A bill for an act relating to animal feeding operations by providing for certain air and water quality regulations, including when two or more related confinement feeding operations are deemed to be a single operation, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions.

Summary

The bill changes Iowa law so that two or more confined animal feeding facilities that share ownership, are close together, or use common manure systems are treated as one operation. It tells how to calculate the total animal capacity for such combined facilities and limits any expansion unless the new structures meet distance requirements. The goal is to improve oversight of air and water impacts from large feeding operations.

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