85-2-364. Department permit coordination -- requirements for aquifer recharge or mitigation plans. To ensure that the department and the department of environmental quality are coordinating their respective permitting activities:

(1) an applicant for a new appropriation right pursuant to 85-2-360 that involves aquifer recharge or mitigation shall provide the department with a copy of a relevant discharge permit if necessary; and

(2) the department may not grant a new appropriation right pursuant to 85-2-360 that involves aquifer recharge or mitigation until the discharge permit, if necessary, has been obtained and presented to the department.