For purposes of this part, all of the following shall apply:
1. Two or more confinement feeding operations are adjacent if all of the following apply:
a. An animal feeding operation structure which is part of one confinement feeding operation is located within the following distance from an animal feeding operation structure which is part of the other confinement feeding operation:
(1) One thousand two hundred fifty feet for all of the following:
(a) Confinement feeding operations having an animal weight capacity of less than one million two hundred fifty thousand pounds for animals other than bovine.
(b) Confinement feeding operations having an animal weight capacity of less than four million pounds for bovine.
(2) One thousand five hundred feet for all of the following:
(a) Confinement feeding operations having an animal weight capacity of one million two hundred fifty thousand pounds or more but less than two million pounds for animals other than swine kept in a farrow-to-finish operation or bovine.
(b) Confinement feeding operations having an animal weight capacity of one million two hundred fifty thousand pounds or more but less than two million five hundred thousand pounds for swine kept in a farrow-to-finish operation.
(c) Confinement feeding operations having an animal weight capacity of four million or more pounds but less than six million pounds for bovine.
(3) Two thousand five hundred feet for all of the following:
(a) Confinement feeding operations having an animal weight capacity of two million pounds or more for animals other than swine kept in a farrow-to-finish operation or bovine.
(b) Confinement feeding operations having an animal weight capacity of two million five hundred thousand pounds for swine kept in a farrow-to-finish operation.
(c) Confinement feeding operations having an animal weight capacity of six million or more pounds for bovine.
b. An animal feeding operation structure subject to the distance requirements of this subsection is constructed after March 20, 1996.
2. An animal feeding operation structure is "constructed" when any of the following occurs:
a. Excavation for a proposed animal feeding operation structure or proposed expansion of an existing animal feeding operation structure, including excavation for the footings of the animal feeding operation structure.
b. Forms for concrete are installed for a proposed animal feeding operation structure or the proposed expansion of an existing animal feeding operation structure.
c. Piping for the movement of manure is installed within or between animal feeding operation structures as proposed or proposed to be expanded.
98 Acts, ch 1209, §14, 53
Referred to in §455B.200A
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