Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 785 - Oklahoma Water Resources Board
Chapter 20 - Appropriation and Use of Stream Water
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
Section 785:20-1-6 - Who should file an application

(a) Any person, firm, corporation, state or federal governmental agency, or subdivision thereof, intending to acquire the right to beneficial use of any water shall, before commencing any construction for such purposes or before taking the same from any constructed works, make an application to the Board [82:105.9] for a permit to appropriate such water.

(b) Water for domestic use, as defined herein, is exempt from such filing: however, where domestic use of water from a federal reservoir operated by the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, is desired, an application must be on file with the Board before the Federal Government through the Corps of Engineers will grant an easement to cross government property.

(c) Unless otherwise determined by the Board, a permit to use water for hydroelectric power generation, navigation, recreation fish and wildlife, and other nonconsumptive instream uses is required only where the water used for such purpose is taken from reservoir storage.

(d) If an application is filed after non-domestic use of the water has begun, the application filing fee due for the type of permit requested as set forth in Chapter 5 of the Oklahoma Administrative Code, title 785, shall be doubled.