159A.6B - TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.
159A.6B TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.
1. The office shall assist persons in revitalizing rural regions
of this state, by providing technical assistance to new or existing
renewable fuel production facilities, including the establishment and
operation of facilities, and specifically facilities which create
coproducts, including coproducts which support livestock production
operations. The office shall consult with the Iowa corn growers
association and the Iowa soybean association. The office shall
provide planning assistance which may include evaluations of methods
to most profitably manage these operations. The business planning
assistance shall provide for adequate environmental protection of
this state's natural resources from the operation of the facility.
2. The office may execute contracts in order to provide technical
support and outreach services for purposes of assisting and educating
interested persons as provided in this section. The office may also
contract with a consultant to provide part or all of these services.
The office may require that a person receiving assistance pursuant to
this section contribute up to fifty percent of the amount required to
support the costs of contracting with the consultant to provide
assistance to the person. The office shall assist the person in
completing any technical information required in order to receive
assistance by the department of economic development pursuant to the
value-added agriculture component of the grow Iowa values financial
assistance program established pursuant to section 15G.112.
3. The office shall cooperate with the department of economic
development, the office of energy independence, and regents
institutions or other universities and colleges in order to carry out
this section. Section History: Recent Form
94 Acts, ch 1119, §21; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §198; 2009 Acts, ch 108,
§11, 41; 2009 Acts, ch 123, §29
Referred to in § 159A.7