Bill > HB1355

This bill establishes a preapplication process for confined feeding operations, requiring potential applicants to submit engineered designs for manure treatment facilities, control facilities, or animal feeding structures to the department for review and a meeting within 30 days, with a 45-day window for resubmitting revised plans if requested, and a 90-day determination period thereafter. It also mandates that the department refund an application fee if a determination is not made within 90 days, and clarifies that certain confined feeding operations producing solid manure from strawpack or dry pack bedding will not be required to use equipment designed for liquid manure, provided they control runoff. Furthermore, the bill prohibits the department from forcing existing permit holders expanding their operations to update previously approved facilities or structures if the expansion doesn't impact them, and sets requirements for earthen berms at manure storage facilities, including stabilization, maintenance for visual inspection, and restrictions on vegetation placement to ensure integrity. Finally, the department will designate an employee as a point of contact for application information and distribute this contact to all operating confined feeding operations.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1355/details