General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 21G Massachusetts Water Management Act

• Massachusetts General Laws - Short title - Chapter 21G, Section 1
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Massachusetts Water Management Act”.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 21G, Section 2
  As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Annual statement of withdrawal”, an annual...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Planning and management of water use and conservation; advisory committee; regulations - Chapter 21G, Section 3
  The department and commission shall cooperate in the planning, establishment and management of programs to assess the uses of water in the commonwealth and to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Withdrawal volume threshold - Chapter 21G, Section 4
  The withdrawal volume threshold to be applied pursuant to sections five and seven shall be one hundred thousand gallons per day. The department may, by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration statements; filing - Chapter 21G, Section 5
  Each person making an existing withdrawal in excess of the threshold volume shall file a registration statement in accordance with the regulations adopted by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contents of registration statements - Chapter 21G, Section 6
  The regulations issued by the department shall specify the form and required contents of a registration statement and the terms under which an existing withdrawal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of permits; criteria and standards - Chapter 21G, Section 7
  The department shall, by regulation, specify, for each water source from which withdrawals are to be permitted, a date upon which its regulations establishing criteria,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Permit applications; contents - Chapter 21G, Section 8
  The regulations adopted by the department shall specify the form and required contents of a permit application. At a minimum, such regulations shall specify that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Processing permit applications; notice of proposed withdrawal - Chapter 21G, Section 9
  All applications for permits shall be submitted to the department in conformance with the rules and on the forms adopted under sections seven and eight...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recommendations - Chapter 21G, Section 10
  The department shall, by regulation, establish a procedure to be followed in obtaining recommendations from local officials or bodies, regional planning agencies, or others including...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of permits; conditions; findings - Chapter 21G, Section 11
  In accordance with rules adopted under section seven, the department may issue permits for any new withdrawal of water if it determines that the withdrawal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adjudicatory hearing; judicial review - Chapter 21G, Section 12
  Any person aggrieved by a decision of the department with respect to a permit application or an addition to an existing withdrawal may request an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of activities involving water withdrawal - Chapter 21G, Section 13
  For the purpose of determining compliance with this chapter or any regulations adopted thereunder, the duly authorized agents and employees of the department may at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement orders; civil administrative penalties; actions by attorney general; punishment - Chapter 21G, Section 14
  The department may issue such orders as are reasonably necessary to aid in the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter. The orders shall include,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Water emergency declaration - Chapter 21G, Section 15
  Any city or town or any water company, public agency or authority of the commonwealth or its political subdivisions which is the operator of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State of water emergency; eminent domain; authorization; notice - Chapter 21G, Section 16
  During a state of water emergency, declared under section fifteen, if the department has approved a plan designed to bring about an expeditious end to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State of water emergency; orders - Chapter 21G, Section 17
  During a state of water emergency declared under section fifteen, the department, to the extent not in conflict with applicable federal law or regulation but...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration and permit application fee schedules - Chapter 21G, Section 18
  The department shall, by regulation, establish reasonable registration and permit application fee schedules which shall be based upon, and not exceed, a reasonable portion of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public water system rates; propriety - Chapter 21G, Section 19
  Nothing in this chapter shall limit the authority of the department of telecommunications and energy to rule on the propriety of any rates charged by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons engaged in business of digging or drilling wells; certification; reports - Chapter 21G, Section 20
  No person shall engage in the business of digging or drilling wells within the commonwealth unless he has filed a certification with the department. Each...

Last modified: September 11, 2015