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DEPARTMENT - The County Community Health Sanitarian and/or the Planning and Zoning Administrator, or other designated agent who is a qualified employee or licensee. FAILING SYSTEM - Any ISTS that discharges sewage to a seepage pit, cesspool, drywell or leaching pit and any system with less than three feet of soil or sand between the bottom of the distribution medium and the saturated soil level or bedrock. In addition any system posing an imminent threat to public health or safety as defined in MN. RULES 7080.0020 Subp. 19a shall be considered failing. INCORPORATION - The mixing of manure or septage with the topsoil, concurrent with the application or immediately thereafter, by means such as discing', plowing, rototilling,injection or other mechanical mc. ailS. INDIVIDUAL SEWAQE TREATMENT SYSTEM (ISTS) - A sewage treatment system, or part thereof, serving a dwelling, or other establishment, or group thereof, and using sewage tanks or advanced treatment followed by soil treatment and disposal. Individual sewage treatment system includes holding tanks and privies. INSPECTOR - An individual qualified to review proposed plans and inspect ISTS and who meet the licensure and registration requirements of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. LAND SPREADING - The placement of septage or human waste from septic or holding tanks on or into the soil surface. LAND USE DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION - The term includes, but not limited.to applications for the following: construction permits, ISTS permits, vegetative alteration permits, topographic alterations permits, or other types of zoning permits, conditional use permits, amendments to this Ordinance, variances from the provisions of Ordinance, and the subdivision of real estate. The application is not considered complete and will not be accepted by the Planning and Zoning Department unless all fees are paid, preliminary reviews and approvals completed, submitted with associated supporting information and documents, and such other information as required by .the Planning .and Zoning Administrator. MOTTLING - As applied to soils, means a zone of chemical and reduction activity, appearing as splotchy patches of red, brown, or grey in the soil. In subsoils' with a color value of four or more, the term mottling also includes soil having matrix colors with a chroma of two or less as described in "Keys to Soil Taxonomy" 5th Edition, 1992 Soil Management Support Services, technical monograph No. 19, which is incorporated by reference. MPCA - Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. _0UALIFlrED EMPLOYEE - An employee of state or local government who conducts site evaluations or designs; installs, maintains, pumps, or inspects individual sewage treatment systems as part of L L /-