Substitute for HB 2114 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Clarifying which structures shall be considered water obstructions and not a dam, increasing application fees for a permit to construct, modify or add to a dam, requiring post-construction permit fees and requiring any licensed professional engineer who conducts inspections required by the act to be approved by the chief engineer or a certified intern engineer who is under the supervision of a licensed professional engineer.

Added a new provision allowing the chief engineer to exempt certain water obstructions from permitting if they meet most criteria and are deemed to have minimal impact on safety and property, even if they fail the strict distance test.

Corrected a typo in the definition of exempt obstructions, changing 'five square' to 'five square miles or less' to clarify the watershed area limit.

Changed the description of fees from 'post-construction' to 'preconstruction' to accurately reflect when the fee is due.

Updated the header and formatting to reflect the bill's current status as amended by the Senate Committee of the Whole.

The definition of a 'dam' was updated to require a storage volume of 50 or more acre feet at the top of the emergency spillway elevation, in addition to height requirements.

The title and text were changed from requiring 'preconstruction' permit fees to requiring 'post-construction' permit fees for water obstructions.

The bill now allows certified intern engineers, provided they are supervised by a licensed professional engineer, to conduct inspections required by the act.

Civil penalty amounts collected under the act are now remitted to the state general fund instead of the water structures fund.

The list of repealed statutes was shortened, removing the repeal of K.S.A. 82a-303b and 82a-328 compared to the original draft.