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Authorizing the governing board of a drainage or levee district to establish and maintain certain practices relating to soil and water conservation and water quality
Topics:AgricultureEnvironment & natural resourcesCities & countiesWater quality
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2022
- 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 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Boards that run drainage or levee districts would be allowed to help set up and take care of projects that protect water quality and prevent soil erosion. These projects must follow specific state plans designed to reduce nutrient runoff and protect Iowa's waterways. This change affects the local leaders who manage these districts and the land within them.1
Read the official explanation
This bill authorizes the governing board of a drainage or levee district to participate in establishing and maintaining a water quality practice, a soil and water conservation practice, or an erosion control practice within the district. A practice must be consistent with the Iowa nutrient reduction strategy as developed and updated by the department of agriculture and land stewardship, the department of natural resources, and the college of agriculture and life sciences at Iowa state university of science and technology in order to assess and reduce nutrients in this state’s watersheds. Alternatively, for that portion of the drainage or levee district that is part of a soil and water conservation district, the practice must be consistent with the soil and water resource conservation plan developed for that soil and water conservation district by the division of soil conservation and water quality of the department of agriculture and land stewardship. The governing board of a drainage or levee district is a board of supervisors, a joint board of supervisors for an intercounty drainage or levee district, or a board of trustees elected by landowners in the district.