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Bill would exempt small backyard chicken coops from feedlot definition; Wright County seeks clarity
Summary
Senate File 514, offered by Sen. Hoffman and Wright County officials, would move the MPCA feedlot definition into statute and exempt small chicken coops (proposal cited 12 birds) from feedlot regulation; committee laid the measure over for further drafting and stakeholder work.
Senate File 514, a bill to clarify the definition of "feedlot" and exempt small backyard chicken coops from feedlot regulation, was presented to the Senate Environment Committee on April 1 and laid over for further work with stakeholders.
Senator Hoffman introduced the proposal as a response to local confusion about whether small residential chicken coops meet the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's administrative definition of feedlot. Wright County officials told the…
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