Iowa Admin. Code r. 567-65.1
In addition to the definitions in Iowa Code sections 455B. 101,455B. 171 and 459.102 and in 567-Chapter 60, the following definitions shall apply to Division I of this chapter:
"Abandoned confinement feeding operation structure" means the confinement feeding operation structure has been razed, removed from the site of a confinement feeding operation, filled in with earth, or converted to uses other than a confinement feeding operation structure so that it cannot be used as a confinement feeding operation structure without significant reconstruction.
"Adjacent -air quality" means, for the purpose of determining separation distance requirements pursuant to 567-65.11 (459,459B), that two or more confinement feeding operations are adjacent if they have animal feeding operation structures that are separated at their closest points by less than the following:
"Adjacent -water quality" means, for the purpose of determining the construction permit requirements pursuant to 567-65.7 (459,459B) and manure management plan requirements pursuant to 567-65.16 (459,459B), that two or more confinement feeding operations are adjacent if they have confinement feeding operation structures that are separated at their closest points by less than the following:
"Aerobic structure" means an animal feeding operation structure other than an egg washwater storage structure which relies on aerobic bacterial action which is maintained by the utilization of air or oxygen and which includes aeration equipment to digest organic matter. Aeration equipment shall be used and shall be capable of providing oxygen at a rate sufficient to maintain an average of 2 milligrams per liter dissolved oxygen concentration in the upper 30 percent of the depth of manure in the structure at all times.
"Agricultural drainage well" means a vertical opening to an aquifer or permeable substratum which is constructed by any means including but not limited to drilling, driving, digging, boring, augering, jetting, washing, or coring and which is capable of intercepting or receiving surface or subsurface drainage water from land directly or by a drainage system.
"Agricultural drainage well area " means an area of land where surface or subsurface water drains into an agricultural drainage well directly or through a drainage system connecting to the agricultural drainage well.
"Alluvial aquifer area" means an area underlaid by sand or gravel aquifers situated beneath fioodplains along stream valleys and includes alluvial deposits associated with stream terraces and benches, contiguous windblown sand deposits, and glacial outwash deposits.
"Alluvial soils" means soils formed in materials deposited by moving water.
"Anaerobic lagoon " means an unformed manure storage structure if the primary function of the structure is to store and stabilize manure, the structure is designed to receive manure on a regular basis, and the structure's design waste loading rates provide that the predominant biological activity is anaerobic. An anaerobic lagoon does not include the following:
"Animal capacity " means the maximum number of animals which the owner or operator will confine in an animal feeding operation at any one time. In a confinement feeding operation, the animal capacity of all confinement buildings will be included in the determination of the animal capacity of the operation, unless the building has been abandoned in accordance with the definition of "abandoned confinement feeding operation structure."
"Animal feeding operation " means a lot, yard, corral, building, or other area in which animals are confined and fed and maintained for 45 days or more in any 12-month period, and all structures used for the storage of manure from animals in the operation. Except as required for an NPDES permit required pursuant to the Act, an animal feeding operation does not include a livestock market. Open feedlots and confinement feeding operations are considered to be separate animal feeding operations.
"Animal feeding operation structure " means a confinement building, manure storage structure, dry bedded confinement feeding operation structure, or egg washwater storage structure.
"Animal unit" means a unit of measurement based upon the product of multiplying the number of animals of each category by a special equivalency factor, as follows:
1. Slaughter and feeder cattle.................................................. | 1.000 |
2. Immature dairy cattle...................................................... | 1.000 |
3. Mature dairy cattle........................................................ | 1.400 |
4. Butcher or breeding swine weighing more than 55 pounds......................... | 0.400 |
5. Swine weighing 15 pounds or more but not more than 55 pounds................... | 0.100 |
6. Sheep or lambs........................................................... | 0.100 |
7. Goats .................................................................. | 0.100 |
8. Horses ................................................................. | 2.000 |
9. Turkeys weighing 7 pounds or more .......................................... | 0.018 |
10. Turkeys weighing less than 7 pounds ........................................ | 0.0085 |
11. Broiler or layer chickens weighing 3 pounds or more............................ | 0.010 |
12. Broiler or layer chickens weighing less than 3 pounds........................... | 0.0025 |
13. Ducks................................................................. | 0.040 |
14. Fish weighing 25 grams or more............................................ | 0.001 |
15. Fish weighing less than 25 grams............................................ | 0.00006 |
"Animal unit capacity" means a measurement used to determine the maximum number of animal units that may be maintained as part of an animal feeding operation at any one time, including as provided in Iowa Code sections 459.201 and 459.301. For dry bedded confinement feeding operations, "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, including the animal unit capacity of all dry bedded confinement feeding operation buildings that are used to house cattle or swine in the dry bedded confinement feeding operation.
