Coon v. North Dakota Department of Health

Crothers, Justice.

[¶1] Numerous landowners from the Buffalo area appeal from a district court judgment affirming the Department of Health’s decision to issue Rolling Green Family Farms an animal feeding operation (AFO) permit. The landowners argue the Department erred by issuing Rolling Green an 'AFO permit and by failing to reopen the public comment-period after Rolling Green provided further information to supplement its permit application. We affirm. ' ’

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[¶2] In September 2015 Rolling Green applied to the Department for a permit to operate an animal feeding operation, near Buffalo. The…