455B.201  Minimum manure control.

1.  A confinement feeding operation shall retain all manure produced by the operation between periods of manure disposal. A confinement feeding operation shall not discharge manure directly into water of the state or into a tile line that discharges directly into water of the state.

2.  Manure from an animal feeding operation shall be disposed of in a manner which will not cause surface water or groundwater pollution. Disposal in accordance with the provisions of state law, including this chapter, rules adopted pursuant to the provisions of state law, including this chapter, guidelines adopted pursuant to this chapter, and section 455B.204A, shall be deemed as compliance with this requirement.

3.  The owner of the confinement feeding operation which discontinues the use of the operation shall remove all manure from related confinement feeding operation structures used to store manure, by a date specified in an order issued to the operation by the department, or six months following the date that the confinement feeding operation is discontinued, whichever is earlier.

Section History: Recent form

  95 Acts, ch 195, §24; 98 Acts, ch 1209, §28; 99 Acts, ch 114, § 57

Internal References

  Referred to in §455B.206


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