Definitions

Definitions. Definitions. In this chapter: (1) “Applicant” means a person who submits an application for a diversion approval. (2) “Community within a straddling county” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (d) , Stats. (3) “Consumptive use” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (e) , Stats. (3m) “Department” means the department of natural resources. (4) “Diversion” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (h) , Stats. “Diversion” includes diversions to straddling communities, diversions to communities within a straddling county and intrabasin transfers. (5) “Diversion area” means the area outside the Great Lakes basin that is approved by the department to be served water from the Great Lakes basin. (6) “Great Lakes basin” means the watershed of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River upstream from Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, within the jurisdiction of the parties. The boundary of the Great Lakes basin is derived from the subbasin (8-digit) 4th level hydrologic units from the digital Watershed Boundary Dataset for the State of Wisconsin, consisting of geo-referenced digital data and associated attributes created in accordance with the “FGDC Proposal, Version 1.0 - Federal Standards for Delineation of Hydrologic Unit Boundaries 3/01/02.” (7) “Great Lakes council” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (jj) , Stats. (8) “Intrabasin transfer” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (jm) , Stats. (9) “Person” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (nm) , Stats. (10) “Preexisting diversion” means a diversion of water from the Great Lakes basin into a watershed outside of the Great Lakes basin that existed prior to the ratification of the Great Lakes Compact on December 8, 2008, and received an approval from the department under s. 281.344 (3m) or (4) , Stats. (11) “Proposal” means a request for a new or increased diversion of Great Lakes water. (12) “Public water supply” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (pm) , Stats. (13) “Public water supply system” means a physically connected system of treatment, storage, and distribution facilities that distributes public water supply that is treated for human consumption, and that is owned by a city, village, county, town, town sanitary district, utility district, public inland lake and rehabilitation district, or municipal water district, joint local water authorities, or a privately owned water utility serving any of these entities. (14) “Reasonable water supply alternative” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (ps) , Stats. (15) “Regional body” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (q) , Stats. (16) “Sewer service area” has the meaning given in s. NR 110.03 (29t) . (17) “Source watershed” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (r) , Stats. (18) “Straddling community” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (t) , Stats. (19) (a) “Straddling county” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (tm) , Stats. (b) A county’s boundaries as of December 13, 2005, shall be used to determine whether the county is a straddling county. (20) “Technical review” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (u) , Stats. (21) “Water loss” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (wm) , Stats. (22) “Water supply service area” means an area in which the public water supply system provides water or may provide water to the public during the planning period covered by the water supply service area plan. (23) “Water supply service area plan” means a document developed in compliance with s. 281.348 , Stats., and ch. NR 854 . (24) “Waters of the state” has the meaning given in s. 281.01 (18) , Stats. (25) “Withdraw” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (y) , Stats. (26) “Withdrawal” has the meaning given in s. 281.346 (1) (z) , Stats.