S.C. Code Regs. § 61-119.D.1

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 34, August 23, 2024

Section 61-119.D.1 - Application Requirements

An existing surface water withdrawer must submit a permit application on a form to be provided by the Department within one hundred and eighty (180) days of the effective date of this regulation. Any existing surface water withdrawer submitting an application more than one hundred and eighty (180) days after the effective date of this regulation will be considered a new surface water withdrawer. At a minimum, the application must contain the following information:

a. the name, address, phone number(s), principal place of business of the person applying for the permit and, if applicable, the name and address of the agent for the applicant;

b. the location of each of the applicant's intakes, including:

i. name of source waterbody;

ii. latitude and longitude of intake;

iii. a map showing the withdrawal point(s) on a 1:24,000 scale USGS quadrangle or equivalent;

iv. the county in which the intake is located;

v. type of source waterbody, such as a stream, lake or estuary;

c. the place and nature of the proposed use of the surface water withdrawn;

d. the quantity of surface water requested for withdrawal, in million gallons per month, at each relevant withdrawal point, with supporting documentation, based on whichever of the following options is greatest as identified by the person applying for the permit:

i. documented historical water use;

ii. current permitted treatment capacity;

iii. design capacity of the intake structure as of January 1, 2011;

iv. design capacity of a pending intake structure permit application deemed administratively complete as of January 1, 2011;

v. an amount necessary to recover, through the sale of water, indebtedness from an outstanding bond or revenue certificate issued prior to January 1, 2011;

vi. for a publicly owned water utility, the safe yield of the utility's existing or permitted water supply only reservoir;

e. the method that will be used to measure the quantity of water that is withdrawn;

f. the location(s) where water withdrawn pursuant to the requested permit is returned to any surface water, including latitude and longitude and notation on a 1:24,000 USGS topographic map or equivalent, and the anticipated percent of water returned at each location;

g. any information necessary for the Department to assess a request for a permit length greater than the thirty (30) year period specified in item H.1.a. of this regulation (not to exceed a total of forty (40) years) or to assess the need for an additional period (not to exceed a total of fifty (50) years) for a municipality or other governmental body to retire a bond it issued to finance the construction of waterworks as specified in item H.1.b.; and

h. the estimated ratio between water withdrawn and consumptive use of water withdrawn.

S.C. Code Regs. 61-119.D.1