Wisconsin Administrative Code

NR 206.10 Groundwater monitoring. (1) DESIGN The design criteria and construction standards for a groundwater monitoring well shall conform to s. NR 110.25 (5) and ch. NR 141. (2) CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS. (a) Approval of plans and specifications for groundwater monitoring wells…

NR 207.001 Definitions. In this chapter: (1) “Criteria” or “criterion” has the meaning established in 40 CFR 131.3 (b). (2) “Loading" means the concentration or amount of a parameter within a discharge multiplied by the flow of that discharge. Note: Under implementation procedure…

NR 207.01 Purpose and applicability. (1) PURPOSE. The purpose of this subchapter is to establish implementation procedures for the antidegradation policy in s. NR 102.05 (1) (a). This subchapter sets procedures applicable to proposed new or increased discharges to outstanding res…

NR 207.011 Purpose and applicability.

NR 207.02 Definitions. In addition to the definitions in ch. NR 205, the following definitions apply to this chapter: (1) “Assimilative capacity” means the difference between the water quality criterion for a substance identified in ch. NR 102 or 105 and the existing level of tha…

NR 207.021 Definitions.

NR 207.03 Antidegradation evaluation procedure. (1) GENERAL. When the department promulgates a less stringent criterion for a non-BCC pursuant to s. NR 105.02 (2) or revises a secondary value for a non-BCC due to an updated scientific database, any subsequent requests for increas…

NR 207.031 Antidegradation procedures for individual WPDES permits. Subchapter II — Antibacksliding NR 207.10 Purpose and applicability. NR 207.11 Definitions. NR 207.12 Antibacksliding. Note: Corrections made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats., Register, August, 1997, No. 500. (…

NR 207.04 Fish and aquatic life waters. (1) APPLICATION INFORMATION. Persons proposing a new or increased discharge to fish and aquatic life waters shall provide documentation for the following: (a) An assessment of existing treatment capability which demonstrates: 1. Any of the …

NR 207.041 General permit antidegradation review. (1) GENERAL PERMIT ISSUANCE OR REISSUANCE. The department shall apply the antidegradation policy and implementation procedures set out in this section for each new, reissued, modified, or revoked and reissued general WPDES permit …

NR 207.05 Determining significant lowering of water quality. (1) Indicator parameters. For each proposed new or increased discharge the department shall determine a list of water quality parameters for which the significant lowering of water quality test will be applied. The list…

NR 207.10 Purpose and applicability. (1) PURPOSE. The purpose of this subchapter is to establish antibacksliding requirements for the WPDES permit program. (2) APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies to any permittee that requests in a WPDES permit modification or reissuance appli…

NR 207.11 Definitions. In addition to the definitions in ch. NR 205, the following definitions apply to this subchapter: (1) “Best professional judgment limitation” means technology based effluent limitations established on a case-by-case basis by the permit drafter when there ar…

NR 207.12 Antibacksliding. (1) GENERAL. Except as provided in this section, effluent limitations or standards in a reissued, revoked and reissued, or modified permit shall be at least as stringent as the effective effluent limitations or standards in the previous permit. If one o…

NR 208.01 Purpose. This chapter implements ch. 283, Stats., encourages and, where necessary, requires owners of publicly and privately owned domestic wastewater treatment works to take necessary actions to avoid water quality degradation, and prevent violations of WPDES permit ef…

NR 208.02 Applicability. This chapter applies on January 1, 2005, to owners of publicly and privately owned domestic wastewater treatment works when required in the owner[s WPDES permit, except for sanitary sewer collection systems subject to a WPDES permit. This chapter applies …

NR 208.03 Definitions. In addition to the definitions and abbreviations in chs. NR 110, 114, 140, 162, 204, 205, 206, 210, 214 and chs. 160 and 283, Stats., the following definitions apply to terms in this chapter: (1) XAction response planY means the proposed corrective actions …

NR 208.04 Compliance maintenance annual report. (1) PURPOSE. The compliance maintenance annual report describes wastewater management activities, physical conditions and performance of the treatment works during the previous calendar year. It provides a treatment works owner and …

