266.47 - RESEARCH RESULTS -- INTERIM AND FINAL REPORTS.
266.47 RESEARCH RESULTS -- INTERIM AND FINAL
REPORTS.
1. Iowa state university of science and technology shall prepare
and submit reports as follows:
a. The university shall submit an interim report to the
general assembly each year on or before January 15, through January
15, 2013. The interim report shall do all of the following:
(1) Describe the university's progress in achieving the purposes
of section 266.42, and detail its efforts in carrying out the
livestock odor mitigation efforts described in this division.
(2) Evaluate applied and basic research projects being conducted
or completed and provide estimates for their completion.
(3) Make any recommendation for improving, continuing, or
expanding livestock odor mitigation efforts and for disseminating the
results of those efforts to livestock producers.
b. The university shall submit a final report to the general
assembly on or before six months after the completion of its research
projects as provided in section 266.41. The final report shall
include a summary of efforts, the university's findings and
conclusions, and recommendations necessary to carry out the purposes
of section 266.42.
2. Nothing in this section prevents the university, or any
individual researcher employed by or affiliated with the university,
from compiling information obtained, submitted, and maintained as the
result of a livestock odor mitigation effort as provided in section
266.42 involving a specific livestock operation, and publishing that
information as part of the report so long as the information cannot
be used to identify a livestock producer or livestock operation
without the consent of the livestock producer as provided in section
266.46.
3. All information obtained by the university in connection with
a research project shall be available for public examination and
copying as provided in chapter 22, subject to the exceptions of
section 22.7, so long as the information cannot be used to identify
the livestock producer or livestock operation as provided in section
266.46. Section History: Recent Form
2008 Acts, ch 1174, §8, 13 Footnotes
Implementation of §266.40--266.49 is contingent upon receipt of
sufficient funds by Iowa state university; 2008 Acts, ch 1174, §13