Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 459B - Dry Bedded Confinement Feeding Operations

• 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. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• Animal: means cattle or swine. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• Animal unit: means the same as defined in section 459. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• 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. 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
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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
• Child: includes child by adoption. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Commercial enterprise: means the same as defined in section 459. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• Commission: means the natural resource commission. See Iowa Code 462A.2
• Confinement feeding operation: means the same as defined in section 459. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Designated area: means the same as defined in section 459A. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• Designated wetland: means the same as defined in section 459. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• 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. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• Dry bedded confinement feeding operation structure: means a dry bedded manure confinement feeding operation building or a dry bedded manure storage structure. 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
• Educational institution: means the same as defined in section 459. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• Farm pond: means a body of water wholly on the lands of a single owner, or a group of joint owners, which does not have any connection with any public waters and which is less than ten surface acres. See Iowa Code 462A.2
• 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
• Grassed waterway: means the same as defined in section 459A. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• High-quality water resource: means the same as defined in section 459. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• Karst terrain: means the same as defined in section 459. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• Livestock: includes but is not limited to an animal classified as an ostrich, rhea, or emu. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Major water source: means the same as defined in section 459. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• Management plan: means the document that states the goals and objectives of a specific protected water area which has been proposed for designation, the specific description of the area to be protected, land use agreements with property owners, the specific management programming considerations for the area, the in-depth project evaluations, analysis, justifications, and cost estimates, the proposed acquisition of fee title and conservation easements and other agreements, and the specific design and layout of facilities. See Iowa Code 462B.1
• Manure: means the same as defined in section 459. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• One hundred year floodplain: 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
• Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, or association. See Iowa Code 462A.2
• Privately owned lake: means any lake, located within the boundaries of this state and not subject to federal control covering navigation owned by an individual, group of individuals, or a nonprofit corporation and which is not open to the use of the general public but is used exclusively by the owners and their personal guests. See Iowa Code 462A.2
• Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Stockpile: means to store dry bedded manure outside of a dry bedded manure confinement feeding operation building or a dry bedded manure storage structure. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• Use: means to operate, navigate, or employ a vessel. See Iowa Code 462A.2
• Water source: means the same as defined in section 459. See Iowa Code 459B.102
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1