Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES
Article 7 - ABANDONMENT AND TERMINATION
Section 5-7-5 - Reduction of an existing water right
Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 39, September 26, 2024
(a) In order to have an approval of application or water right reduced, the water right owner may file, at any time, a request to reduce any of the following:
(b) The request to reduce a water right shall be filed on a form prescribed by the chief engineer.
(c) The request to reduce shall be submitted in proper form and shall include the following information:
(d) A request solely to reduce the authorized place of use that will not affect the approval of application or water right in any other way shall be only required to be signed only by all of the owners of the authorized place of use that is proposed to be deleted.
(e) A reasonable request to reduce an approval of application or water right that is submitted in proper form shall be approved by the chief engineer unless it will cause the impairment of existing water rights or prejudicially and unreasonably affect the public interest. If the request to reduce the water right or approval of application is to remove a point of diversion, the approval shall reduce only that maximum annual quantity of water and maximum rate of diversion associated with the authorized point of diversion that is removed.
(f) A request to reduce an existing water right shall not be considered to be an application for a change pursuant to K.S.A. 82a-708b and amendments thereto, so no application fee shall be required.