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SF 1659 Senate Long Description

E Establishing certain conditions for pollution control agency issuance of animal feedlot permits; providing a permanent exemption for certain livestock owners from feedlot or manure management requirements on certain pasture land under certain conditions; prohibiting the PCA from requiring feedlot permittees to maintain records of rainfall or snowfall as a condition of receiving a permit under certain conditions; requiring permittee notice to the PCA of feedlot ownership or control transfers, prohibiting the PCA commissioner from unreasonably withholding or delaying approval of transfer requests; requiring the environmental quality board (EQB) to review and recommend modifications to environmental rules relating to phased actions and animal agriculture facilities and report recommendations to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the PCA to grant extensions for applications for national pollutant discharge elimination or state disposal system permits upon feedlot owner request; authorizing the resumption of operation of unused feedlots in shoreland after obtaining a permit; authorizing counties completing modified level one feedlot inventories to report the information to the agency in aggregate, exception, feedlots included in the inventories to be considered registered under PCA rule; modifying the criteria used to determine the established date of operation for agricultural operations nuisance liability protection purposes; requiring the commissioner of the PCA to by a certain date allow alternative methods for disposal of milkhouse process wastewaters by certain smaller dairy operations (ra, ja)