Iowa § 161A.48 Mandatory establishment of soil and water conservation practices

Iowa Statutes

§ 161A.48 — Mandatory establishment of soil and water conservation practices

Iowa § 161A.48

Title VAGRICULTURE

Ch. 161ASOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION

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Iowa Code § 161A.48 (2026).

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1.An owner or occupant of agricultural land in this state is not required to establish any new permanent or temporary soil and water conservation practice unless cost-share or other public moneys have been specifically approved for that land and made available to the owner or occupant pursuant to section 161A.74.

2.Evidence that an application for cost-share or other public moneys, from a source or sources having authority to pay a portion of the cost of work needed to comply with an administrative order issued pursuant to section 161A.47, has been submitted to the proper 23 SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION, §161A.50 officer or agency constitutes commencement of the work within the meaning of sections 161A.43 through 161A.53.

3.Upon receiving evidence of the submission of an application, the

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1. An owner or occupant of agricultural land in this state is not required to establish any
new permanent or temporary soil and water conservation practice unless cost-share or other
public moneys have been specifically approved for that land and made available to the owner
or occupant pursuant to section 161A.74.
2. Evidence that an application for cost-share or other public moneys, from a source or
sources having authority to pay a portion of the cost of work needed to comply with an
administrative order issued pursuant to section 161A.47, has been submitted to the proper
23 SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION, §161A.50
officer or agency constitutes commencement of the work within the meaning of sections
161A.43 through 161A.53.
3. Upon receiving evidence of the submission of an application, the commissioners shall
forward to the officer or agency to which the application was made a written request to
receive notification of the disposition of the application. When notified of the approval
of the application, the commissioners shall issue to the same parties who received the
original administrative order, or their successors in interest, a supplementary order, to
be delivered in the same manner as provided by sections 161A.43 through 161A.47, this
section, and sections 161A.49 through 161A.51 for delivery of original administrative orders.
The supplementary order shall state a time, not more than six months after approval of
the application for public cost-sharing funds, by which the work needed to comply with
the original administrative order shall actually be commenced, and a time thereafter when
the work is to be satisfactorily completed. If feasible, that time shall be within one year
after the date of the supplementary order, but the owner of land on which a soil and water
conservation practice is being established under this section is not required to incur a cost
for the practice in any one calendar year which exceeds ten dollars per acre for each acre
of land belonging to that owner and located in the county containing the land on which the
required practice is being established or in counties contiguous to that county.