North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 15A - Environmental Quality › Chapter 02 - Environmental Management › Subchapter B - SURFACE WATER AND WETLAND STANDARDS › Section .0700 - NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT STRATEGY RULES FOR SURFACE WATERS › Section 02B .0701 - NUTRIENT STRATEGIES DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
In this Section, the following terms shall mean:
(1) "Agricultural uses" include the use of
				  waters for stock watering, irrigation, and other farm purposes.
(2) "Allocation" means the mass quantity, as
				  of nitrogen or phosphorus that a discharger, group of dischargers, or other
				  source is potentially allowed to release into surface waters. Allocations may
				  be expressed as delivered or discharge quantities. Possession of allocation
				  does not authorize the discharge of nutrients but is prerequisite to such
				  authorization in an NPDES permit.
(3) "Best Management Practice" or "BMP" means
				  the same as defined in Rule .0202 of this Subchapter.
(4) "Buffer" means the same as defined in
				  Rule .0202 of this Subchapter.
(5)
				  "Built-upon area" means the same as defined in
				  G.S.
				  143-214.7(b2).
(6) "Concentration(s)" means the same as
				  defined in Rule .0202 of this Subchapter.
(7) "Contiguous" means the same as defined in
				  Rule .0202 of this Subchapter.
(8)
				  "Critical area" means the same as defined in Rule .0202 of this
				  Subchapter.
(9) "Cropland" means
				  agricultural land that is used for growing corn, grains, oilseed crops, cotton,
				  forages, tobacco, beans, or other vegetables or fruits.
(10) "Delivered" as in delivered allocation,
				  load, or limit, means that portion of the allocation, load, or limit that is
				  estimated to be transported from a nutrient source or discharge to a waterbody.
				  A delivered value equals the corresponding discharge value multiplied by its
				  assigned transport or delivery factor.
(11) "Development" means the same as defined
				  in G.S.
				  143-214.7.
(12) "Director" means the Director of the
				  Division.
(13) "Discharge" as in
				  discharge allocation, load, or limit means the allocation, load, or limit that
				  is measured at the point of discharge into surface waters. A discharge value is
				  equivalent to a delivered value divided by the transport factor for that
				  discharge location.
(14) "Division"
				  means the Division of Water Resources of the North Carolina Department of
				  Environmental Quality.
(15) "DMS"
				  means the N.C. Division of Mitigation Services. DMS, as administrator of the
				  Riparian Buffer Restoration Fund, is the only in-lieu fee program to which
				  rules of this Section apply.
(16)
				  "Estuarine Nutrient Strategy" means the Neuse Nutrient Strategy as enumerated
				  in Rule .0710 of this Section and the Tar-Pamlico Nutrient Strategy as set
				  forth in Rule .0730 of this Section.
(17) "Estuary allocation" means the mass
				  loading of total nitrogen or total phosphorus at the estuary that is reserved
				  for a discharger or group of dischargers. A discharger's or group's estuary
				  allocation is equivalent to its discharge allocation multiplied by its assigned
				  transport factor.
(18) "Existing
				  development" means structures and other land modifications resulting from
				  development activities, other than those associated with agricultural or forest
				  management activities, that meet the following criteria:
(a) For projects that do not require a State
				  permit, they are in place or have established a vested right to construct
				  relative to the effective date of the applicable local stormwater ordinance
				  implemented pursuant to a new development stormwater rule of this Section;
				  and
(b) For projects that require a
				  State permit, they are in place before the effective date established in the
				  applicable State and federal entities stormwater rule of this
				  Section.