Bill Text: IA SF321 | 2011-2012 | 84th General Assembly | Enrolled

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

---

Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to wastewater discharges by on-farm processing operations. (Formerly SF 269.) Effective 7-1-11.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-12-31 - END OF 2011 ACTIONS [SF321 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2011-SF321-Enrolled.html

---

Senate File 321
AN ACT
RELATING TO WASTEWATER DISCHARGES BY ON-FARM PROCESSING
OPERATIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. Section 455B.171, Code 2011, is amended by adding
the following new subsections:
NEW SUBSECTION . 7A. “Food commodity” means any commodity
that is derived from an agricultural animal or crop, both
as defined in section 717A.1, which is intended for human
consumption in its raw or processed state.
a. A food commodity in its raw state for processing includes
but is not limited to milk, eggs, vegetables, fruits, nuts,
syrup, and honey.
b. A food commodity in its processed state includes but
is not limited to dairy products, pastries, pies, and meat or
poultry products.
NEW SUBSECTION . 14A. “On-farm processing operation” means
any place located on a farm where the form or condition of a
food commodity originating from that farm or another farm is
changed or packaged for human consumption, including but not
limited to a dairy, creamery, winery, distillery, cannery,
bakery, or meat or poultry processor.

Senate File 321, p. 2
Sec. 2. NEW SECTION . 455B.172A On-farm processing
operations.
1. The department shall adopt by rule standards for the
disposal of wastewater from an on-farm processing operation.
These standards shall provide for but are not limited to
disposal by all of the following:
a. By land application if all of the following apply:
(1) The volume of wastewater produced by the on-farm
processing operation is less than one thousand five hundred
gallons per day.
(2) The wastewater is land-applied by a person licensed by
the department under section 455B.172.
(3) The application rate does not exceed thirty thousand
gallons per acre per year.
(4) The application rate does not exceed one thousand five
hundred gallons per acre per day.
(5) The standards for land application are consistent
with the rules for land application of septage that implement
section 455B.172.
b. At a publicly owned treatment works or other wastewater
treatment system with the permission of the owner of the
treatment works.
c. Through a subsurface absorption system in conformance
with applicable regulations of the United States environmental
protection agency.
d. Through a disposal system that meets all of the
following:
(1) The disposal system is located on the same site as the
on-farm processing operation.
(2) The disposal system is constructed in conformance with a
permit issued by the department.
(3) For a disposal system that discharges wastewater to
a water of the United States, the system must be operated in
conformance with a national pollutant discharge elimination
system permit issued by the department under section 455B.197.
2. The department shall adopt by rule standards for the
disposal of septage from an on-farm processing operation.
The rules shall provide that the septage may be discharged
to a permitted septage lagoon or septage drying bed with the
permission of the owner of the septage system.
Sec. 3. Section 455B.197, Code 2011, is amended by adding
the following new subsection:
NEW SUBSECTION . 5. The owner of an on-farm processing

Senate File 321, p. 3
operation that produces less than one thousand five hundred
gallons per day of wastewater shall not be assessed a fee by
the department under this section.
______________________________
JOHN P. KIBBIE
President of the Senate
______________________________
KRAIG PAULSEN
Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
is known as Senate File 321, Eighty-fourth General Assembly.
______________________________
MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
Secretary of the Senate
Approved _______________, 2011
______________________________
TERRY E. BRANSTAD
Governor