OAR 690-079-0010: Purpose

(1) This Division establishes the procedure for state agencies to request reservations of water for future economic development pursuant to ORS 537.356. (2) These rules shall apply to all reservation requests received by the Department after June 30, 1989. Notwithstanding the provisions of OAR 690-079-0040 to 690-079-0150, any reservation for which a request is received by the Department prior to June 5, 1992, and which is approved under these rules, shall receive a priority date of June 5, 1992, provided information that conforms to the provision of OAR 690-079-0060 are received by the Department prior to January 1, 1995. For purposes of this rule, the request for a reservation of water in the Willamette Basin for municipal purposes and the request for a reservation of water in the Willamette Basin for agricultural purposes, both of which were referenced in the Commission's Willamette Basin Plan as adopted on January 31, 1992, shall be considered requests received by the Department prior to June 5, 1992. (3) This Division also establishes procedures to consider applications to extend reservations established in basin program rules as provided in OAR 690-079-0160. OAR 690-079-0020 to 0150 does not apply to requests for extensions of reservations, which were originally established in basin program rules pursuant to ORS 537.249 or 537.356.