New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Env - Department of Environmental Services
Subtitle Env-Wt - Wetlands Programs
Chapter Env-Wt 500 - PROJECT-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

Current through Register No. 13, March 27, 2025

Statutory Authority: RSA 482-A:11, I

REVISION NOTE #1:

Pursuant to a rules reorganization plan approved by the Director of the Office of Legislative Services on September 7, 2005, Department rules in Wt 500 filed under Document #8341, effective 4-25-05, were editorially renumbered subsequently with subtitle Env-Wt denoting the wetlands program area. The title Wt was discontinued.

REVISION NOTE #2:

Document #12805, effective 12-15-19, adopted, or readopted with amendment from other chapters, all of the rules in Chapter Env-Wt 500, and changed the chapter heading from "Permit Procedure" to "Project-Specific Requirements."

Document #12805 reserved the Part numbers Env-Wt 501 through Env-Wt 508 and adopted Env-Wt 509, Env-Wt 510, Env-Wt 515, Env-Wt 517 through Env-Wt 520, Env-Wt 522, Env-Wt 523, and Env-Wt 525 through Env-Wt 527.

The provisions in the former Chapter Env-Wt 500 specified procedures and criteria for applications for regular permits, expedited minimum impact permits, permits by notification, seasonal dock notifications, emergency permits, small motor mineral dredging permits, and suspension, revocation, or modification of permits. These provisions were amended and moved by Document #12803, effective 12-15-19, to Env-Wt 300.

Document #12805 established in Chapter Env-Wt 500 project-specific criteria for activities for which approval under RSA 482-A might be needed, including aquatic vegetation control; water access structures (including beaches) (formerly in Env-Wt 304.08); breakwaters (formerly in Env-Wt 402.07); docking structures and accessory docking structures (formerly in Env-Wt 402.02-Env-Wt 402.06 and Env-Wt 402.08-Env-Wt 402.21); bank/shoreline stabilization; dug-in basins and boathouses; intake and outflow structures; trails, pathways, and boardwalks; other nondocking structures; ponds; forestry; utility projects (formerly in Env-Wt 304.13); agricultural activities; non-tidal dredging; residential and commercial; industrial development; restoration and enhancement activities; dams; and public highways. The provisions in Chapter Env-Wt 500 in Document #12805 apply primarily to non-tidal areas, although some sections were incorporated by reference into Env-Wt 600 on tidal areas by Document #12806, effective 12-15-19.

Document #12805 replaces all prior filings for rules in the former Chapters Wt 500 and Env-Wt 500.

The prior filings for former Chapter Wt 500 up through Document #8341, effective 4-25-05, included the following documents:

#2271, eff 1-10-83

#2924, eff 12-11-84

#3076, eff 7-26-85

#4806, eff 4-27-90

#5028, eff 12-20-90

#5401, INTERIM, eff 5-21-92, EXPIRED 9-18-92

#5550, eff 1-5-93

#5904, eff 9-30-94

#6219, eff 4-4-96

#6404, INTERIM, eff 12-21-96, EXPIRED 4-20-97

#6429, eff 1-18-97, INTERIM

#6498-B, eff 4-23-97

#7048, eff 6-29-99

#7158, eff 12-17-99

#7896, eff 5-22-03

#7988, eff 11-21-03

#8062, eff 3-13-04

#8165, eff 9-10-04

#8341, eff 4-25-05

The prior fillings for former Chapter Env-Wt 500 after Document #8341 was effective 4-25-05 included the following documents:

#8911, eff 6-20-07

#9717, eff 5-25-10

#10367, eff 6-26-13