand two hundred fifty or more but
44 less than two thousand animal units for swine
45 maintained as part of a swine farrowing and gestating
46 operation, two thousand seven hundred or more but less
47 than five thousand four hundred animal units for swine
48 maintained as part of a farrow-to-finish operation, or
49 four thousand or more but less than six thousand five
50 hundred animal units for cattle maintained as part of
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1 a cattle operation.
2 (3) (a) Two thousand five hundred feet for a
3 confinement feeding operation having an animal unit
4 capacity of five thousand or more animal units for
5 animals other than swine maintained as part of a swine
6 farrowing and gestating operation or farrow-to-finish
7 operation, or cattle maintained as part of a cattle
8 operation.
9 (b) Two thousand five hundred feet for a
10 confinement feeding operation having an animal unit
11 capacity of two thousand or more animal units for
12 swine maintained as part of a swine farrowing and
13 gestating operation, five thousand four hundred animal
14 units or more for swine maintained as part of a
15 farrow-to-finish operation, or six thousand five
16 hundred or more animal units for cattle maintained as
17 part of a cattle operation.
18 Sec. 10. Section 455B.161A, Code 2001, is amended
19 by adding the following new subsections:
20 NEW SUBSECTION. 3. In calculating the animal unit
21 capacity of a confinement feeding operation, the
22 animal unit capacity shall include the animal unit
23 capacity of all confinement feeding operation
24 buildings which are part of the confinement feeding
25 operation, unless a confinement feeding operation
26 building has been abandoned.
27 NEW SUBSECTION. 4. A confinement feeding
28 operation structure is abandoned if the confinement
29 feeding operation structure has been razed, removed
30 from the site of a confinement feeding operation,
31 filled in with earth, or converted to uses other than
32 a confinement feeding operation structure so that it
33 cannot be used as a confinement feeding operation
34 structure without significant reconstruction.
35 NEW SUBSECTION. 5. All distances between
36 locations of objects provided in this part shall be

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