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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1.“Alluvial aquifer area” means an area underlaid by sand or gravel aquifers situated
beneath floodplains along stream valleys and includes alluvial deposits associated with
stream terraces and benches, contiguous wind-blown sand deposits, and glacial outwash
deposits.
2.“Animal” means cattle or swine.
3.“Animal unit” means the same as defined in section 459.102.
4.“Animal unit capacity” means the maximum number of animal units which the owner
or operator confines in a dry bedded confinement feeding operation at any one time.
5.“Bedding” means crop, vegetation, or forage residue or similar materials placed in a
dry bedded confinement building for the care of animals.
6.“Commercial enterprise” means the same as defined in
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Alluvial aquifer area” means an area underlaid by sand or gravel aquifers situated
beneath floodplains along stream valleys and includes alluvial deposits associated with
stream terraces and benches, contiguous wind-blown sand deposits, and glacial outwash
deposits.
2. “Animal” means cattle or swine.
3. “Animal unit” means the same as defined in section 459.102.
4. “Animal unit capacity” means the maximum number of animal units which the owner
or operator confines in a dry bedded confinement feeding operation at any one time.
5. “Bedding” means crop, vegetation, or forage residue or similar materials placed in a
dry bedded confinement building for the care of animals.
6. “Commercial enterprise” means the same as defined in section 459.102.
7. “Confinement feeding operation” means the same as defined in section 459.102.
8. “Department” means the department of natural resources.
9. “Designated area” means the same as defined in section 459A.102.
10. “Designated wetland” means the same as defined in section 459.102.
11. “Dry bedded confinement feeding operation” means a confinement feeding operation
in which animals are confined to areas which are totally roofed and in which all manure is
stored as dry bedded manure.
12. “Dry bedded confinement feeding operation structure” means a dry bedded manure
confinement feeding operation building or a dry bedded manure storage structure.
13. “Dry bedded manure” means manure from animals that meets all of the following
requirements:
§459B.102, DRY BEDDED CONFINEMENT FEEDING OPERATIONS 2
a. The manure does not flow perceptibly under pressure.
b. The manure is not capable of being transported through a mechanical pumping device
designed to move a liquid.
c. The manure contains bedding.
14. “Dry bedded manure confinement feeding operation building” or “building” means a
building used in conjunction with a confinement feeding operation to house animals and in
which any manure from the animals is stored as dry bedded manure.
15. “Drybeddedmanurestoragestructure”meansacoveredoruncoveredstructure, other
than a building, used to store dry bedded manure originating from a confinement feeding
operation.
16. “Educational institution” means the same as defined in section 459.102.
17. “Grassed waterway” means the same as defined in section 459A.102.
18. “High-quality water resource” means the same as defined in section 459.102.
19. “Karst terrain” means the same as defined in section 459.102.
20. “Major water source” means the same as defined in section 459.102.
21. “Manure” means the same as defined in section 459.102.
22. “One hundred year floodplain” means the same as defined in section 459.102.
23. “Public use area” means the same as defined in section 459.102.
24. “Stockpile” means to store dry bedded manure outside of a dry bedded manure
confinement feeding operation building or a dry bedded manure storage structure.
25. “Water source” means the same as defined in section 459.102.