Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 158 - Natural Resources Department
Chapter 6115 - PUBLIC WATER RESOURCES
PERMIT, INSPECTION, AND MONITORING FEES
Part 6115.0120 - WATER APPROPRIATION PROCESSING FEE EXEMPTIONS
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
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