Iowa Environmental Council and ELPC Call for Department of Natural Resources to Protect Floodplains From Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Pollution
May 05, 2022
May 05, 2022
DES MOINES, Iowa, May 5 (TNSPol) -- The Iowa Environmental Council issued the following news on May 4, 2022:
The Iowa Environmental Council (IEC) and Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) today filed a petition for rulemaking with the Environmental Protection Commission, seeking to adopt a floodplain map into state law. The legislature charged the Commission with adopting a floodplain map in 2002 to implement restrictions on feedlot siting, but the Commission never did so.
The Iowa Environmental Council (IEC) and Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) today filed a petition for rulemaking with the Environmental Protection Commission, seeking to adopt a floodplain map into state law. The legislature charged the Commission with adopting a floodplain map in 2002 to implement restrictions on feedlot siting, but the Commission never did so.