NR 155.12(16)(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. NR 155.12(17)(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. NR 155.12(19)(19) “Population” means population shown by the last federal census or by subsequent population estimate under s. 16.96, Stats. NR 155.12(20)(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. NR 155.12(22)(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. NR 155.12(24)(24) “Project area” means the geographic extent of a targeted runoff management project. NR 155.12(25)(25) “Project completion” means the expiration date of a runoff management grant agreement. NR 155.12(26)(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. NR 155.12(27)(27) “Recipient” means the receiver of cost-share funds from a provider. NR 155.12(28)(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. NR 155.12(29)(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. NR 155.12(30)(30) “Structural urban best management practices” means detention basins, wet basins, infiltration basins and trenches and wetland basins. NR 155.12(31)(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. NR 155.12(32)(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. NR 155.12(33)(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. NR 155.12(34)(34) “Watershed” means a region or area bounded peripherally by a divide and draining ultimately to a water of the state. NR 155.12(36)(36) “WPDES” means Wisconsin pollutant discharge elimination system. NR 155.12 HistoryHistory: CR 00-025: cr. Register September 2002 No. 561, eff. 10-1-02; CR 09-112: am. (7) Register December 2010 No. 660, eff. 1-1-11; 2015 Wis. Act 330 s. 20: am. (1), (2), (9), (10), (14), (28) Register April 2016 No. 724, eff. 5-1-16. NR 155.13(1)(1) A governmental unit or a federally recognized tribal governing body is eligible to apply for and receive a runoff management grant and local assistance grant administered under this chapter if at least one of the following conditions is met: NR 155.13(1)(a)(a) The grant application is for a local governmental unit having jurisdiction over the project area. NR 155.13(1)(b)(b) The grant application is for a local governmental unit not having jurisdiction over the project area if both of the following conditions are met: NR 155.13(1)(b)1.1. The local governmental unit is required to control storm water discharges under s. 283.33, Stats. NR 155.13(1)(b)2.2. Inter-governmental agreements are in place, or will be put in place, as needed to assure urban best management practices included on the grant are installed and maintained. NR 155.13(2)(2) The Board of Regents is eligible to apply for and receive a runoff management grant and a local assistance grant administered under this chapter if all of the following conditions are met: