Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection General › Chapter NR 150 - Environmental Analysis And Review Procedures › Section NR 150.20 - Environmental analysis of department actions

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) PURPOSE. This
				section establishes the procedures to fulfill the requirements of s.
				1.11(2)
				(c), Stats.
(1m) MINOR ACTIONS. The following actions do
				not require environmental analysis under this chapter because they are minor
				actions:
(a) A real estate action, including
				property boundary establishment or modification, purchase, sale, easement,
				lease, designation, redesignation, or dedication.
(b) Development or construction of new
				department facilities that follows protocols.
(c) Natural resource management, timber
				management, or environmental restoration that follows protocols.
(d) The operation, repair, maintenance,
				removal, or in-kind replacement of existing department facilities that follows
				protocols.
(e) A research action
				that does not involve species introductions or substantive manipulation of
				resources, or that does involve species introductions or substantive
				manipulation of resources but follows protocols for doing so.
(f) A natural resource inventory or mapping
				action.
(g) Issuance of a grant or
				other financial assistance action.
(ge) Educational activities.
(gm) Model ordinances developed to assist
				municipalities in the creation of ordinances.
(gs) Consultation offered to third
				parties.
(h) Issuance of high
				capacity well approvals under s.
				281.34(2),
				Stats., except for wells under s.
				281.34(4),
				Stats.
(i) Issuance of high
				capacity well approvals under s.
				281.34(4),
				Stats., that are exempted from environmental analysis requirements under s.
				NR
				820.30(2) and (3).
(j) Reissuance, modification, revocation, and
				reissuance, or issuance of a routine or small-scale approval or
				action.
(jg) Routine variances from
				department rule requirements.
(jr)
				Denial, termination, revocation, or suspension of a grant, permit, license,
				approval, variance, land application site, or of any proposed
				activity.
(k) A routine or
				small-scale approval or action, or an approval or action associated with a
				permit.
(l) Confirmation of
				coverage under a general permit.
(m) Promulgation of emergency administrative
				rules under ch. 227, Stats.
(n) Any
				enforcement action.
(nm) Any
				emergency action that protects public health, safety, or welfare.
(o) Issuance of a minor source construction
				permit under ch. NR 406 or an operation permit renewal or revision under ss.
				285.60
				and
				285.62,
				Stats., for air emission sources.
(p) Issuance of licenses for servicing
				septage and approvals of county programs to regulate the disposal of septage
				under s.
				281.48,
				Stats.
(pe) Issuance of operator
				certifications under s.
				281.17(3),
				Stats., and licenses or registrations for well drillers and pump
				installers.
(pm) Approvals of
				geothermal heat exchange projects.
(ps) Approvals of additives to wastewater or
				cooling water.
(q) Issuance of
				general permits established by administrative code under ch. 30,
				Stats.
(qm) Issuance of aquatic
				plant management permits under ch. NR 109.
(r) Listing and delisting of an impaired
				water as defined in s.
				NR
				151.002(16m).
(s) Review and approval of municipal
				ordinances or approval of changes to municipal floodplain or shoreland-wetland
				maps.
(sc) Temporary drawdowns of
				dams under s.
				31.02,
				Stats.
(sg) Reconstruction and
				repairs of dams under ss.
				31.12,
				31.18,
				or
				31.185,
				Stats.
(sL) Transfer of dam
				ownership under s.
				31.14,
				Stats.
(sp) Dam inspections under
				s.
				31.19,
				Stats.
(st) Plan approvals for dams
				under s.
				31.33,
				Stats., and approvals of emergency action plans, inspection plans, operation
				and maintenance plans, dam failure analysis plans, or stability analysis plans
				under ch. NR 333.
(sx) Review and
				approval of hydrologic and hydraulic studies for floodplain mapping under s.
				NR
				116.07.
(t) Approval of construction plans and
				specifications under s.
				281.41, Stats.,
				for municipal and industrial pretreatment wastewater facilities, public water
				systems, and CAFO reviewable structures.
(u) Decisions related to evaluations of
				existing reviewable facilities and systems for concentrated animal feeding
				operations under ch. NR 243.
Note:
This subsection does not include the
				  concentrated animal feeding operations permit actions identified as integrated
				  analysis actions pursuant to s. NR 150.20(2) (a) 3w.
(ug) Approvals of land application or
				nutrient management plans or modifications to the plans.
(ur) Approvals of land application
				sites.
(v) Issuance of natural
				heritage inventory permits, approvals, or licenses under ch. NR 29 except for
				permits issued under s.
				29.604(6m),
				Stats.
(w) Issuance of an order or
				any action relating to the forest croplands or managed forest land programs
				under subch. I or VI of ch. 77, Stats.