10 CSR 23-3.060 Certification and Registration Reports PURPOSE: This rule sets required standards for certification and registration report form submittal.

(1) The certification process involves the review of the certification report form to be sure that the well meets all construction requirements necessary for the specific area the well has been drilled. The minimum construction standards were written to protect Missouri's groundwater and to help ensure that the construction of the wells does not constitute a threat to this resource. Due to the varied quantity and quality of groundwater in Missouri, the certification number does not necessarily indicate that the well produces potable water or usable quantities of water.

(2) A certification report form, supplied by the division, shall be used too report new well construction, new pump installation (initial pump set in newly drilled well), monitoring well construction (see 10 CSR 23-4) and heat pump well construction (see 10 CSR 23-5). The certification report form shall be completed and submitted to the division by the permittee within sixty (60) days after completion of any well. If the well installation contractor does not set the pump, the well installation contractor is responsible to submit a certification report form documenting work performed, otherwise the certification report form will reflect all areas of reporting. The pump installation contractor is responsible for submitting a certification report form documenting work performed.

The certification report form shall be accompanied by the certification fee. The permittee shall furnish the well owner one (1) copy, the division one (1) copy and retain one (1) copy in the permittee's files. The report form shall contain all available required information. A certification report form shall be submitted for a dry hole, but no certification fee is required.

(3) The registration process involves the documentation of certain types of activities according to the requirements and reported on forms supplied by the division.

(4) A registration report form, supplied by the division, shall be used to report plugging of wells, raising of casing, lining of wells, drilling of jetted wells (unless exempted), deepening of wells, major repairs and alteration of wells and must be submitted to the division by the permittee within sixty (60) days after completion of the appropriate operations.

Records for replacement pumps will not be required unless requested by the division. Pump replacement cannot change status of the well from domestic to multifamily or from domestic to high yield. The registration report form shall be accompanied by the registration fee, if required. The permittee shall furnish the well owner one (1) copy, the division one (1) copy and retain one (1) copy in the permittee's files. The report form shall contain all available required information.

(5) If work is performed by the landowner, following strict requirements under section 256.607, RSMo and 10 CSR 23-3.020(7), the landowner must submit all required forms and fees and is subject to all laws and rules as if a permitted entity.

AUTHORITY: sections 256.606, 256.614, 256.623 and 256.626, RSMo Supp. 1991.* Original rule filed April 2, 1987, effective July 27, 1987. Emergency rescission and emergency rule filed Nov. 16, 1993, effective Dec. 11, 1993, expired April 9, 1994. Rescinded and readopted: Filed Aug. 17, 1993, effective March 10, 1994.
*Original authority: 256.606, RSMo 1991 and 256.614, 256.623 and 256.626, RSMo 1985, amended 1991.

MO Dept. of Natural Resources: CODE OF STATE REGULATIONS - Matt Blunt (11/30/01) Secretary of State

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