House Journal: Page 1439: Friday, April 12, 2002
26 the department may require any of the following:
27 a. The installation of a related pollution control
28 device or practice, including but not limited to the
29 installation and operation of a hydrological water
30 pollution monitoring system for an exclusively earthen
31 unformed manure storage structure according to rules
32 which shall be adopted by the department.
33 b. The department's approval of the installation
34 of any proposed system to permanently lower the
35 groundwater table at a site as part of the
36 construction of an unformed manure storage structure,
37 as is necessary to ensure that the unformed manure
38 storage structure does not pollute groundwater
39 sources, including providing for standards as provided
40 in section 455B.205.
41 Sec. 29. Section 455B.200A, subsections 5 through
42 8, Code 2001, are amended by striking the subsections.
43 Sec. 30. Section 455B.200B, unnumbered paragraph
44 1, Code 2001, is amended to read as follows:
45 For purposes of this part subpart, all of the
46 following shall apply:
47 Sec. 31. Section 455B.200B, subsection 1, Code
48 2001, is amended by striking the subsection and
49 inserting in lieu thereof the following:
50 1. Two or more animal feeding operations under
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1 common ownership or management are deemed to be a
2 single animal feeding operation if they are adjacent
3 or utilize a common area or system for manure
4 disposal. In addition, for purposes of determining
5 whether two or more confinement feeding operations are
6 adjacent, all of the following must apply:
7 a. At least one confinement feeding operation
8 structure must be constructed on and after May 21,
9 1998.
10 b. A confinement feeding operation structure which
11 is part of one confinement feeding operation is
12 separated by less than a minimum required distance
13 from a confinement feeding operation structure which
14 is part of the other confinement feeding operation.
15 The minimum required distance shall be as follows:
16 (1) One thousand two hundred fifty feet for
17 confinement feeding operations having a combined
18 animal unit capacity of less than one thousand animal
19 units.
20 (2) Two thousand five hundred feet for confinement
21 feeding operations having a combined animal unit
22 capacity of one thousand animal units or more.
23 Sec. 32. Section 455B.200B, Code 2001, is amended
24 by adding the following new subsections:
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