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Topsoils or soil blends imported to a building site to serve as topsoil shall not be mined from the following locations:
  1. Sites that are prime farmland, unique farmland, or farmland of statewide importance.
  2. Greenfield sites where development is prohibited by Section 402.8.
Exception: Soils shall be permitted to be imported from the locations in Items 1 and 2 where those soils are a byproduct of a building and building site development process provided that imported soils are reused for functions comparable to their original function.
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