Minnesota Administrative Rules

2890.3100 MAXIMUM DRILLING CHARGES, DIRECT PUSH TECHNOLOGY.

For a task listed in this part, the cost is prima facie unreasonable when it exceeds the lowest of the following: the amount specified for it in the bid for contractor services; the amount specified for it in the consultant proposal for the associated step of services; and the maximum cost specified for it in this part when the task was started.

The following costs include costs for decontamination, drilling permitting, monitoring well permitting, and completion of well-sealing notification forms:

A.

direct push probing, $164 per hour if the probe unit has a retraction force of up to 15,000 pounds, or $242 per hour if the probe unit has a retraction force of greater than 15,000 pounds;

B.

one-inch well completion, $164 per hour plus $15 per foot;

C.

push probe sealing, $1.21 per foot;

D.

mobilization/demobilization (drilling) (0 to 50 miles one way), $303;

E.

mobilization/demobilization (drilling) (51 to 500 miles one way), $303 plus $7 per mile over 50;

F.

mobilization/demobilization (drilling) (over 500 miles one way), $2,662; and

G.

per diem, $164 per day per person.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 115C.07

History:

28 SR 383; L 2010 c 241 s 4; MS s 115C.07 subd 3 paragraph (f)

Published Electronically:

November 30, 2012