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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 459.307, subsection 4, Code Supplement 1 2 2003, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 4. A person shall only construct a formed manure storage 1 4 structure on karst terrain or an area which drains into a 1 5 known sinkhole pursuant to upgraded construction design 1 6 standards, which must at least include upgraded standards for 1 7 concrete, necessary to ensure that the structure does not 1 8 pollute groundwater sources. Until the department adopts 1 9 rules providing upgraded construction design standards, the 1 10 person must install and operate a water pollution monitoring 1 11 system as part of the formed manure storage structure. 1 12 Sec. 2. Section 459.308, subsection 3, Code Supplement 1 13 2003, is amended to read as follows: 1 14 3. A person shall not construct an unformed manure storage 1 15 structure on karst terrain or on an area that drains into a 1 16 known sinkhole.However, a person may construct an unformed1 17manure storage structure, if there is a twenty-five-foot1 18vertical separation distance between the bottom of the1 19unformed manure storage structure and underlying limestone,1 20dolomite, or other soluble rock.1 21 Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of 1 22 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. 1 23 EXPLANATION 1 24 This bill amends provisions established under the Animal 1 25 Agriculture Compliance Act (Code chapter 459), which provides 1 26 for the regulation of animal feeding operations by the 1 27 department of natural resources. That chapter generally 1 28 includes provisions regulating where confinement feeding 1 29 operation structures may be constructed. 1 30 Code section 459.307 establishes construction design 1 31 standards for formed manure storage structures. A provision 1 32 of that section provides that a person may only construct a 1 33 formed manure storage structure on karst terrain or an area 1 34 which drains into a known sinkhole pursuant to upgraded 1 35 construction design standards. The bill provides that the 2 1 standards must include upgraded standards for concrete. It 2 2 also provides that until the department adopt rules for those 2 3 upgraded standards, a person constructing a structure within 2 4 the area must install monitoring wells. 2 5 Code section 459.308 prohibits the construction of an 2 6 unformed manure storage structure on karst terrain. The 2 7 section contains one exemption which provides that a person 2 8 may construct a structure on karst terrain if there is a 25- 2 9 foot separation distance between the bottom of the structure 2 10 and soluble rock. The bill eliminates the exception. 2 11 Under Code section 459.603, a person who violates 2 12 construction standards regulating water quality is subject to 2 13 a civil penalty of up to $5,000 for each day of the violation. 2 14 LSB 6093YH 80 2 15 da/gg/14.1
Text: HF02358 Text: HF02360 Text: HF02300 - HF02399 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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