"Animal weight capacity" means the sum of the average weight of all animals in a confinement feeding operation when the operation is at full animal capacity. For confinement feeding operations with only one species, the animal weight capacity is the product of multiplying the animal capacity by the average weight during a production cycle. For operations with more than one species, the animal weight capacity of the operation is the sum of the animal weight capacities for all species.
EXAMPLE 1. Bill wants to construct a confinement feeding operation with two confinement buildings and an earthen manure storage basin. The capacity of each building will be 900 market hogs. The hogs enter the building at 40 pounds and leave at 250 pounds. The average weight during the production cycle is then 145 pounds for this operation. The animal weight capacity of the operation is 145 pounds multiplied by 1,800 for a total of 261,000 pounds.
EXAMPLE 2. Howard is planning to build a confinement feeding operation with eight confinement buildings and an egg washwater storage lagoon. The capacity of each building will be 125,000 laying
hens. The hens enter the building at around 2.5 pounds and leave at around 3.5 pounds. The average weight during the production cycle for these laying hens is 3.0 pounds. Manure will be handled in dry form. The animal weight capacity of the operation is 3.0 pounds multiplied by 1,000,000 for a total of 3,000,000 pounds.
EXAMPLE 3. Carol has an animal feeding operation with four confinement buildings with below floor formed concrete manure storage tanks and one open feedlot. One confinement building is a farrowing building with a capacity of 72 sows. One confinement building is a nursery building with a capacity of 1,450 pigs. The open feedlot contains 425 sows. Two of the confinement buildings are finishing buildings with a capacity of 1,250 market hogs. The farrowing building contains 72 sows at an average weight of 400 pounds for an animal weight capacity of 28,800 pounds. The nursery building contains 1,450 pigs with an average weight over the production cycle of 25 pounds for an animal weight capacity of 36,250 pounds. The two finishing buildings contain 2,500 market hogs (combined) with an average weight over the production cycle of 150 pounds for an animal weight capacity of 375,000 pounds. The total animal weight capacity of the confinement feeding operation is 440,050 pounds. The weights of the animals in open lots are not included in the calculation of the animal weight capacity of the confinement feeding operation.
"Applicant" means the person applying for a construction permit or an NPDES permit for a confinement feeding operation.
"Bedding" means crop, vegetation, or forage residue or similar materials placed in a dry bedded confinement building for the care of animals.
"Business" means a commercial enterprise.
"Cemetery" means a space held for the purpose of permanent burial, entombment or interment of human remains that is owned or managed by a political subdivision or private entity, or a cemetery regulated pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 5231. A cemetery does not include a pioneer cemetery where there have been six or fewer burials in the preceding 50 years.
"Church " means a religious institution.
"Commercial enterprise " means a building which is used as a part of a business that manufactures goods, delivers services, or sells goods or services, which is customarily and regularly used by the general public during the entire calendar year and which is connected to electric, water, and sewer systems. A commercial enterprise does not include a farm operation.
"Commercial manure service" means a sole proprietor or business association engaged in the business of transporting, handling, storing, or applying manure for a fee.
"Commercial manure service representative " means a manager, employee, agent, or contractor of a commercial manure service, if the person is engaged in transporting, handling, storing, or applying manure on behalf of the service.
"Common management" means significant control by an individual of the management of the day-to-day operations of each of two or more confinement feeding operations. "Common management" does not include control over a contract livestock facility by a contractor as defined in Iowa Code section 202.1.
