General environmental resource permits are issued for activities that fall below certain specified thresholds. Activities exceeding these thresholds must be authorized through issuance of an individual environmental resource permit. The purpose of this rulemaking is to clarify the threshold for general environmental resource permits when activities are proposed to occur in, on or over wetlands and other surface waters. The effect will be to reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens and achieve other streamlining benefits for the regulated public when proposed activities involve minor work in certain isolated small wetlands and other surface waters, by allowing issuance of general permits for these activities.