WATER APPROPRIATION PROCESSING FEE EXEMPTIONS

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 .