"Common ownership" means the ownership of an animal feeding operation as a sole proprietor, or a 10 percent or more ownership interest held by a person, in each of two or more animal feeding operations as a joint tenant, tenant in common, shareholder, partner, member, beneficiary, or other equity interest holder. The ownership interest is a common ownership interest when it is held directly, indirectly through a spouse or dependent child, or both. The following exceptions shall apply to this definition:
"Complete application" means an application that is complete and approvable when all necessary questions on the application forms have been completed, the application is signed and all applicable portions of the application, including the application form and required attachments, have been submitted.
"Confinement feeding operation" means an animal feeding operation in which animals are confined to areas which are totally roofed and includes every animal feeding operation that is not an "open feedlot operation" as defined in 567-65.100 (459A).
"Confinement feeding operation building" or"confinement building" means a building used in conjunction with a confinement feeding operation to house animals.
"Confinement feeding operation structure" means an animal feeding operation structure that is part of a confinement feeding operation.
"Confinement site" means a site where there is located a manure storage structure which is part of a confinement feeding operation, other than a small animal feeding operation.
"Confinement site manure applicator" means a person, other than a commercial manure service or a commercial manure service representative, who applies manure on land if the manure originates from a manure storage structure.
"Construction approval letter" means a written document of the department to acknowledge that the preconstruction submittal requirements of 567-65.9 (459,459B) have been met for a confinement feeding operation that is not required to obtain a construction permit pursuant to 567-65.7(459,459B).
"Construction design statement" means a document required to be submitted by a confinement feeding operation prior to constructing a formed manure storage structure, other than a small animal feeding operation, but that does not meet the threshold engineering requirements pursuant to 567-65.1 (459,459B).
"Construction permit" means a written approval of the department to construct, modify or alter the use of an animal feeding operation structure as provided in subrule 65.7(1).
"Controlling interest" means ownership of a confinement feeding operation as a sole proprietor or a majority ownership interest held by a person in a confinement feeding operation as a joint tenant, tenant in common, shareholder, partner, member, beneficiary, or other equity interest holder. The majority ownership interest is a controlling interest when it is held directly, indirectly through a spouse or dependent child, or both. The majority ownership interest must be a voting interest or otherwise control management of the confinement feeding operation.
"Covered" means organic or inorganic material, placed upon an animal feeding operation structure used to store manure, which significantly reduces the exchange of gases between the stored manure and the outside air. Organic materials include, but are not limited to, a layer of chopped straw, other crop residue, or a naturally occurring crust on the surface of the stored manure. Inorganic materials include, but are not limited to, wood, steel, aluminum, rubber, plastic, or Styrofoam. The materials shall shield at least 90 percent of the surface area of the stored manure from the outside air. Cover shall include an organic or inorganic material which current scientific research shows reduces detectable odor by at least 75 percent. A formed manure storage structure directly beneath a floor where animals are housed in a confinement feeding operation is deemed to be covered.
"Critical public area" means land that is owned or managed by the federal government, by the department, or by a political subdivision and that has unique scenic, cultural, archaeological, scientific, or historic significance or contains a rare or valuable ecological system. Critical public areas include:
* State wildlife and waterfowl refuges listed in 571-subrules 52.1(2) and 52.1(3);
* Recreation areas, state parks, state parks managed by another governmental agency, and state preserves as listed in 571-61.2 (461A);
* County parks and recreation areas as provided in subrule 65.1(2);
* National wildlife refuges listed as follows: Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge, DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge, Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge, Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, and Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge;
* National monuments and national historic sites listed as follows: Effigy Mounds National Monument and Herbert Hoover National Historic Site;
* Parks in Iowa that are under the federal jurisdiction listed with the United States Army Corps of Engineers as provided in subrule 65.1(2).
"Cropland" means any land suitable for use in agricultural production including, but not limited to, feed, grain and seed crops, fruits, vegetables, forages, sod, trees, grassland, pasture and other similar crops.
