Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Natural Resources
NR 300-399 - Environmental Protection - Water Regulation
Chapter NR 346 - Dredging contract fees
Section NR 346.03 - Definitions

(1) "Application fee" means a fee required by s. 30.28, Stats., consisting of a basic $10 fee plus a supplemental fee ranging from $5 to $65 in proportion to the project cost.

(2) "Bed material" means all earth, muck, sands and gravels, clays, marl, stones and boulders lying below the ordinary highwater mark of natural lakes.

(3) "Bonds" means surety or performance bonds guaranteeing performance of a contract or obligation. The amount of the bond is related to the restoration cost required to eliminate dangerous conditions or adverse environmental conditions caused by the improper removal of bed material from the bed of a natural lake.

(4) "Commercial removal fee" means a fee related to the commercial value of natural lake bed material proposed for use in a commercial venture equal to the royalty paid to owners of similar upland commercially valuable materials.

(5) "Natural lake" means any navigable, nonartificial body of water in a depression of land or a navigable, nonartificial widening of a river characterized by the general absence of any noticeable current from its inlet to its outlet. For purposes of this chapter, the term natural lake includes that portion of a raised lake that would exist in the absence of the artificial raising of the lake.

(6) "Noncommercial removal fee" means a minimal fee of $1 required as consideration for natural lake bed material removal projects where the material has no commercial value.

(7) "Outlying water" means Lakes Superior and Michigan, Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Sawyer's Harbor, and the Fox river from its mouth up to the dam at DePere.

(8) "Removal of bed material" means the excavation of materials by any means from the bed of a natural lake for the purposes of enhancement of a portion or all of the aquatic environment or for the purpose of gaining commercially valuable materials.