ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

SENATE FILE 237 - Water Quality Protection Fund - Private Water Supply Systems - Deposit and Use of Permit Fees
SENATE FILE 343 - Disposal System Operation Permits - Cold Water Stream Designations - VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR
S.J.R. 5 - Nullification of Administrative Rule - Ammonia and Hydrogen Sulfide Ambient Air Standards
HOUSE FILE 516 - Petroleum Storage Tank Regulation

RELATED LEGISLATION

SENATE FILE 97 - Transportation and Transportation-Related Regulation

SEE TRANSPORTATION. This Act subjects farmers transporting Class 2 agricultural hazardous materials to rules implementing federal regulations for transportation of hazardous materials.

SENATE FILE 155 - Substantive Code Corrections

SEE STATE GOVERNMENT. This Act contains statutory corrections that include changes relating to the Iowa Pollution Control Works and Drinking Water Facilities Financing Program, the Office of Renewable Fuels and Coproducts, water quality regulations, and the regulation of well contractors.

SENATE FILE 392 - Animal Feeding Operations - Construction Standards

SEE AGRICULTURE. This Act amends provisions established under the Animal Agriculture Compliance Act by providing exceptions for the construction of manure storage structures on land such as karst terrain and 100-year floodplains otherwise prohibited by law.

SENATE FILE 396 - Animal Feeding Operations Animal Unit Capacity - Turkeys and Chickens

SEE AGRICULTURE. This Act amends provisions providing for regulations affecting confinement feeding operations based on their size by providing new equivalency factors for turkeys and chickens.

SENATE FILE 436 - Supplemental Appropriations - Environment First Fund

SEE APPROPRIATIONS. This Act appropriates moneys from the Cash Reserve Fund to the Environment First Fund for FY 2002-2003, and provides that any moneys not obligated in the Environment First Fund at the end of the fiscal year are to be transferred to the Cash Reserve Fund, except for unobligated moneys for soil conservation practices. The Act takes effect April 11, 2003.

SENATE FILE 453 - State and Local Government Financial and Regulatory Matters - Miscellaneous Provisions

SEE APPROPRIATIONS. This Act addresses state and local government financial and regulatory matters. Legislators referred to this legislation as the "Government Reinvention Bill" during debate and discussion. The Act includes a requirement for a study of Department of Natural Resources requirements and penalties applicable to cities and counties.

HOUSE FILE 380 - Manure Storage Indemnity Fund - Fees and Charges

SEE AGRICULTURE. This Act provides for the administration of funds controlled by the Department of Natural Resources for purposes related to animal agriculture.

HOUSE FILE 644 - Manure Application Requirements

SEE AGRICULTURE. This Act provides for the regulation of commercial manure services and commercial manure service representatives, including by providing for licensure and certification requirements, and the establishment and collection of related fees.

HOUSE FILE 671 - Taxation of Personal Property - Recycling Property

SEE TAXATION. This Act provides that recycling property for which an exemption from property tax is granted is expanded to include the recycling of waste wood products into new raw materials and products.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

SENATE FILE 237 - Water Quality Protection Fund - Private Water Supply Systems - Deposit and Use of Permit Fees (full text of bill)
BY COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT. This Act permits the Department of Natural Resources to collect permit fees from private water supply well contractors and deposit those fees into a new account called the Private Water Supply System Account established within the Water Quality Protection Fund already created in the State Treasury. The Act appropriates the moneys deposited in the Private Water Supply System Account to the department for the purpose of supporting programs established to protect private drinking water supplies.

SENATE FILE 343 - Disposal System Operation Permits - Cold Water Stream Designations - VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR (full text of bill) BY COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT. This bill would have provided that a publicly owned disposal system shall not be required to obtain or to be in compliance with amendments to the requirements of the operation permit for the disposal system, when such amendments are required by the rules of the Environmental Protection Commission in response to a change by the commission in the use designation of a cold water stream receiving the discharge of the disposal system, until the commission, by rule, adopts and publishes scientifically sound methods for the review of use designations of cold water streams in the state.

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 5 - Nullification of Administrative Rule - Ammonia and Hydrogen Sulfide Ambient Air Standards (full text of bill)
BY COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE. This Joint Resolution nullifies the amendments to 567 Iowa Administrative Code, Rule 28.1, adopted by the Environmental Protection Commissionof the Department of Natural Resources on April 21, 2003. The amendments strike language in the administrative rule that adopted ambient air quality standards based on certain national primary and secondary ambient air quality standards and adopt Iowa ambient air quality standards that consist of certain national ambient air quality standards and additional Iowa ambient air quality standards that regulate ammonia and hydrogen sulfide levels in the air. The effect of nullifying the amendments to this rule is to restore the current language in the rule.

The Joint Resolution also nullifies 567 Iowa Administrative Code, Rule 28.2, a new rule adopted by the Environmental Protection Commission on April 21, 2003, which adopts by reference the "Iowa Ambient Air Sampling Manual" for use in determining compliance with the ambient air quality standards the nullified amendments adopt.

The Joint Resolution takes effect April 30, 2003.

HOUSE FILE 516 - Petroleum Storage Tank Regulation (full text of bill)
BY COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. This Act relates to the composition and responsibilities of the Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Fund Board (UST Fund Board).

Effective June 30, 2014, the Act repeals Code Chapter 424 relating to the environmental protection charge on petroleum diminution.

The Act adds two owners or operators to the UST Fund Board membership, to be appointed by the Governor. One of the new members shall have been a petroleum systems insured through the Underground Storage Tank Insurance Fund or a successor and shall have been an insured through the Insurance Account of the Comprehensive Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Fund on or before October 26, 1990. The other member shall be self-insured. The Act exempts the two new members from an existing conflict-of-interest provision for public members serving on the UST Fund Board.

The Act requires the UST Fund Board to report quarterly to the Legislative Council and other specified members of the General Assembly regarding changes to the status of the program.

The Act allows the UST Fund Board to adopt administrative rules for the transfer of all or a portion of the liabilities of the UST Fund Board. The UST Fund Board, upon such transfer, shall not maintain any duty to reimburse claimants under Code Chapter 455G, the Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Fund Act, for those liabilities transferred.