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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
August 24, 2021 - Introduced by Representatives Spiros, Murphy, Rozar, Tusler
and VanderMeer, cosponsored by Senators Cowles and Darling. Referred to
Committee on Energy and Utilities.
AB504,1,7 1An Act to repeal 281.348 (3) (b) 4. and 281.348 (3) (d) 4.; to amend 281.348 (3)
2(a) 2., 281.348 (3) (b) 1., 281.348 (3) (b) 2., 281.348 (3) (b) 2m., 281.348 (3) (c) 1.,
3281.348 (3) (c) 4., 281.348 (3) (c) 7., 281.348 (3) (c) 8., 281.348 (3) (cm), 281.348
4(3) (cr), 281.348 (3) (d) (intro.), 281.348 (3) (d) 3., 281.348 (3) (e), 281.348 (4)
5(intro.) and 281.41 (1) (c); and to create 281.348 (3) (a) 3., 281.348 (3) (a) 4.,
6281.348 (3) (b) 2e. and 281.348 (5) of the statutes; relating to: water supply
7service area plans for public water systems.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill makes numerous changes to requirements for water supply service
area plans for public water supply systems.
Under current law, a person operating a public water supply system that serves
a population of 10,000 or more must have a plan, approved by the Department of
Natural Resources, that shows the proposed water supply service areas. The plan
must include other specified information, including identification of options for
supplying water that are cost-effective based upon a cost-effectiveness analysis of
regional and individual water supply and water conservation alternatives. Under
the bill, the approval of plans by DNR and the cost-effectiveness analysis are
required only for plans that involve withdrawals or diversions of water from the
Great Lakes basin that must be approved by DNR.

Current law requires a plan to include identification of procedures for
implementing and enforcing the plan and a commitment to using those procedures.
The bill eliminates this requirement and requires a plan to identify procedures for
implementing and updating the plan.
Under current law, if the area covered by a plan is within an area for which an
areawide water quality planning agency has been designated, the agency is
responsible for designating the proposed water supply service areas in the plan. The
bill eliminates this responsibility but retains current law authority for the agency to
provide regional water needs assessments and other regional water supply planning
information.
Under current law, DNR may not approve a plan unless the plan meets several
criteria, one of which is that the plan is consistent with any applicable approved
areawide water quality management plans. The bill eliminates this criterion.
Finally, the bill provides that a plan does not create, establish, or evidence an
obligation for any water utility to provide service to the service area delineated or
covered in the plan. The bill also prohibits the Public Service Commission from
requiring a water utility to extend or provide service to an area on the basis of the
provisions of a plan.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB504,1 1Section 1. 281.348 (3) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,2,52 281.348 (3) (a) 2. A person operating a public water supply system that serves
3a population of 10,000 or more and that withdraws water from the waters of the state
4shall have an approved prepare a plan under this section no later than December 31,
52025.
AB504,2 6Section 2. 281.348 (3) (a) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
AB504,2,107 281.348 (3) (a) 3. A person operating a public water supply system shall obtain
8department approval of a water supply service area plan that provides for a new or
9increased diversion that requires approval under s. 281.346 (4) or a new or increased
10withdrawal that requires approval under s. 281.346 (4s) or (5).
AB504,3 11Section 3. 281.348 (3) (a) 4. of the statutes is created to read:
AB504,3,3
1281.348 (3) (a) 4. Except as provided in subd. 3., a person operating a public
2water supply system is not required to obtain department approval of a water supply
3service area plan.
AB504,4 4Section 4. 281.348 (3) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,3,85 281.348 (3) (b) 1. Public review and comment on a proposed plan. For a plan
6submitted prepared after the compact's effective date covering a public water supply
7system that withdraws water from the Great Lakes basin, the procedures and
8requirements under this subdivision shall be consistent with s. 281.343 (6) (b).
AB504,5 9Section 5. 281.348 (3) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,3,1210 281.348 (3) (b) 2. Approval Submission of a the plan by to the governing body
11of each city, village, and town whose public water supply is addressed by the plan
12before the plan is submitted to the department.
AB504,6 13Section 6. 281.348 (3) (b) 2e. of the statutes is created to read:
AB504,3,1514 281.348 (3) (b) 2e. Submission of the plan to the department if department
15approval is required under par. (a) 3.
AB504,7 16Section 7. 281.348 (3) (b) 2m. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,3,1817 281.348 (3) (b) 2m. Approval of a the plan by the department if department
18approval is required under par. (a) 3
.
AB504,8 19Section 8. 281.348 (3) (b) 4. of the statutes is repealed.
AB504,9 20Section 9. 281.348 (3) (c) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,3,2221 281.348 (3) (c) 1. Delineation of the area for which the plan is being prepared
22and.
AB504,3,25 231m. If department approval is required, delineation of proposed water supply
24service areas for each public water supply system making a withdrawal covered by
25the plan, except as provided in par. (cm) or (cr).
AB504,10
1Section 10. 281.348 (3) (c) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,4,42 281.348 (3) (c) 4. Identification of the options for supplying water in the area
3for the period covered by the plan that are approvable under other applicable
4statutes and rules and that are cost-effective based upon a.
AB504,4,8 54m. A cost-effectiveness analysis of regional and individual water supply and
6water conservation alternatives if the plan provides for a new or increased diversion
7requiring approval under s. 281.346 (4) or a new or increased withdrawal requiring
8approval under s. 281.346 (4s) or (5)
.
AB504,11 9Section 11. 281.348 (3) (c) 7. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,4,1110 281.348 (3) (c) 7. Identification of the procedures for implementing and
11enforcing updating the plan and a commitment to using those procedures.
AB504,12 12Section 12. 281.348 (3) (c) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,4,1513 281.348 (3) (c) 8. An analysis of how the plan supports and is consistent with
14any applicable comprehensive plans, as defined in s. 66.1001 (1) (a), and applicable
15approved areawide water quality management plans under s. 283.83.
AB504,13 16Section 13. 281.348 (3) (cm) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,5,417 281.348 (3) (cm) For the purposes of plans under par. (a), and except as
18provided in par. (cr),
an areawide water quality planning agency designated by the
19governor under ch. NR 121, Wis. Adm. Code, shall delineate the proposed water
20supply service areas for all of the public water supply systems in the planning area
21for which the agency is designated. An areawide water quality planning agency shall
22delineate proposed water supply service areas that are consistent with the approved
23areawide water quality management plan under s. 283.83 for the planning area and
24that permit the development of plans that are approvable under par. (d). An
25areawide water quality planning agency
may also provide regional water needs

