Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection General › Chapter NR 155 - Urban Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Abatement And Storm Water Management Grant Program › Section NR 155.12 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1) "Applicant" means a governmental unit or
				Board of Regents when applying for a grant under this chapter.
(2) "Board of Regents" means the Board of
				Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
(3) "Certification" means that an authorized
				representative has attested in writing that the statement is true.
(4) "Cost-effective" means economical in
				terms of the tangible benefits produced by the money spent. Tangible benefits
				include pollution control, fish and wildlife habitat enhancement, enhancements
				to recreation, public safety, economical operation, economical maintenance and
				enhanced life expectancy of the urban best management practice.
(5) "Cost-share agreement" means the
				agreement established between the governmental unit and the cost-share
				recipient which identifies the urban best management practices to be used on
				the cost-share recipient's lands and the cost estimate, installation schedule
				and operation and maintenance requirements for these urban best management
				practices.
(6) "Department" means
				the Wisconsin department of natural resources.
(7) "Force account work" means the use of the
				governmental unit's or board of regent's own employees and equipment for
				project planning, design, construction, construction related activities,
				inspections, repair, or improvement to an urban best management
				practice.
(8) "Governmental unit"
				means any unit of government including, but not limited to, a county, city,
				village, town, metropolitan sewerage district created under ss.
				200.01
				to
				200.15 or
				200.21 to
				200.65,
				Stats., town sanitary district, public inland lake protection and
				rehabilitation district, regional planning commission or drainage district
				operating under ch. 89, 1961 Stats., or ch. 88, Stats. "Governmental unit" does
				not include the state or any state agency.
(9) "Grant period" means the time period
				during which a governmental unit or the Board of Regents is eligible to incur
				eligible costs and obtain reimbursement from the department for a project under
				a runoff management grant agreement or a local assistance grant
				agreement.
(10) "Grantee" means a
				governmental unit or the Board of Regents that receives funding from the
				department under a runoff management grant agreement or a local assistance
				grant agreement.
(11) "Grantor"
				means the department when serving to provide funds under this chapter to a
				grantee.
(12) "Landowner" means any
				individual, partnership, corporation, municipality or person holding title to
				land.
(13) "Land operator" means
				any individual, partnership, corporation, municipality or person having
				possession of or holding a lease in land and is not a landowner.
(14) "Local assistance grant agreement" means
				an agreement between the department and a governmental unit or the Board of
				Regents for the purpose of providing funds for staffing activities to carry out
				the tasks identified in an urban runoff project selected for funding under this
				chapter.
(15) "Local share" means
				that portion of the best management practice installation cost funded under
				sources other than those authorized in s.
				92.14,
				281.65,
				281.66
				or
				281.665,
				Stats.
(16) "Nonpoint source" means
				a land management activity which contributes to runoff, seepage or percolation
				which adversely affects or threatens the quality of waters of this state and
				which is not a point source under s.
				283.01(12),
				Stats.
(17) "Operation and
				maintenance period" means the length of time an urban best management practice
				included on a cost-share agreement or a runoff management grant agreement shall
				be operated and maintained.
(18)
				"Point source" has the meaning in s.
				283.01(12),
				Stats.
(19) "Population" means
				population shown by the last federal census or by subsequent population
				estimate under s.
				16.96,
				Stats.
(20) "Priority lake area"
				means a hydrologic unit which drains to a lake or group of lakes and serves as
				the project boundary for watershed projects identified through the process in
				s.
				281.65(3m)
				(b), Stats., and implemented through the
				process in ch. NR 120.
(21)
				"Priority watershed" means any watershed that is identified under s.
				281.65(3)
				(am) or (4) (cm) or (co), Stats.
(22) "Priority watershed plan" means the
				detailed portion of the area-wide water quality management plans prepared for
				priority watersheds as described in s.
				NR
				120.08.
(23) "Project" means an urban runoff
				project.
(24) "Project area" means
				the geographic extent of a targeted runoff management project.
(25) "Project completion" means the
				expiration date of a runoff management grant agreement.
(26) "Provider" means a governmental unit
				when serving to administer cost-share funds through a cost-share agreement with
				a private landowner or land operator.
(27) "Recipient" means the receiver of
				cost-share funds from a provider.
(28) "Runoff management grant agreement"
				means an agreement entered into between the department and a governmental unit
				or the Board of Regents which establishes the terms under which funds are
				provided by the department for the installation of urban best management
				practices or the purchase of property or easements in an urban runoff project
				funded under this chapter.
(29)
				"Source area" means a component of urban land use including rooftops,
				sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, storage areas, streets and lawns from which
				urban runoff pollutants are generated during periods of snow melt and rainfall
				runoff.
(30) "Structural urban best
				management practices" means detention basins, wet basins, infiltration basins
				and trenches and wetland basins.
(31) "Urban area" means an area with a
				population density of 1,000 or more per square mile, or an area of industrial
				or commercial land uses, or an area that is surrounded by an area described in
				this definition.
(32) "Urban best
				management practice" means structural urban best management practices and other
				source area measures, transport system and end-of-pipe measures designed to
				control storm water runoff rates, volumes and discharge quality.
(33) "Urban runoff" means runoff from
				rainfall or snow melt that is either a point source discharge as defined under
				s.
				283.01(12),
				Stats., or a nonpoint source discharge as defined under s.
				281.65(2)
				(b), Stats.
(34) "Watershed" means a region or area
				bounded peripherally by a divide and draining ultimately to a water of the
				state.
(35) "Wetland" or "wetlands"
				has the meaning specified under s.
				23.32(1),
				Stats.
(36) "WPDES" means Wisconsin
				pollutant discharge elimination system.