| POLICY DIRECTIVE | ||||
| Division: | Water Resources Management | P.D. | W.R. 97-3 | |
| Prepared By: | Martin Goebel, P.Eng. | Issue Date: | Oct. 31, 1997 | |
| Approved By: | Martin Goebel | Director | Re-Issue Date: | July 24, 2000 |
| Approved By: | Ken Dominie | ADM | Review Date: | |
| Authorized By: | Paul L. Dean | DM | Superseded: | |
| Oliver Langdon | Minister | Cancelled: | ||
Application and Other Fees
This policy directive establishes tariffs or fees for providing administrative and technical services in the water resource management area.
Application and other fees have been collected under this policy and its successor since October 1996.
This section allows the minister to establish tariffs or fees to be paid to government for inspections, issuing licences, permits, grants, conveyances or in respect of applications for same and for searching of a register, file or document kept by the department.
Various permits and licences must be applied for under Sections 14, 36, 37, 39, 48, 58, and 61 of the Act. This Act covers water use licences, permits of waterworks and wastewater works, permits in connection with protected water supply areas and permits to alter a body of water.
| Municipal | |
| Municipality with population up to 500 persons | $100 |
| More than 500 up to 1,000 | $150 |
| More than 1,000 up to 5,000 | $250 |
| More than 5,000 | $500 |
| Commercial and Industrial | |
| Marine aquaculture | $100 |
| Commercial | $100 |
| Industrial | $500 |
| Cooling, washing dust or sand or gravel, and asphalt plants | $200 |
| Other temporary withdrawals (i.e. portable pumps) | $100 |
| Water Bottling and Other Finished Water Based Products | |
| Water removal from surface, groundwater sources or icebergs | $1,000 |
| Water Power | |
| Plants with capacity up to 5 MW | $2,000 |
| More than 5 up to 10 MW | $5,000 |
| More than 10 MW | $10,000 |
| Request for amendment of a water use licence | $50 |
| Water and/or Sewer Servicing | |
| 1 - 10 services | $200 |
| 11 - 25 services | $300 |
| 26 - 100 services | $500 |
| more than 100 services | $1,000 |
| Sewage pumping, outfall sewer, trunk or sewage treatment | |
| less than 25,000 litres per day | $200 |
| 25,001 - 100,000 litres per day | $300 |
| 100,001 - 5,000,000 litres per day | $500 |
| more than 5,000,000 litres per day | $1,000 |
| Water pumping/storage, transmission, or treatment | |
| less than 25,000 litres per day | $200 |
| 25,001 - 100,000 litres per day | $300 |
| 100,001 - 5,000,000 litres per day | $500 |
| more than 5,000,000 litres per day | $1,000 |
| Infrastructure upgrading | |
| Valve chambers | $200 |
| Pressure reducing chamber | $200 |
| Screen chamber | $200 |
| Hydrant installation | $200 |
| Enclosures – STP or lift station | $200 |
| Water main poly pigging | $200 |
| Temporary water/sewer bypass | $200 |
| Other works not noted above must be discussed with the appropriate regional office. The fee will be based upon project cost and complexity | |
| Application fee for protection of a public water supply area | $100 |
| Wellhead protection designation | $100 |
| Approval of development activity within a protected water supply area | $75 |
| Non domestic well permit | $100 |
| Permit for development activity in a wellhead protected water supply area | $100 |
| Bridges | |
| A bridge spanning less than 5 metres | $100 |
| A bridge spanning 5 metres or more but less than 10 metres | $200 |
| A bridge spanning 10 metres or more but less than 30 metres | $500 |
| A bridge spanning 30 metres or more | $1,000 |
| Culverts: | |
| A culvert less than 1200 mm in diameter or width | $50 |
| A culvert greater than or equal to 1200 mm in diameter or width | $100 |
| Dams and Related Works: | |
| A hydro-electric power project control dam | $2,000 |
| All other control dams including dykes and berms | $50 |
| A water intake greater than 100 mm or infiltration gallery | $500 |
| A pipe or conduit installed under any body of water including intakes less than 100 mm in diameter | $50 |
| Drainage Works: | |
| A storm drainage work involving discharge into a body of water | $200 |
| A ditching system for peat mining or agriculture | $200 |
| A settling basin | $100 |
| Other Construction: | |
| A water course diversion, channelization, or infilling | $500 |
| Exploratory drilling through or under water (per site) | $100 |
| Use of winter or ice roads across any body of water | $50 |
| Fording (per site), transmission line inspection, ATV or a pedestrian bridge | $50 |
| Any construction, grubbing, clearing or installation of structures within 15 m of the high water mark of a body of water if not specifically carried out in conjunction with any other category of this fee schedule. | $50 |
| Annual Licence Fee | $100 |
| Copies of documents, certificates, reports | $.25 /page |
| Processing and compiling data | $20 /hour |
| Electronic data put on diskette, tape or e-mailed | $20 /item |
| Electronic Bulletin Board Access Account | $250 /year |
| Water Well Data for Newfoundland and Labrador CD 1950-2002 | $50 |
An appropriate cost shall be determined for any reports, publications, computer applications software or any miscellaneous products. Where prices have already been set for such items, the same prices shall remain in effect.
Fees are non-refundable. This means that there is no refund if the application is not recommended for approval or if the licence or water use authorization is not issued. If an application for approval is incomplete and/or the applicant must provide more information or revise the same application then no further application fees will be charged. HST will be charged.
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