Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 785 - Oklahoma Water Resources Board
Chapter 30 - Taking and Use of Groundwater
Subchapter 15 - Water Trapped in Producing Mines
Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 785:30-15-2 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this Subchapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"50% exceedance" means the median of mean daily flows.

"Act" means Enrolled Senate Bill No. 597 enacted by the First Regular Session of the 53rd Oklahoma Legislature, published at Chapter 374, Okla. Sess. Laws 2011 and codified primarily at 82 O.S. § 1020.2.

"Augmentation" means the beneficial discharge of water into a stream emanating from a Sensitive Basin or into a location where it is likely to flow or percolate into a Sensitive Basin.

"Consumptive use" means diversion of water from a mine pit that is not returned to the groundwater basin or subbasin, or to a mine pit or holding basin, or to a definite stream, or to the land surface from which surface runoff flows into a mine pit. The term "consumptive use" includes the estimated moisture content driven off or carried away with mined material transported off the mining site, plus the amount of evaporation from the mine pit that exceeds the amount of direct precipitation and surface runoff into the mine pit, plus any amounts for other proposed beneficial uses off the mining site. [82 O.S. § 1020.2(F) ]

"Groundwater augmentation basin" means an unlined pond or dedicated recharge structure used to allow water to infiltrate or recharge into a Sensitive Basin.

"Management Plan" means a site-specific water management and conservation plan that satisfies the provisions of 785:30-15-6.

"MEPS" means Mine's Equal Proportionate Share.

"Mine's Equal Proportionate Share" means the amount equivalent to the Sensitive Basin's equal proportionate share that is or would otherwise be allocated to the mine owner or operator for groundwater rights owned or leased by the owner or operator.

"ODOM" means the Oklahoma Department of Mines.

"Preexisting exemption" means an exemption from the provisions of the Act and this Subchapter as provided in 82 O.S. § 1020.2(C) and 785 :30-15-1(c).

"Pit water" means groundwater trapped or collecting in a producing mine pit that emanates from a Sensitive Basin.

"Sensitive Basin" means a sensitive sole source groundwater basin or subbasin.

"USGS" means the United States Geological Survey.

Added at 30 Ok Reg 884, eff 6-13-13