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Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) means the system of conveyances, including
<br />sidewalks, municipal streets, driveways, curb & gutter, ditches, channels, retention basins, catch
<br />basins or similar storm water inlets, and/or any other conveyance delivering water to the public storm
<br />sewer collection and delivery system.
<br />MS4 Permit means the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) permit issued to the City
<br />of Ramsey for monitoring and maintaining water quality in its MS4. The Environmental Protection
<br />Agency (EPA) has promulgated the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES),
<br />Phase II storm water rules. The MPCA has delegated the responsibility to administer the National
<br />Pollution Discharge Elimination System, Phase II storm water permit system to MS4 communities.
<br />NOI means Notice of Intent.
<br />Notice of Intent (NOI) means a written notice to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency that
<br />the City plans on meeting the MS4 permit requirements.
<br />Point Source means any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including but not
<br />limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock,
<br />concentrated animal feedin l o eration landfill leachate collection s stem vessel or other floatin
<br />craft from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include return flows
<br />from irrigated agriculture or agricultural storm water runoff.
<br />Pollution means the alteration of the physical, thermal, chemical, or biological quality of, or
<br />the contamination of, any Waters of the State or the MS4, that renders the water harmful,
<br />detrimental, or injurious to humans, animal life, vegetation, or property, or to the public health,
<br />safety, or welfare, or impairs the usefulness or the public enjoyment of the water for any lawful or
<br />reasonable purpose.
<br />Release means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging,
<br />injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into groundwater, subsurface soils, surface
<br />soils, the municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) or the Waters of the State.
<br />Storm Water Pollution Control Plan (also known as Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan)
<br />means a joint stormwater and erosion and sediment plan that is a document containing the
<br />requirements of Article II, Division 6, Subdivision II of this Chapter, that when implemented will
<br />decrease soil erosion on a parcel of land and off -site nonpoint pollution.
<br />SWPPP means storm water pollution prevention plan.
<br />Section 117 -386 is hereby amended as follows (additions indicated as underline, deletions indicated as
<br />srtrilEe-threugh):
<br />Sec. 117 -386. — General Policy on Stormwater Runoff Volume and Rates Control.
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