"Deep well" means a well located and constructed in such a manner that there is a continuous layer of low permeability soil or rock at least 5 feet thick located at least 25 feet below the normal ground surface and above the aquifer from which water is to be drawn.
"Designated area" means a known sinkhole, abandoned well, unplugged agricultural drainage well, agricultural drainage well cistern, agricultural drainage well surface tile inlet, drinking water well, designated wetland, or water source. "Designated area" does not include a terrace tile inlet or surface tile inlet other than an agricultural drainage well surface tile inlet.
"Designated wetland" means land designated as a protected wetland by the United States Department of the Interior or the department, including but not limited to a protected wetland as defined in Iowa Code section 456B.1, if the land is owned and managed by the federal government or the department. However, a designated wetland does not include land where an agricultural drainage well has been plugged causing a temporary wetland or land within a drainage district or levee district. Designated wetlands in the state are listed in the department's "Designated Wetlands in Iowa" (see subrule 65.1(2), Incorporation by reference).
"Discontinued animal feeding operation" means an animal feeding operation whose structures have been abandoned or whose use has been discontinued as evidenced by the removal of all animals and the owner or operator has no immediate plans to repopulate.
"Discontinued animal feeding operation structure" means an animal feeding operation structure that has been abandoned or whose use has been discontinued as evidenced by the removal of all animals from the structure and the owner or operator has no immediate plans to repopulate.
"Document" means any form required to be processed by the department under this chapter regulating animal feeding operations, including but not limited to applications or related materials for permits as provided in Iowa Code section 459.303, manure management plans as provided in Iowa Code section 459.312, comment or evaluation by a county board of supervisors considering an application for a construction permit, the department's analysis of the application including using and responding to a master matrix pursuant to Iowa Code section 459.304, and notices required under those sections.
"Dry bedded confinement feeding operation" means a confinement feeding operation in which cattle or swine are confined to areas which are totally roofed and in which all manure is stored as dry bedded manure. Unless specifically stated otherwise, all requirements in Division I of this chapter do apply to dry bedded confinement feeding operations.
"Dry bedded confinement feeding operation structure" means a dry bedded confinement feeding operation building or a dry bedded manure storage structure.
"Dry bedded manure" means manure from cattle or swine that meets all of the following requirements:
"Dry bedded manure confinement feeding operation building " or"building " means a building used in conjunction with a confinement feeding operation to house cattle or swine and in which any manure from the animals is stored as dry bedded manure.
"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.
"Dry manure" means manure which meets all of the following conditions:
"Dry manure" includes manure marketed as a bulk dry animal nutrient product that is stored 1,250 feet or less from the confinement animal feeding structure from which it originated.
"Earthen manure storage basin" means an earthen cavity, either covered or uncovered, which, on a regular basis, receives manure discharges from a confinement feeding operation if accumulated manure from the basin is completely removed at least once each year.
"Earthen waste slurry storage basin" means an uncovered and exclusively earthen cavity which, on a regular basis, receives manure discharges from a confinement animal feeding operation if accumulated manure from the basin is completely removed at least twice each year and which was issued a permit, constructed or expanded on or after July 1, 1990, but prior to May 31, 1995.
"Educational institution" means a building in which an organized course of study or training is offered to students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12 and served by local school districts, accredited or approved nonpublic schools, area educational agencies, community colleges, institutions of higher education under the control of the state board of regents, and accredited independent colleges and universities.
"Egg washwater storage structure" means an aerobic or anaerobic structure used to store the wastewater resulting from the washing and in-shell packaging of eggs. It does not include a structure also used as a manure storage structure.
"Enforcement action" means an action against a person with a controlling interest in a confinement feeding operation initiated by the department or the attorney general to enforce the provisions of Iowa Code chapter 459 or rules adopted pursuant to the chapter. An enforcement action begins when the attorney general institutes proceedings in district court pursuant to Iowa Code section 455B.112. An enforcement action is pending until final resolution of the action by satisfaction of a court order, for which all judicial appeal rights are exhausted, expired, or waived.
"Family member" means a person related to another person as parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, sibling, or a spouse of such related person.
