The purpose of this rulemaking is to establish a process in Environmental Resource Permitting rules to allow the completed phase of permitted surface water management system construction project to be transferred to the operation phase prior to completion of the entire project. The effect of the rule revisions will be to establish a uniform procedure whereby permittees may request that independently functioning phases of a construction project authorized by an ERP be transferred to the operation phase and to the responsible operation and maintenance entity while allowing the originally issued permit to remain active until completion of construction of the entire project. Minor amendments are also made to the ERP general conditions concerning requirements for transferring a construction permit to the operation phase.