Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 850.03

Current through September 30, 2024

Section NR 850.03 - Definitions

In this chapter:

(1) "Department" means the department of natural resources.

(2) "Great Lakes basin" has the meaning specified in s. 281.346(1) (je), Stats.

Note: Section 281.346(1) (je), Stats., defines "Great Lakes basin" to mean "the watershed of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River upstream from Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, within the jurisdiction of the parties."

(3) "One property" has the meaning specified in s. NR 812.07(68).

Note: Section NR 812.07(68), Wisc. Adm. Code, defines "one property" to mean "all contiguous land controlled by one owner, lessee, or any other person having a possessory interest. Lands under single ownership bisected by highways or railroad right-of-ways are considered contiguous."

(4) "Person" has the meaning specified in s. 281.346(1) (nm), Stats.

Note: Section 281.346(1) (nm), Stats., defines "person" to mean "an individual or other entity, including a government or a nongovernmental organization, including any scientific, professional, business, nonprofit, or public interest organization or association that is neither affiliated with nor under the direction of a government."

(5) "Public water supply" has the meaning specified in s. 281.346(1) (pm), Stats.

Note: Section 281.346(1) (pm), Stats., defines "public water supply" to mean "water distributed to the public through a physically connected system of treatment, storage, and distribution facilities that serve a group of largely residential customers and that may also serve industrial, commercial, and other institutional customers."

(6) "Small business" has the meaning specified in s. 227.114(1), Stats.

Note: Section 227.114(1), Stats., defines "small business" to mean "a business entity, including its affiliates, which is independently owned and operated and not dominant in its field, and which employs 25 or fewer full-time employees or which has gross sales of less than $5,000,000."

(7) "Water supply system," has the meaning specified in s. 281.346(1) (wp), Stats.

Note: Section 281.346(1) (wp), Stats., defines "water supply system, when not preceded by `public'", to mean "one of the following:

1. Except as provided in subd.

2., the equipment handling water from the point of intake of the water to the first point at which the water is used. 2. For a system for providing a public water supply, the equipment from the point of intake of the water to the first point at which the water is distributed."

(8) "Waters of the state" has the meaning specified in s. 281.01(18), Stats.

Note: Section 281.01(18), Stats., defines "Waters of the state" to include "those portions of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior within the boundaries of this state, and all lakes, bays, rivers, streams, springs, ponds, wells, impounding reservoirs, marshes, watercourses, drainage systems and other surface water or groundwater, natural or artificial, public or private, within this state or its jurisdiction."

(9) "Withdraw" has the meaning specified in s. 281.346(1) (y), Stats.

Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 850.03

CR 10-061: cr. Register December 2010 No. 660, eff. 1-1-11.

Section 281.346(1) (y), Stats., defines "withdraw" to mean "to take water from surface water or groundwater".