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<br />MINNESOTA RULES 6115.0410
<br />Subp. 4. Filing fees. Each application for a permit must include a $15 fee in the form of a
<br />check or money order payable to the commissioner of management and budget.
<br />Subp. 5. Professional engineer's requirements. The applicant must engage professional
<br />engineer(s) registered in the state of Minnesota or acting solely as officers or employees of the
<br />United States as provided in Minnesota Statutes, section 326.13, clause (3), who are proficient in
<br />dam engineering to prepare the engineering documents, plans, and specifications, to inspect the
<br />construction, or enlargement, and to establish operation and maintenance procedures for the structure.
<br />Subp. 6. Final design requirements. Upon acceptance and agreement by the commissioner
<br />of the preliminary report, the applicant shall submit to the commissioner, for approval, a final design
<br />report, together with plans and specifications and the initial inspection fee. The final design report
<br />shall include, but is not limited to, the following:
<br />A. general description of the project, such as its service life, production rates, required
<br />storage and area(s); geological considerations such as physiography, topography, geology, seismicity,
<br />groundwater conditions, and maps; hydrologic studies such as physical features, climatology,
<br />design, storm and design flood characteristics, flood routing, water -material balance, free -board
<br />requirements, dam -break flood; geotechnical information, such as rock -soil sampling and logging,
<br />geophysical investigations, field and lab testing, instrumentation data; considerations of construction
<br />materials and their properties, such as quantities required, borrow and aggregate locations and
<br />volumes, field and lab work and investigations, concrete, waste materials generation and placement
<br />techniques, investigation of the stored waste materials such as generations, transportation,
<br />mechanical/chemical/special testing, disposal practice;
<br />B. analytical determinations, such as seepage and underseepage studies, stability,
<br />deformation and settlement analysis; analytical and design details of facilities, such as dam,
<br />foundation, impoundment, abutments, spillways (for the purpose of these rules, spillway means
<br />any facility appurtenant to the dam available to discharge excess water and/or waste from the
<br />impoundment) or decant facilities, diversions, outlet works, instrumentation; operational aspects,
<br />such as impoundment operating criteria, initial filling criteria, responsibility and coordination,
<br />emergency procedures and warning systems: air, water, and solid pollution controls, sedimentation,
<br />and erosion controls: operational and postoperational maintenance and abandonment considerations;
<br />surveillance and inspection programs; and
<br />C. a detailed cost estimate.
<br />Subp. 7. Plans and specifications. Plans shall consist of a bound portfolio of the drawings
<br />with all sheets being of the same size, and shall be of such scale that specifications can be drafted,
<br />and construction accomplished. Specifications shall contain:
<br />A. general provisions, specifying the rights, duties, responsibilities of the owner, designer,
<br />contractor; the prescribed order of work;
<br />B. technical provisions describing approved work methods, equipment materials, and
<br />desired end results; and
<br />C. special conditions.
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