"Formed manure storage structure" means a covered or uncovered impoundment used to store manure from an animal feeding operation, which has walls and a floor constructed of concrete, concrete block, wood, steel, or similar materials. Similar materials may include, but are not limited to, plastic, rubber, fiberglass, or other synthetic materials. Materials used in a formed manure storage structure shall have the structural integrity to withstand expected internal and external load pressures.
"Freeboard" means the difference in elevation between the liquid level and the confinement feeding operation structure's overflow level.
"Frozen ground" means soil that is impenetrable due to frozen soil moisture but does not include soil that is only frozen to a depth of two inches or less.
"Grassed waterway" means a natural or constructed channel that is shaped or graded to required dimensions and established in suitable vegetation for the stable conveyance of runoff.
"Highly erodible land" means a field that has one-third or more of its acres or 50 acres, whichever is less, with soils that have an erodibility index of eight or more, as determined by rules promulgated by the United States Department of Agriculture.
"Human sanitary waste" means wastewater derived from domestic uses including bathroom and laundry facilities generating wastewater from toilets, baths, showers, lavatories and clothes washing.
"Incidental" means a duty which is secondary or subordinate to a primary job or function.
"Incorporation" means a soil tillage operation following the surface application of manure which mixes the manure into the upper four inches or more of soil.
"Indemnity fund" means the manure storage indemnity fund created in Iowa Code section 459.501.
"Injection" means the application of manure into the soil surface using equipment that discharges it beneath the surface.
"Interest" means ownership of a confinement feeding operation as a sole proprietor or a 10 percent or more ownership interest held by a person in a confinement feeding operation as a joint tenant, tenant in common, shareholder, partner, member, beneficiary, or other equity interest holder. The ownership interest is an interest when it is held directly, indirectly through a spouse or dependent child, or both.
"Internet" means the federated international system that is composed of allied electronic communication networks linked by telecommunication channels, that uses standardized protocols, and that facilitates electronic communication services, including but not limited to use of the World Wide Web; the transmission of electronic mail or messages; the transfer of files and data or other electronic information; and the transmission of voice, image, and video.
"Karst terrain" means land having karst formations that exhibit surface and subterranean features of a type produced by the dissolution of limestone, dolomite, or other soluble rock and characterized by closed depressions, sinkholes, or caves. If a 25-foot vertical separation distance can be maintained between the bottom of an unformed manure storage structure and limestone, dolomite, or other soluble rock, then the structure is not considered to be in karst terrain.
"liquid manure" means manure that meets all of the following requirements:
Liquid manure that is frozen or partially frozen is included in this definition.
"livestock market" means any place where animals are assembled from two or more sources for public auction, private sale, or on a commission basis, which is under state or federal supervision, including a livestock sale barn or auction market, if such animals are kept for ten days or less.
"long-term stockpile location" means an area where a person stockpiles manure for more than a total of six months in any two-year period.
"low-pressure irrigation system" means spray irrigation equipment which discharges manure from a maximum height of 9 feet in a downward direction, and which utilizes spray nozzles which discharge manure at a maximum pressure of 25 pounds per square inch.
"Major water source" means a water source that is a lake, reservoir, river or stream located within the territorial limits of the state, or any marginal river area adjacent to the state, if the water source is capable of supporting a floating vessel capable of carrying one or more persons during a total of a six-month period in one out often years, excluding periods of flooding. Major water sources in the state are listed in Table 1 and Table 2 at the end of this chapter.
"Manager" means a person who is actively involved in the operation of the service and makes management decisions in the operation of a commercial manure service.
"Man-made manure drainage system " means a drainage ditch, flushing system, or other drainage device which was constructed by human beings and is used for the purpose of transporting manure.
"Manure " means animal excreta or other commonly associated wastes of animals including, but not limited to, bedding, litter, or feed losses. Manure does not include wastewater resulting from the washing and in-shell packaging of eggs. For the purposes of NPDES permitting, "manure" includes manure, bedding, compost and raw materials or other materials commingled with manure or set aside for disposal.
