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.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 459B.102

  • Animal: means cattle or swine. See Iowa Code 459B.102
  • Bedding: means crop, vegetation, or forage residue or similar materials placed in a dry bedded confinement building for the care of animals. See Iowa Code 459B.102
  • 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. See Iowa Code 459B.102
  • Confinement feeding operation: means the same as defined in section 459. See Iowa Code 459B.102
  • Department: means the department of natural resources. See Iowa Code 459B.102
  • Dry bedded manure: means manure from animals that meets all of the following requirements:
     a. See Iowa Code 459B.102
  • Dry bedded manure storage structure: means a covered or uncovered structure, other than a building, used to store dry bedded manure originating from a confinement feeding operation. See Iowa Code 459B.102
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Manure: means the same as defined in section 459. See Iowa Code 459B.102
  • Operator: means a person who operates or is in actual physical control of a vessel. See Iowa Code 462A.2
  • Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property right in or title to a motorboat or vessel. See Iowa Code 462A.2
  • Use: means to operate, navigate, or employ a vessel. See Iowa Code 462A.2
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
 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:

 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. “Dry bedded manure storage structure” means a covered or uncovered structure, 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.
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