NR 208.05 CMAR point and grading system. (1) APPLICABLE SECTIONS. The department shall determine which CMAR sections under s. NR 208.04 (5) apply to each treatment works and shall make the sections available electronically to the treatment works owner no later than April 30 of ea…

NR 208.06 CMAR review and responses. (1) OWNER REVIEW. (a) The owner of the wastewater treatment works shall review and complete all applicable CMAR sections. The owner submitting a CMAR under this chapter shall provide a response for individual CMAR sections when required pursua…

NR 21.01 Purpose. (1) This chapter, along with other applicable rules and statutes, regulates fishing in the WisconsinMinnesota boundary waters. (2) The rules contained in this chapter are not intended to, nor do they authorize, the sale or introduction into interstate commerce f…

NR 21.015 License waiver. (1) On the first Saturday and consecutive Sunday of June and the third Saturday and consecutive Sunday of January each year, no fishing license is required to fish the Wisconsin-Minnesota boundary waters. (2) The license waiver of sub. (1) does not apply…

NR 21.02 Definitions. Except as otherwise specifically defined in the statutes, the following terms, for the purposes of this chapter, are defined as follows: (1) “Bait net” has the meaning given in s. NR 22.02 (1). (2) “Buffalo net” has the meaning given in s. NR 22.02 (2). (3) …

NR 21.03 Reciprocity, sport fishing or spearing and dip netting. All residents of Wisconsin and Minnesota holding a resident fishing license from their respective states or residents other than Wisconsin and Minnesota holding an angling or sport fishing license issued by either s…

NR 21.04 Sport fishing; seasons and limits. All regulations applicable to sport fishing are as follows unless expressly provided elsewhere in this chapter or the law. (23.11, 29.041) the chapter was last published. 3 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Kind of fish and locality NR 21…

NR 21.05 Sale of fish. (1) Only rough fish legally taken during the open season by hook and line, spear, bow and arrow, or crossbow, or by hand may be sold, purchased, bartered, offered for sale, or under the control or possession of any person for the purpose of sale or barter. …

NR 21.06 Sport fishing restrictions. (1) Except as otherwise expressly provided, only the following methods or manners of fishing shall be lawful. Any person: (29.041) (a) May fish for fish with no more than 3 hooks, baits or lures. (b) May use landing nets and a gaff only for th…

NR 21.065 Fishing near dams. Notwithstanding ss. NR 21.11 and 21.15, which remain in effect, no person may fish within 200 feet of any fishway, lock or dam by any means other than hook and line.

NR 21.07 Ice fishing shelters. Buildings, vehicles, tents, fish shanties or similar enclosures may be used on the ice for fishing purposes on the Mississippi river, Lake St. Croix, the St. Croix river and St. Louis river as defined in s. NR 21.02 (39) from the time the ice forms;…

NR 21.08 Minnow nets and traps. Except as provided in ss. NR 20.20 and 21.06 (1) (d), no person may take fish other than smelt with nets or traps in the St. Louis river. No person may take minnows or shiners from the St. Louis river. Only those minnow seines, minnow dip nets, cas…

NR 21.09 Carp as bait. Live carp taken and possessed for the purpose of bait shall only be transported live by boat or other floating conveyance while in possession on WisconsinMinnesota boundary waters. Subchapter III — Commercial Fishing

NR 21.10 Boundary water, commercial fishing restriction. For the purpose of fishing under a commercial fishing license or the taking of turtles, in the Wisconsin-Minnesota boundary waters, licensed commercial fishers and agents of the licensees are restricted to the state boundar…

NR 21.11 Commercial fishing restrictions. (1) GENERAL RESTRICTIONS. No person may conduct commercial fishing operations unless he or she has first obtained the appropriate license or licenses required under ss. 29.523 and 29.533, Stats. A commercial fisher shall carry each licens…

NR 21.13 Turtles. (1) APPLICABILITY. This section applies to the taking and possession of turtles in the WisconsinMinnesota boundary waters. (2) SEASONS; POSSESSION AND DAILY BAG LIMITS. No person may take turtles on the Wisconsin-Minnesota boundary waters except during the open …

