Section 327IAC8-3-3. Application for permits

   (a) A properly executed application form shall accompany the plans and specifications submitted to the commissioner for the purposes of obtaining a permit. Application forms may be obtained from the commissioner upon request or computer-generated if the computer-generated form is similar in appearance and identical in content to the form generated by the commissioner. A properly executed application form shall include the following:

(1) The name, address, identification number, and telephone number of the public water system.

(2) The name, address, and telephone number of the engineering firm or other entity specified in section 2.1 of this rule and the developing firm.

(3) The name, address, and title of the person who is to receive the permit (generally the person representing the funding entity of the construction project).

(4) The location, a brief description, and the source of funding for the construction project.

(5) A list and corresponding mailing labels of all potentially affected parties as defined by IC 4-21.5-3-5(b).

(6) A dated signature certifying that, to the best of the public water system’s knowledge, all potentially affected parties, as defined by IC 4-21.5-3-5(b), have been listed.

  (b) The applications, plans, and specifications along with any reports and other information shall be submitted using a format and meeting content requirements approved by the commissioner.

  (c) All plans, specifications, and applications must be prepared by or under the direct supervision of a professional engineer registered in Indiana and shall bear the seal and certification of the professional engineer certifying that construction of the proposed project following the application, plans, and specifications will produce drinking water of satisfactory quality and normal operating pressure at the peak operating flow rate in accordance with this article. Plans, specifications, and applications for small transient and small nontransient noncommunity public water systems must be prepared in accordance with section 2.1 of this rule.

  (d) A proposed construction project that is the subject of an application for a construction permit must be entirely independently based on existing public water system facilities or proposed construction projects with effective construction permits, issued by the commissioner, that are not the subject of the application.

  (e) The commissioner may require additional information, within the context of a permit application, to determine whether the proposed facility will meet the issuance requirements of section 4 of this rule.

  (f) Whenever the commissioner requires information, within the context of a permit application, regarding:

(1) existing water supply facilities or water treatment works; or

(2) the operation and maintenance thereof;

this information shall be submitted to the commissioner within thirty (30) days of such request.

  (g) A public water system proposing to install or construct facilities, equipment, or devices under a staged permitting process must submit proposed schedules for the following along with the initial permit application as allowed under section 2(e) of this rule:

(1) The construction of the entire project.

(2) The application or applications for the remainder of the staged parts of the total construction project.

(Water Pollution Control Division; 327 IAC 8-3-3; filed Sep 24, 1987, 3:00 p.m.: 11 IR 710; filed Mar 31, 1999, 1:50 p.m.: 22 IR 2496; readopted filed Jan 10, 2001, 3:23 p.m.: 24 IR 1518; filed Apr 24, 2006, 3:00 p.m.: 29 IR 2950; readopted filed Nov 21, 2007, 1:16 p.m.: 20071219-IR-327070553BFA; readopted filed Jul 29, 2013, 9:21 a.m.: 20130828-IR-327130176BFA)