If no comments are submitted by the date specified by the department, the water permit or portion of the water permit must be canceled. If comments are received, the department shall consider all written comments and issue a final decision. The final decision must be mailed to the permitholder, to the owners of land benefited by the appropriation as indicated on the water permit, and any person that submitted written comments by the date specified by the department. If the final decision is to cancel the water permit or any portion of the water permit, the order canceling the water permit or any portion of the water permit must be sent to the permitholder with the final decision. An appeal may be taken from the decision of the department in accordance with chapter 28-32.

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 61-04-25

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37
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