Iowa Code Title XI. Natural Resources [Chs. 455-485] § 459.313A. Application of manure on land--snow covered ground and frozen ground

a. The person must contact the department by telephone prior to the application.

b. The person must apply the liquid manure on land identified for such application in a manure management plan submitted by the owner of the confinement feeding operation to the department as provided in section 459.312. The owner of the confinement feeding operation must identify the land in the manure management plan prior to the application. The owner must identify the land in the original manure management plan or in the next updated manure management plan required to be submitted to the department following the application.

c. The liquid manure must be applied on a field with a phosphorus index rating of two or less.

d. Any surface water drain tile intake that is on land in the owner's manure management plan and located down gradient of the application must be temporarily blocked beginning not later than the time that the liquid manure is first applied and ending not earlier than two weeks after the completion of the application.

a. An immediate need to comply with section 459.311, subsection 1, caused by the improper design or management of the manure storage structure, including but not limited to a failure to properly account for the volume of the manure to be stored.

b. Liquid manure originating from a manure storage structure constructed or expanded on or after July 1, 2009, if the manure storage structure has a capacity to store manure for less than one hundred eighty days.

a. The application of liquid manure originating from a small animal feeding operation.

b. The application of liquid manure and injection into the soil or incorporation within the soil on the same date.