NR 851.11 NoteNote: Section 281.346 (1) (jj), Stats., reads as follows: “Great Lakes council” means the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Council, created under s. 281.343 (2) (a).

NR 851.11 NoteNote: The Great Lakes council is comprised of the Great Lake Governors, or their designees, who consult and coordinate with the Premiers of Ontario, Quebec, and the Great-Lakes St. Lawrence River Water Resources Regional Body to protect the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River.

NR 851.11 NoteNote: Section 281.346 (1) (jm), Stats., reads as follows: “Intrabasin transfer” means the transfer of water from the watershed of one of the Great Lakes into the watershed of another of the Great Lakes.

NR 851.11 NoteNote: Section 281.346 (1) (nm), Stats., reads as follows: Notwithstanding s. 281.01 (9), “Person” means an individual or other entity, including a government or nongovernmental organization, including any scientific, professional, business, nonprofit, or public interest organization or association that is neither affiliated with nor under the direction of a government.

NR 851.11(10)(10) “Preexisting diversion” means a diversion of water from the Great Lakes basin into a watershed outside of the Great Lakes basin that existed prior to the ratification of the Great Lakes Compact on December 8, 2008, and received an approval from the department under s. 281.344 (3m) or (4), Stats.

NR 851.11 NoteNote: Section 281.346 (1) (pm), Stats., reads as follows: “Public water supply” means water distributed to the public through a physically connected system of treatment, storage, and distribution facilities that serve a group of largely residential customers and that may also serve industrial, commercial, and other institutional customers.

NR 851.11(13)(13) “Public water supply system” means a physically connected system of treatment, storage, and distribution facilities that distributes public water supply that is treated for human consumption, and that is owned by a city, village, county, town, town sanitary district, utility district, public inland lake and rehabilitation district, or municipal water district, joint local water authorities, or a privately owned water utility serving any of these entities.

NR 851.11 NoteNote: Section 281.346 (1) (ps), Stats., reads as follows: “Reasonable water supply alternative” means a water supply alternative that is similar in cost to, and as environmentally sustainable and protective of public health as, the proposed new or increased diversion and that does not have a greater adverse environmental impact than the proposed new or increased diversion.

NR 851.11 NoteNote: Section 281.346 (1) (q), Stats., reads as follows: “Regional body” means the body consisting of the governors of the parties and the premiers of Ontario and Quebec, Canada, or their designees as established by the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement.

NR 851.11 NoteNote: Section NR 110.03 (29t) reads as follows: “Sewer service area” means that area served or anticipated to be served by a sewage collection system.

NR 851.11 NoteNote: Section 281.346 (1) (r), Stats., reads as follows: “Source watershed” means the watershed from which a withdrawal originates. If water is withdrawn directly from a Great Lake or from the St. Lawrence River, then the source watershed is the watershed of that Great Lake or the watershed of the St. Lawrence River, respectively. If water is withdrawn from the watershed of a stream that is a direct tributary to a Great Lake or a direct tributary to the St. Lawrence River, then the source watershed is the watershed of that Great Lake or the watershed of the St. Lawrence River, respectively.

NR 851.11 NoteNote: Section 281.346 (1) (t), Stats., reads as follows: “Straddling community” means any city, village, or town that, based on its boundary existing as of the compact’s effective date [December 8, 2008], is partly within the Great Lakes basin or partly within the watersheds of 2 of the Great Lakes and that is wholly within any county that lies partly or completely within the Great Lakes basin.

NR 851.11(19)(b)(b) A county’s boundaries as of December 13, 2005, shall be used to determine whether the county is a straddling county.

NR 851.11 NoteNote: Section 281.346 (1) (tm), Stats., reads as follows: “Straddling county” means a county that lies partly within the Great Lakes basin.

NR 851.11 NoteNote: Section 281.346 (1) (u), Stats., reads as follows: “Technical review” means a thorough analysis and evaluation conducted to determine whether a proposal that is subject to regional review under this section meets the criteria for approval under [s. 281.346 (4), (5), or (6), Stats].