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Requiring a notice of structural failure involving a manure storage structure that is part of a confinement feeding operation, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions
Topics:Environment & natural resourcesLivestock & confinementsWater quality
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 31, 2019
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
BILL’S PROVISIONS. This bill requires the owner or operator of a confinement feeding operation to notify the department of natural resources (DNR) of any actual or probable immediate structural failure from an associated manure storage structure (structure). The failure may be the result of either the design or construction of the structure. The determination of a probable immediate structural failure must be based on factors established by DNR which may include an observation by the owner or operator or a report submitted to the owner or operator by a professional engineer.
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DNR is required to adopt rules that provide for notice procedures which may take into account factors that quantify the level of threat to water quality resulting from a discharge or an injury to or death of an animal maintained in an associated confinement building. BACKGROUND. The bill amends provisions in Code chapter 459 (“Animal Agriculture Compliance Act”) which in part regulates confinement feeding operations; meaning any area where certain agricultural animals are confined to totally roofed areas (most commonly buildings), if fed and maintained for 45 days or more in any 12-month period, and includes associated manure storage structures. Code chapter 459, subchapter III, regulates water quality, and includes requirements for the construction of a number of types of manure storage structures, including those made of durable materials such as concrete and steel (formed) and an impoundment including an anaerobic lagoon, aerobic structure, or earthen manure storage basin (unformed). 65).311) and is prohibited from discharging manure into waters of the state which includes surface waters or ground water sources. PENALTIES APPLICABLE.603).603). EFFECTIVE DATE. The bill, if enacted, would take effect upon enactment.