NR 21.14 Transportation of fish and turtles. (1) Any properly licensed resident or nonresident holder of an angling or commercial fishing license from the state of Minnesota having lawfully taken fish or turtles in the boundary waters described in this chapter during the open sea…

NR 21.15 Fish refuges. (1) No person may take, catch, disturb, kill or fish for fish of any variety in any manner from March 15 through April 25 both dates inclusive, in, on or along the following described water areas: (23.09) (a) La Crosse county. (No. 32) That part of the Miss…

NR 21.16 Taking of fish by and for the department. Nothing in this chapter prohibits the department by contract or otherwise from carrying out its management of these boundary waters as required by the law or department policy. (23.09, 29.401, 29.421, 29.424, 29.417) History: Cr.…

NR 21.17 Conflicting rules. Where there are differences in elements of the boundary waters regulations of Minnesota and Wisconsin, anglers, commercial fishers and persons taking turtles shall comply with the regulations of the state in whose territorial waters they are fishing in…

NR 210.01 Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to establish effluent limitations, performance requirements and monitoring provisions to be used in permits for discharges from publicly owned treatment works and privately owned domestic sewage treatment works. History: Cr. Regis…

NR 210.02 Applicability. This chapter applies to all publicly owned treatment works and privately owned domestic sewage treatment works. History: Cr. Register, October, 1986, No. 370, eff. 11-1-86; CR 12-027: r. and

NR 210.03 Definitions. The definitions of terms and meanings of abbreviations used in this chapter are set forth in s. 283.01, Stats., chs. NR 205 and 218, and as follows: (1) X7-day averageY means the arithmetic mean of pollutant parameter values for samples collected in a perio…

NR 210.035 Applicability. NR 210.04 Monitoring requirements. NR 210.05 Effluent limitations. NR 210.06 Disinfection requirements. NR 210.07 Effluent limitation variance categories. Subchapter IV — Overflows and Sewage Collection Systems NR 210.19 Applicability. NR 210.20 Permits …

NR 210.04 Monitoring requirements. (1) Discharges subject to the provisions of this chapter shall at a minimum monitor the effluent for BOD5, SS, and pH. (2) Influent wastewater strengths and volumes shall be characterized at treatment facilities subject to the monitoring provisi…

NR 210.05 Effluent limitations. Publicly owned treatment works and privately owned domestic sewage treatment works shall meet as a minimum the effluent limits specified in this section. (1) Where the receiving water is classified as fish and aquatic life in s. NR 102.04 (3): (a) …

NR 210.06 Disinfection requirements. (1) DISINFECTION REQUIREMENTS. Disinfection shall be required of dischargers subject to the provisions of this chapter when the department determines, based on the information identified in sub. (3), the discharge of wastewater poses a risk to…

NR 210.07 Effluent limitation variance categories. Modifications to limitations specified in s. NR 210.05 (1) to (3) may be approved as follows: (1) INDUSTRIAL WASTES. For publicly owned treatment facilities receiving effluent from certain categories of industries, the applicable…

NR 210.08 Emergency operation. All sewage treatment facilities that are subject to the provisions of this chapter shall be equipped for emergency operation. Emergency power shall be provided in accordance with s. NR 110.15 (5) (d). Sufficient emergency power shall be provided suc…

NR 210.09 Analytical methods and laboratory requirements. Methods used for analysis of influent and effluent samples shall be as set forth in ch. NR 219 unless alternative methods are specified in the WPDES discharge permit. History: Cr. Register, October, 1986, No. 370, eff. 11-…

NR 210.10 Requirements for certified or registered laboratory. Bacteriological analyses of groundwater samples, and all radiological analyses, shall be performed by the state laboratory of hygiene or at a laboratory certified or approved by the department of agriculture, trade an…

NR 210.11 Compliance maintenance annual report (CMAR). The CMAR shall be submitted to the department on or before June 30 of each year and shall meet all applicable requirements.