"Manure storage structure" means a formed manure storage structure, an unformed manure storage structure or a dry bedded manure storage structure. A manure storage structure does not include an egg washwater storage structure. An animal truck wash facility may be part of a confinement feeding operation. An animal truck wash effluent structure may be the same as a manure storage structure that is part of the confinement feeding operation, so long as the primary function of such impoundment is to collect and store both effluent from the animal truck wash facility and manure from the confinement feeding operation.
"New animal feeding operation" means an animal feeding operation whose construction was begun after July 22, 1987, or whose operation is resumed after having been discontinued for a period of 12 months or more.
"NPDES permit" means a written permit of the department, pursuant to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program, to authorize and regulate the operation of a CAFO. "CAFO" means the same as defined in 567-65.100 (459A).
"NRCS" means United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Services.
"One hundred year floodplain " means the land adjacent to a major water source, if there is at least a 1 percent chance that the land will be inundated in any one year, according to calculations adopted by rules adopted pursuant to Iowa Code section 459.103. In making the calculations, the department shall consider available maps or data compiled by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"Owner " means the person who has legal or equitable title to the property where the confinement feeding operation is located or the person who has legal or equitable title to the confinement feeding operation structures. "Owner" does not include a person who has a lease to use the land where the confinement feeding operation is located or to use the confinement feeding operation structures.
"Permanent vegetation cover" means land which is maintained in perennial vegetative cover consisting of grasses, legumes, or both, and includes, but is not limited to, pastures, grasslands or forages.
"Professional engineer" means a person engaged in the practice of engineering as defined in Iowa Code section 542B.2 who is issued a certificate of licensure as a professional engineer pursuant to Iowa Code section 542B.17.
"Public thoroughfare" means a road, street, or bridge that is constructed or maintained by the state or a political subdivision.
"Public use area" means that portion of land owned by the United States, the state, or a political subdivision with facilities which attract the public to congregate and remain in the area for significant periods of time. Facilities include, but are not limited to, picnic grounds, campgrounds, cemeteries, lodges and cabins, shelter houses, playground equipment, swimming beaches at lakes, and fishing docks, fishing houses, fishing jetties or fishing piers at lakes. It does not include a highway, road right-of-way, parking areas, recreational trails or other areas where the public passes through, but does not congregate or remain in the area for significant periods of time.
"Public water supply" (also referred to as a system or a water system) means a system for the provision to the public of piped water for human consumption, if such system has at least 15 service connections or regularly serves an average of at least 25 individuals daily at least 60 days out of the year. Such term includes (1) any collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under control of the supplier of water and used primarily in connection with such system, and (2) any collection (including wells) or pretreatment storage facilities not under such control which are used primarily in connection with such system. A public water supply system is either a "community water system" or a "noncommunity water system."
"Q100, " as defined in 567-70.2 (455B,481A), means a flood having a 1 percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any one year as determined by the department.
"Qualified confinement feeding operation" means a confinement feeding operation which has an animal unit capacity of:
* The replacement breeding swine are raised at the confinement feeding operation; and
* The replacement breeding swine are used in the farrowing and gestation operation.
"Qualified stockpile cover " means a barrier impermeable to precipitation that is used to protect a stockpile from precipitation.
"Qualified stockpile structure " means a building or roofed structure that is all of the following:
"Release " means an actual, imminent or probable discharge of manure from an animal feeding operation structure to surface water, groundwater, drainage tile line or intake, or to a designated area resulting from storing, handling, transporting or land-applying manure.
"Religious institution" means a building in which an active congregation is devoted to worship.
"Research college" means an accredited public or private college or university, including but not limited to a university under control of the state board of regents as provided in Iowa Code chapter 262, or a community college under the jurisdiction of a board of directors for a merged area as provided in Iowa Code chapter 260C, if the college or university performs research or experimental activities regarding animal agriculture or agronomy.
"Residence" means a house or other building, including all structures attached to the building, not owned by the owner of the animal feeding operation, which meets all of the following criteria at the location of the intended residence:
If a house or other building has not been occupied by humans for more than six months in the last two years, or if a house or other building has been constructed or moved to its current location within six months, the owner of the intended residence has the burden of proving that the house or other building is a residence. Paragraph "3" shall not apply to a house or other building inhabited by persons who are exempt from the compulsory education standards of Iowa Code section 299.24 and whose religious principles or tenets prohibit the use of the utilities listed.
