Minnesota Administrative Rules

6115.0120 WATER APPROPRIATION PROCESSING FEE EXEMPTIONS.

The following water appropriation permit actions are exempt from amendment or transfer fees:

A.

a change in mailing address;

B.

a change of authorized agent when land ownership has not changed;

C.

an assignment of a permit within the immediate family;

D.

a change in pump location on surface water sources for the same operation;

E.

an addition of a new well that replaces an old well for the same permitted operation and is completed at a similar depth in the same aquifer;

F.

a decrease in the permitted pumping rate, amount of water authorized, or irrigated acreage;

G.

an increase in the permitted pumping rate within ten percent;

H.

an increase in the permitted appropriation within ten percent of the annual authorization for nonirrigation permits; or

I.

an increase of less than 30 acres in the number of permitted irrigated acres.

Any amendments or transfers that exceed the exemptions in items A to I require a processing fee under part 6115.0065.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 105.44

History:

13 SR 2825

Published Electronically:

June 11, 2008