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1997 - 1998 LEGISLATURE
March 12, 1998 - Introduced by Senators Clausing and Burke, cosponsored by
Representative Black. Referred to Committee on Agriculture and
Environmental Resources.
SB500,1,2
1An Act to create 281.165 of the statutes;
relating to: limiting the establishment
2or expansion of certain livestock operations.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law requires the department of natural resources (DNR) to promulgate
rules containing performance standards and prohibitions designed to limit water
pollution from agricultural facilities and agricultural practices that are nonpoint
(diffuse) sources of water pollution. The law also requires the department of
agriculture, trade and consumer protection (DATCP) to promulgate rules containing
conservation practices to implement the performance standards and prohibitions
established by DNR. This bill prohibits the establishment of new livestock
operations with 750 or more animal units and the expansion of existing livestock
operations so that they have 750 or more animal units until DNR and DATCP have
promulgated these rules. An animal unit is a measure developed by DNR. A beef
cow weighing 1,000 pounds or more is one animal unit. Each kind of farm animal
is assigned a value relative to a beef cow. A livestock operation is a feedlot or other
facility where animals are fed or maintained.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SB500, s. 1
3Section
1. 281.165 of the statutes is created to read:
SB500,2,1
1281.165 Moratorium on certain livestock operations. (1) In this section:
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(a) "Animal unit" has the meaning given in s. NR 243.04 (3), Wis. Adm. Code.
SB500,2,33
(b) "Livestock operation" has the meaning given in s. 281.16 (2).
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4(2) No person may establish a livestock operation with 750 or more animal
5units or expand a livestock operation that has fewer than 750 animal units on the
6effective date of this subsection .... [revisor inserts date], so that the livestock
7operation has 750 or more animal units until rules required under s. 281.16 (3) (a)
8and (b) are in effect.
