Arizona Department of Water Resources Laws and Rules

Substantive Policy Statements

Substantive policy statements are advisory only.  A substantive policy statement does not include procedural documents that affect only the internal procedures of the agency.

Also, a substantive policy statement does not impose additional requirements or penalties on regulated parties.  Nor do they include confidential information or rules made in accordance with the Arizona Administrative Procedures Act.

If you believe that a substantive policy statement does impose additional requirements or penalties on regulated parties, you may petition the agency under Arizona Revised Statutes § 41-1033 for a review of the statement.

ADWR Substantive Policy Statements:

Assured and Adequate Water Supply (AWS7)
• Arizona Water Protection Fund:
  
  • Statement of policy (WP2)
    
  • Voting by proxy (WP3)
    
  • Meeting notices and Open Meetings Law (WP5)
    
  • Election of officers (WP6)
    
• Bodies of water accessible to the public
  
• Colorado River:
  
  • Recommended allocation of Central Arizona Project water (CR1)
    
  • Use of water in Arizona along the Colorado River (CR2)
    
  • Reallocation of uncontracted CAP water (CR3)
    
  • ADWR recommendations on reallocation of non-Indian agricultural CAP water (CR4)
    
  • State policy on marketing CAP M&I priority water (CR5)
    
  • Transfer of CAP M&I subcontract entitlements (CR6)
    
  • Procedures for transferring Colorado River entitlement (CR7)
    
• Compliance with administrative completeness review:
  
  • Statement (CACR1)
    
• Dam safety & flood control:
  
  • Flood control loan program (DS1)
    
  • Development of flood control program (DS2)
    
  • Flood control assistance program (DS3)
    
  • Alternative flood control assistance (DS4)
    
• Floodplain management & National Flood Insurance Program – Handbook


Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G
Appendix H
Appendix I
Appendix J
Appendix K
Appendix L
Appendix M
Appendix N
Appendix O


• Groundwater administration:
  
  • Irrigation grandfathered right (IGFR) based on substantial capital investment (GW2)
    
  • Eligibility for IGFR for land irrigated solely by surface water (GW7)’
    
  • Private water companies (GW8)
    
  • Grandfathered rights within irrigation districts, cities, towns & private water companies (GW10)
    
  • Grandfathered rights for nurseries, greenhouses, landscaped areas, etc. (GW12)
    
  • Revised procedure for calculating acreage (GW16B)
    
  • Policy concerning development plans (GW19)
    
  • Regulatory authority over surface water & groundwater (GW20)
    
  • Calculating seasonally adjusted water service area population (GW21)
    
  • Signatures required for Type I conversions, Type I & IGFR extinguishments, and conveyances (GW22)
    
  • Guidelines for consolidation of IGFR certificates (GW25)
    
  • Poor quality withdrawal permits for on-site beneficial use (GW26)
    
  • Interim service area policy (GW28)
    
  • DWR population survey standards (GW 29)
    
  • Uses of groundwater under Type 2 mineral extraction and electrical generation rights (GW30)
    
  • Beneficial use requirement for poor quality withdrawals of <100 AF/A (GW31)
    
  • Service area extensions (GW32)
    
  • Termination of poor quality groundwater withdrawal permits (GW33)
    
  • ADWR interpretation of A.R.S § 45-497(B) (GW34)
    
  • Conservation plans for new industrial users & interpretation of new turf-related facility definition (GW35)
    
  • Importation of groundwater from another provider by contract & service area expansion (GW36)
    
  • Interconnect contracts or agreements between municipal providers (GW37)
    
  • Remediated groundwater incentive for conservation requirement accounting for 2nd Management Plan (GW38)
    
  • Thermoplastic casing surface seal variance (GW39)
    
  • Procedure for establishing new service area rights within active management areas (GW40)
    
  • Compliance with large municipal area conservation requirements  (GW42)
    
  • Interpretation of A.R.S. § 45-454(D)(4) relating to exempt wells (GW43)
    
• Recharge:
  
  • Use of purchased stored water credits to offset GPCD violations (R2)
    
  • Review procedures for recovery well permit applications (R4)
    
  • Underground water storage permit application -
    
    • Technical and financial capability & unreasonable harm and hydrologic feasibility (R5)
      
    • Multiple benefit storage facilities (R6)
      
    • Pilot-scale underground storage facility application process (R7)
      
    • Guidance (R8)
      
• Surface Water:
  
  • Filing instream flow water rights in Arizona (SW1)
    
• Tribal government:
  
  • ADWR relations with Indian governments in Arizona (TG1)
    
• Water exchange:
  
  • 1992 water exchange act (WX1)
    
• Well construction:
  
• Well permits (WL1)
  
• Policy directives for open well capping program (WL3)
  
• Granting verbal authority to drill (WL4)
  
• Conversion of exploration/geotechnical wells and/or monitoring/piezometer wells to water production wells (WL5)
  
• Notice of intent to drill a shared well (WL6)
  
• Notice of policy regarding variances for geotechnical wells (WL7)
  
• Application for well driller’s license (WL8)
  
• Single-well license (WL9)
  
• Grace period for registration of monitor wells drilled as part of a CERCLA remedial action (WL10)
  
• Well abandonment handbook (WL11)
  
• Variances for notice of intention to drill or abandon wells (WL12)