Under IC 4-22-2-24, notice is hereby given that on January 11, 2022, at 9:30 a.m., at the Office of Indiana State Chemist, Purdue University, 175 South University Street, West Lafayette, Indiana, the State Chemist of the State of Indiana will hold a public hearing on a proposed rule to regulate the distribution and storage of manure based fertilizer and also establish fees for the distribution of manure based fertilizer.

The proposed rules would require a business that wishes to distribute a manure based commercial fertilizer product to register that product and pay a tonnage fee based on distribution up to $1,000 on a semiannual basis.

Copies of these rules and any data or analyses referenced in a justification of requirements or costs on regulated entities are now on file at the Office of Indiana State Chemist, Purdue University, 175 South University Street, West Lafayette, Indiana and are open for public inspection, or at: http://www.oisc.purdue.edu/oisc_rules_regs_laws.html.

Public comments may be made at the meeting, submitted via email to pearsonm@purdue.edu, or mailed to the address below before the close of business on January 11, 2022: