From: Debbie Neustadt

We could not support this bill and it did not make it through the second
funnel. It is dead - thank heaven !!!!
Now all we have to worry about is the power plant siting bill.

Charles Winterwood wrote:

> IF THIS IS THE FINAL VERSION OF THE BILL IN THE HOUSE
> SHOULD WE SUPPORT IT?
>
> Charlie Winterwood
> Chair
> Iowa Chapter
>
> --- Jane Clark <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > From Mark Lambert
> > Iowa Environmental Council
> >
> > First, thanks to everyone who called or e-mailed
> > your Senator regarding SF
> > 503, the "open feedlots" bill.    This bill was
> > being supported by the Iowa
> > Cattlemen's Association, and the original language
> > said that DNR could not
> > require manure-control practices unless 50% cost
> > share was provided by the
> > government.
> >
> > The bill was brought up for debate in the Iowa
> > Senate last evening, Monday,
> > April 2.   Senator Mike Sexton (R -Rockwell City)
> > floor-managed the bill.
> > Senator Jack Kibbie (D-Emmetsburg) offered an
> > amendment to change the
> > requirement for cost share from "at least" 50% to
> > "up to" 50%.   The
> > amendment passed.
> >
> > Then, Senator Mary Lundby  (R-Marion) offered an
> > amendment to prohibit the
> > construction of an animal feeding operation in a
> > 100-year floodplain.
> > (This language was the same as a bill that had
> > passed out of the Senate
> > Natural Resources Committee earlier this year,  but
> > has never been placed
> > on the debate calendar).    Senator Sexton
> > questioned whether the amendment
> > was germane to the bill.   The chair ruled that the
> > amendment was germane.
> >
> > Those speaking in favor of the amendment were
> > Senators Lundby, McKean,
> > Black, Fiegen, Kibbie, Hansen.    Those speaking in
> > opposition were Senator
> > Sexton and King.   HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS:  After more
> > than an hour of
> > debate, the amendment passed by a 47-3 vote.
> > Senators voting "no" were
> > King, McLaren and Drake.
> >
> > The Senators then debated the bill further, and the
> > final vote on the bill
> > was 32-18.  The eighteen "no" votes were:  Bolkcom,
> > Connolly, Dearden,
> > Deluhery, Dvorsky, Fink, Flynn, Gronstal, Hammond,
> > Hansen, Harper, Holveck,
> > Horn, Maddox, McCoy, Redfern, Shearer and Tinsman.
> > Some Senators who were
> > going to oppose the bill decided to vote for it
> > since the Lundby amendment
> > passed.
> >
> > ACTION TO TAKE:  SF 503 now goes to the House, and
> > it is very likely it
> > will be assigned to the House Agriculture Committee.
> >     If your
> > Representative is on the House Ag Committee, please
> > contact her or him and
> > 1)  urge opposition to the language that conditions
> > enforcement of
> > manure-management laws on the provision of
> > cost-share money and 2) urge
> > support of the language banning the construction of
> > animal feeding
> > operations in the 100-year floodplain.   Members of
> > the House Ag Committee
> > are:  Klemme, De Boef, Kuhn, Alons, Atteberry,
> > Baudler, Boggess, Fallon,
> > Frevert, Houser, Huseman, Johnson, Kreiman,
> > Manternach, May, Mertz,
> > Rayhons, Rekow, Scherrman, Schrader, Teig.
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