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Iowa flood plain maps don’t comply with law to protect waterways, group says

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Cedar Rapids Gazette: The Iowa Environmental Council wants to force the state’s Environmental Protection Commission to adopt flood plain maps to comply with a law that says animal-feeding operations can’t be built near waterways. “The EPC has had a statutory directive since 2002 to adopt a flood plain map. … It has not done so,” states the petition for rule-making filed Wednesday.