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451-1994-III-1-INLAND-WATERS-303 - PART 303 WETLANDS PROTECTION (324.30301...324.30329)
Section 324.30301 ‑ Definitions; technical wetland delineation standards.
Section 324.30302 ‑ Legislative findings; criteria to be considered in administration of part.
Section 324.30303 ‑ Studies regarding wetland resources; contracts; study as public record for distribution at cost; identification of land suitable for cranberry production activities.
Section 324.30303b ‑ Repealed. 2009, Act 120, Eff. Oct. 1, 2012.
Section 324.30303d ‑ Repealed. 2009, Act 120, Eff. Oct. 1, 2012.
Section 324.30304 ‑ Prohibited activities.
Section 324.30304b ‑ Issuance of state programmatic general permits; agreement with United States army corps of engineers; applicability of subsections (2) and (3).
Section 324.30305 ‑ Activities not requiring permit under part; uses allowed without permit; farming operation in wetland not requiring permit; incidental creation of wetland; area created as result of commercial excavation; activities not subject to regulation; subsection (6) inapplicable to certain lands; "agricultural drain" defined.
Section 324.30305b ‑ Cranberry beds.
Section 324.30306 ‑ Permit for use or development listed in MCL 324.30304; filing, form, and contents of application; proposed use or development as single permit application; fee; work done in violation of permit requirement; fee refund; conditional permit.
Section 324.30306b ‑ Preapplication meeting; fee; withdrawal of request; refund of fee; duration of written agreement.
Section 324.30307 ‑ Hearing; location; notice; approval or disapproval of permit application; appeal; legal action; website and electronic notification of pending permit applications, public notices, and public hearing schedules; effect of ordinance regulating wetlands; review of permit application by local unit of government; effect of failure to approve or disapprove within time period; recommendations; notice of permit issuance.
Section 324.30308 ‑ Adoption of wetlands ordinance by local unit of government; availability of wetland inventory; completion of inventory map; notice; enforceable presumptions not created; processing wetland use applications.
Section 324.30309 ‑ Regulation by local unit of government of wetland less than 2 acres; permit application; determination.
Section 324.30310 ‑ Regulation by local unit of government of wetland less than 2 acres; revaluation for assessment purposes; protest and appeal; judicial review; right to initiate proceedings not limited by section.
Section 324.30311 ‑ Permit for activity listed in MCL 324.30304; approval conditioned on certain determinations; criteria; findings of necessity; criteria for determining unacceptable disruption to aquatic resources; additional showing; feasible and prudent alternatives; determination of unreasonable costs.
Section 324.30311a ‑ Guideline, bulletin, interpretive statement, or form with instructions; effect.
Section 324.30311b ‑ Permit; validity; duration; conditions.
Section 324.30311d ‑ Compensatory wetland mitigation; methods; submission of mitigation plan; financial assurance.
Section 324.30312 ‑ Minor project categories of activities; general permit for category of activities; notice and public hearing; determinations; requirements and standards; duration of general permit; determination of more than minimal adverse effects; coordination of general permit and minor project categories; conversion to blueberry farming or certain other agriculture.
Section 324.30312b ‑ Repealed. 2009, Act 120, Eff. Oct. 1, 2012.
Section 324.30312d ‑ Blueberry production assistance program.
Section 324.30312f ‑ Voluntary wetland restoration program; permit applications; exceptions; eligible applicants; review and approval process; joint agency restoration committee; qualified activities; applicability to former wetlands.
Section 324.30313 ‑ Grounds for revocation or modification of general permit; grounds for termination or modification for cause of general permit.
Section 324.30313b ‑ Minor permit revisions.
Section 324.30314 ‑ Information required to obtain compliance with part; conditions for entering on premises.
Section 324.30315 ‑ Violation; order requiring compliance; civil action.
Section 324.30316 ‑ Civil action; commencement; request; venue; jurisdiction; violations; civil fines and penalties; restoration of wetland; award of attorney fees.
Section 324.30317 ‑ Disposition of fees and civil fines; expenditures; report.
Section 324.30318 ‑ Revaluation of property for assessment purposes.
Section 324.30319 ‑ Rules; hearing; award of costs; judicial review; proceedings to protect wetland owner's rights.
Section 324.30320 ‑ Inventories of wetland; use; updating; maps, ground surveys, and descriptions as public documents; availability and cost of aerial photographs and satellite telemetry data reproduction to county register of deeds.
Section 324.30321 ‑ Basis and filing of preliminary inventory of wetland; assessment of property; report; determination; agricultural drain; culvert, ditch, or channel; assessment; fee; providing copy of delineation forms.
Section 324.30322 ‑ Notice to owners of record of change in status of property.
Section 324.30323 ‑ Legal rights or authority not abrogated; action to determine if property taken without just compensation; court order; limitation on value of property.
Section 324.30325 ‑ Repealed. 2013, Act 98, Imd. Eff. July 2, 2013.
Section 324.30327 ‑ Certifications by department under federal water pollution control act.
Section 324.30328 ‑ Applicability to "navigable waters" and "waters of the United States" as defined under federal law.
Section 324.30329 ‑ Repealed. 2009, Act 120, Eff. Apr. 1, 2013.

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