"Restricted spray irrigation equipment" means spray irrigation equipment which disperses manure through an orifice at a rate of 80 pounds per square inch or more.
"School" means an educational institution.
"Seasonal high-water table" means the part of the soil profile closest to the soil surface that becomes saturated (usually in the spring) as observed in a monitoring well or determined by recognition of soil redoxomorphic features.
Note: "Redoxomorphic features" refers to the gleying or mottling or both that occur under saturated conditions within the soil profile.
"Secondary containment barrier" means a structure used to retain accidental manure overflow from a manure storage structure.
"Shallow well" means a well located and constructed in such a manner that there is not a continuous layer of low permeability soil or rock (or equivalent retarding mechanism acceptable to the department) at least 5 feet thick, the top of which is located at least 25 feet below the normal ground surface and above the aquifer from which water is to be drawn.
"Small animal feeding operation" means an animal feeding operation which has an animal unit capacity of 500 or fewer animal units.
"Snow-covered ground" means soil covered by one inch or more of snow or soil covered by one-half inch or more of ice.
"Spray irrigation equipment" means mechanical equipment used for the aerial application of manure, if the equipment receives manure from a manure storage structure during application via a pipe or hose connected to the structure, and includes a type of equipment customarily used for aerial application of water to aid the growing of general farm crops.
"Stockpile" means dry manure or dry bedded manure originating from a confinement feeding operation that is stored at a particular location outside a confinement feeding operation building or a manure storage structure.
"Stockpile dry bedded manure" means to store dry bedded manure outside a dry bedded manure confinement feeding operation building or a dry bedded manure storage structure.
"Stockpile dry manure" means to create or add to a dry manure stockpile.
"Surface water drain tile intake" means an opening to a drain tile, including intake pipes and French drains, which allows surface water to enter the drain tile without filtration through the soil profile.
"Swine farrow-to-finish operation" means a confinement feeding operation in which porcine animals are produced and in which a primary portion of the phases of the production cycle is conducted at one confinement feeding operation. Phases of the production cycle include, but are not limited to, gestation, farrowing, growing and finishing. At a minimum, farrowing, growing, and finishing shall be conducted at the operation with a majority of the pigs farrowed at the site finished to market weight in order to qualify as a farrow-to-finish operation.
"Thoroughfare" means a road, street, bridge or highway open to the public and constructed or maintained by the state or a political subdivision.
"Threshold requirements for an engineer" means the limits, pursuant to Iowa Code section 459.303, which require that the design of a formed manure storage structure or egg washwater storage structure be prepared and signed by a professional engineer licensed in the state of Iowa or by an engineer working for the NRCS. A confinement feeding operation that utilizes a formed manure storage structure meets threshold requirements for an engineer if any of the following apply:
"Unformed manure storage structure" means a covered or uncovered impoundment used to store manure, other than a formed manure storage structure, which includes an anaerobic lagoon, aerobic structure, or earthen manure storage basin.
"Water of the state" means any stream, lake, pond, marsh, watercourse, waterway, well, spring, reservoir, aquifer, irrigation system, drainage system, and any other body or accumulation of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
"Water source " means a lake, river, reservoir, creek, stream, ditch, or other body of water or channel having definite banks and a bed with water flow, except lakes or ponds without outlet to which only one landowner is riparian.
"Water well" means an excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, augered, washed, driven, dug, jetted, or otherwise constructed for the purpose of exploring for groundwater, monitoring groundwater, utilizing the geothermal properties of the ground, or extracting water from or injecting water into the aquifer. "Water well" does not include an open ditch or drain tiles or an excavation made for obtaining or prospecting for oil, natural gas, minerals, or products mined or quarried.
"Wetted perimeter" means the outside edge of land where the direct discharge of manure occurs from spray irrigation equipment.
Iowa Admin. Code r. 567-65.1