PURPOSE: This rule sets required standards for certification report form submittal.

1. (1) A certification report form, supplied by the division, shall be used to report new monitoring well construction, except that no certification report form is required for a temporary well. The certification report form shall be completed and submitted to the division by the permittee within sixty (60) days after the completion of any well. The certification report form shall be accompanied by the certification fee (see 10 CSR 23-2 for applicable fees). The certification report form shall contain all required information specified thereon.
2. (2) The certification process involves the review of the certification report form to be sure that the well meets minimum construction requirements. Upon successful completion of review of the certification report form, a certification number will be assigned by the division and sent to the well owner. The issuance of the certification number indicates that the well has met the minimum standards set out in these rules.
3. (3) A registration report form, supplied by the division, shall be used to report the plugging of a monitoring well or the major repair or alteration of a monitoring well and must be submitted to the division by the permittee within sixty (60) days after completion of such operations. The registration report form shall be accompanied by the registration fee. Temporary monitoring wells are required to be plugged within thirty (30) days after initial completion. The registration report form shall contain all required information specified thereon.
4. (4) When temporary wells are installed, usually multiple wells per monitoring site are used. All temporary wells per monitoring site may be reported on one (1) registration report form if the wells are plugged the same way. Only one (1) registration fee is required per site. The submittal of this type of registration report form and fee is required within one hundred eighty (180) days of completion of the plugging of temporary wells. The registration report form shall contain all required information specified thereon.
5. (5) Certification and registration report forms shall include the geographic location of the well. The geographic location shall have a format in degrees, minutes, and seconds for latitude and longitude relative to the North American Datum 1983 (NAD1983) geodetic datum. Location accuracy shall be at least one (1) place after the second’s decimal point in this format: latitude 38°59’59.9”N, longitude 94°01’01.0”W.

AUTHORITY: sections 256.606, 256.614, and 256.626, RSMo 2000.* Emergency rule filed Nov. 16, 1993, effective Dec. 11, 1993, expired April 9, 1994. Original rule filed Aug. 17, 1993, effective March 10, 1994. Amended: Filed Nov. 1, 1995, effective June 30, 1996. Amended: Filed Nov. 18, 2010, effective July 30, 2011. *Original authority: 256.606, RSMo 1991; 256.614, RSMo 1985, amended 1991; and 256.626, RSMo 1985, amended 1991.