AB411: Text as Enrolled

Date of enactment:
2003 Assembly Bill 411 Date of publication*:

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2001-02 : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2003 WISCONSIN ACT

An Act to create 295.16 (4) (k) of the statutes; relating to: an exemption from requirements for nonmetallic mining reclamation.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB411, s. 1 Section 1. 295.16 (4) (k) of the statutes is created to read:

295.16 (4) (k) Removal of soils for the purpose of creating a pond or wetland that has an area of 3 acres or less, if all of the following apply:

1. The person intending to create the pond or wetland notifies the county land conservation personnel for the county in which the pond or wetland would be located of the person's intent to create a pond or wetland under this paragraph.

2. The person completes the creation of the pond or wetland no more than 18 months after providing the notification under subd. 1.

3. The person stockpiles the materials removed in the creation of the pond or wetland on the site for no more than 12 months, except that the person may stockpile the materials for up to 2 additional periods of up to 12 months each if the person obtains the approval of the county land conservation personnel and complies with any requirements imposed by the county land conservation personnel with regard to sloping and seeding the stockpile to limit runoff into water bodies.