1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to agriculture; excluding runoff ponds from 
  1.3             certain feedlot regulations; amending Minnesota 
  1.4             Statutes 1998, section 116.07, by adding a subdivision.
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 116.07, is 
  1.7   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
  1.8      Subd. 7d.  [EXCLUSION.] In regulating livestock or animal 
  1.9   feedlots under subdivisions 7 to 7c, a county or the 
  1.10  commissioner must not include runoff ponds in the definition of 
  1.11  open air clay, earthen, or flexible membrane lined swine waste 
  1.12  lagoon.