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Committee advances bill streamlining CFO permits after pushback over IDEM authority and testing costs
Summary
Lawmakers approved House Bill 13‑55 as amended to set predictable permitting timelines for confined feeding operations and to limit IDEM’s power to require design changes when a licensed professional engineer has certified plans; environmental groups opposed portions of the measure, and industry witnesses described what they called costly and inconsistent IDEM practices.
Representative Kendall Culp presented House Bill 13‑55 and Amendment No. 2 to revise confined feeding operation (CFO) permitting. The amendment clarifies timelines, offers a pre‑application meeting pathway to trigger a 90‑day review clock, protects certified professional engineer (PE) designs from being changed by IDEM staff if they comply with statute, adjusts manure definitions, and clarifies that an agricultural zone inside a municipality does not automatically allow siting a confined feeding operation without local review.
Alex Goodnight, Deputy Legislative Director at the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM), told the committee the bill aims to improve clarity, communication and predictability for applicants and that IDEM is…
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