Environmental Services
Division
MEDIA CONTACT: Mick Klemesrud at (515)
281-8653.
DES MOINES – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources and the State Fire Marshal’s office are investigating a fire at the Charles “Butch” Olofson shooting range that began Friday evening. The fire caused an undetermined amount of damage and is still smoldering.
The fire occurred on the 100 yard shooting range in the berm area bullet trap behind the target. The berm is made from compressed and baled tires causing an intensely hot fire that damaged the steel framework and roof of the bullet trap.
Fire departments from
The Charles “Butch” Olofson shooting range is adjacent to
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EPA ANNOUNCEMENT WILL NOT AFFECT NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT
PLAN DEADLINES FOR
MEDIA CONTACT: Ken Hessenius, supervisor of the DNR
Spencer field office, at (712) 262-4177.
DES MOINES – The DNR announced today that federal
delays in requiring livestock and poultry producers to submit nutrient
management plans will not affect the state deadline of
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced
May 4 that they plan to delay the deadline for requiring nutrient management
plans. The decision will move the deadline from
“Don’t put it off,” said Randy Clark, a DNR attorney. “The July 31 deadline is required by state statute, so it would take a change in state law to change the date that these plans need to be in place.”
A nutrient management plan (NMP) is required for open feedlots that have 1,000 or more animal units. That is equal to 1,000 beef cattle or 700 mature dairy cattle.
A few other producers need a nutrient management plan, but only if they are required to have a national pollutant discharge elimination system or NPDES permit.
Livestock producers need to start using the plans on or before July 31. They need to have the plans approved by the DNR before removing or land-applying any manure or feedlot nutrients.
“Producers need to start on these plans now,
because they will take some time to develop,”
“There’s also a requirement to notify the public and we will be sending out letters to about 150 producers soon to help them develop the public notices. It will take about 40 days for the notice to be published and the public to have time to comment on the nutrient management plans,” he said.
Producers can find a form for the plan (DNR form 542-2021) on the DNR Web site at http://www.iowadnr.com/afo/forms.html or by calling their nearest DNR field office.
More forms, including recordkeeping forms, are
available on the Iowa Manure Management Action Group (IMMAG) Web page. These
forms can be found at: http://extension.agron.iastate.edu/immag/ppr.html#of.
Use of these specific forms is not required by the DNR, but the
information must be recorded and reported.
DNR environmental specialists can also answer questions about the form and the requirements. The DNR has environmental field offices in the following areas:
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A list of nutrient management plan writers is also available on the IMMAG Web page at: http://extension.agron.iastate.edu/immag/sp.html.
Producers who have developed a comprehensive nutrient management plan to secure federal cost-share can submit that plan to the DNR as a substitute for the NMP. It must meet all the nutrient management plan requirements to be approved by the DNR.
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