Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session
Relating to: an exemption from permit requirements for certain riparian owners who remove material from the bed of a navigable water.
Natural resources, department of — Environmental protection Waterways and water power
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill allows a person who owns waterfront property (riparian owner) to
remove certain material from the bed of an inland navigable water without obtaining
a permit from the Department of Natural Resources. No permit is required if the
removal meets certain requirements, including that the removal occurs within the
riparian owner's riparian zone, which is a specified area extending waterward of the
shoreline; the removal is limited to a specified amount of material; the removal
occurs in a navigable water that is affected by a man-made impoundment; the
material removed is unconsolidated sediment that was deposited after the navigable
water was affected by the impoundment; and the removal is undertaken in order to
navigate from the shoreline of the riparian property to a specified water depth.