Minnesota Session Laws - 1996, Regular Session

  
    
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                            CHAPTER 443-H.F.No. 2332 
                  An act relating to water; modifying permit 
                  requirements; approving a consumptive use of water; 
                  amending Minnesota Statutes 1995 Supplement, section 
                  103G.245, subdivisions 3 and 5. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1995 Supplement, section 
        103G.245, subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
           Subd. 3.  [PERMIT APPLICATION.] Application for a public 
        waters work permit must be in writing to the commissioner on 
        forms prescribed by the commissioner.  The commissioner may 
        issue a state general permit to a governmental subdivision or to 
        the general public for classes of activities having minimal 
        impact upon public waters under which more than one project may 
        be conducted under a single permit. 
           Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1995 Supplement, section 
        103G.245, subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
           Subd. 5.  [DELEGATION OF PERMIT AUTHORITY TO LOCAL UNITS OF 
        GOVERNMENT.] The commissioner may adopt rules to identify 
        classes of activities in waterbasins and classes of watercourses 
        where the commissioner may delegate public waters work permit 
        authority to the appropriate county or municipality or to 
        watershed districts or watershed management organizations that 
        have elected to assert local authority over protected waters.  
        The public waters work permit authority must be delegated under 
        guidelines of the commissioner and the delegation must be done 
        by agreement with the involved county, municipality, watershed 
        district, or water management organization and in compliance 
        with section 103G.315. 
           Sec. 3.  [LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL OF CONSUMPTIVE USE OF 
        WATER.] 
           Pursuant to section 103G.265, subdivision 3, the 
        legislature approves the consumptive use under a permit of more 
        than 2,000,000 gallons per day average in a 30-day period in 
        Rosemount and Inver Grove Heights, subject to the commissioner 
        of natural resources making a determination that the water 
        remaining in the basin of origin will be adequate to meet the 
        basin's need for water and approval by the commissioner of 
        natural resources. 
           Sec. 4.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
           This act is effective the day following final enactment. 
           Presented to the governor April 4, 1996 
           Signed by the governor April 11, 1996, 11:30 a.m.