1assessments and other regional water supply planning information. The process for
2conducting regional activities under this subsection may be the same as the process
3for regional water supply planning for a groundwater management area designated
4under s. 281.34 (9).
AB504,14 5Section 14. 281.348 (3) (cr) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,5,116 281.348 (3) (cr) For the purposes of plans under par. (a), if the Great Lakes
7council approves a diversion area for a public water supply system proposing to make
8a diversion from the Great Lakes basin under s. 281.346 (4) (e), that diversion area
9shall be the delineated water supply service area for purposes of this section and does
10not need to be consistent with the approved areawide water quality management
11plan under s. 283.83 for the planning area.
AB504,15 12Section 15. 281.348 (3) (d) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,5,1513 281.348 (3) (d) (intro.) The If department approval of a plan is required, the
14department may not approve a plan under this subsection unless all of the following
15apply:
AB504,16 16Section 16. 281.348 (3) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,5,1817 281.348 (3) (d) 3. The plan is consistent with any applicable comprehensive
18plans, as defined in s. 66.1001 (1) (a).
AB504,17 19Section 17. 281.348 (3) (d) 4. of the statutes is repealed.
AB504,18 20Section 18. 281.348 (3) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,6,321 281.348 (3) (e) The department shall specify in its approval of a plan under this
22section a water supply service area for each public water supply system making a
23withdrawal covered by the plan. The department may not limit water supply service
24areas based on jurisdictional boundaries, except as necessary to prevent waters of
25the Great Lakes basin from being transferred from a county that lies completely or

1partly within the Great Lakes basin into a county that lies entirely outside the Great
2Lakes basin, or except where the water supply service area is delineated by a
3diversion area approved by the Great Lakes council under par. (cr).
AB504,19 4Section 19. 281.348 (4) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,6,95 281.348 (4) Withdrawal amount in certain plans. (intro.) In If a plan under
6this section that covers a public water supply system making a withdrawal from the
7Great Lakes basin requires department approval, the department shall specify a
8withdrawal amount for the public water supply system equal to the greatest of the
9following:
AB504,20 10Section 20. 281.348 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
AB504,6,1511 281.348 (5) Water supply service area. A water supply service area plan
12prepared under this section does not create, establish, or evidence an obligation for
13any water utility to provide service to the service area delineated or covered in the
14plan. The public service commission may not require a water utility to extend or
15provide service to an area on the basis of the provisions of a plan.
AB504,21 16Section 21. 281.41 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB504,6,2417 281.41 (1) (c) Construction or material change shall be according to approved
18plans only. The department may disapprove plans that are not in conformance with
19any existing approved areawide waste treatment management plan prepared
20pursuant to the federal water pollution control act, P.L. 92-500, as amended, and
21shall disapprove plans that do not meet the grounds for approval specified under s.
22281.35 (5) (d), if applicable. The department shall disapprove plans that are not in
23conformance with any applicable approved water supply service area plan under s.
24281.348.
AB504,6,2525 (End)
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