266.48  Cost-share program for livestock odor mitigation research efforts.
  1.  a.  Iowa state university, in cooperation with the department of agriculture and land stewardship and the department of natural resources, shall establish a cost-share program for the livestock odor mitigation research efforts as established in sections 266.43 through 266.45 that maximizes participation in the livestock mitigation research efforts so as to accomplish the purposes in section 266.42, subsection 1.
  b.  The cost-share program shall allow for monetary contributions from livestock producers and other persons with an interest in livestock production. In addition, a livestock producer participating in a livestock odor mitigation research effort as provided in sections 266.43 through 266.45 shall provide in-kind contributions to participate in a research effort which may include but are not limited to furnishing the livestock producer’s own labor, construction equipment, electricity and other utility costs, insurance, real property tax payments, and basic construction materials that may be reused or continued to be used by the livestock producer after the completion of the research effort.
  2.  This section does not apply to a livestock producer who is required to contribute one hundred percent of the total costs of conducting a research project.
2008 Acts, ch 1174, §9, 13
Implementation of §266.40 – 266.49 is contingent upon receipt of sufficient funds by Iowa state university; 2008 Acts, ch 1174, §13