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Committee considers maintaining county feedlot grants; amendment adopted and bill laid over
Summary
House File 1846 would maintain a base appropriation for delegated county feedlot programs at $2,959,000 and increase the minimum grant to $10,000 per county; the committee adopted an author's amendment to correct the dollar amount and increase county minimums, heard testimony from county feedlot officers and the MPCA, then laid the bill over.
Vice Chair Burkel presented House File 1846 to maintain base funding for the county feedlot program and offered an author's (A1) amendment correcting the dollar amount to $2,959,000 and increasing the minimum per-county grant from $7,500 to $10,000. The committee adopted the A1 amendment by voice vote.
Mark Kipp (Kep in the transcript), county feedlot officer in Douglas County and president of the Minnesota Association of County Feedlot Officers, testified that delegated county staff register, inspect and permit many of the state's feedlots and serve as the first point of contact for producers. He said delegated counties…
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