Vermont Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1450a
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1450a
- Best management practices: means approved activities, maintenance procedures, and other practices to prevent or reduce the effects of impervious surface or cleared area on water quality and natural resources. See
- Cleared area: means an area where existing vegetative cover, soil, tree canopy, or duff is permanently removed or altered. See
- Expansion: means an increase or addition of impervious surface or cleared area. See
- Impervious surface: means those manmade surfaces, including paved and unpaved roads, parking areas, roofs, driveways, and walkways, from which precipitation runs off rather than infiltrates. See
- Protected shoreland area: means all land located within 250 feet of the mean water level of a lake that is greater than 10 acres in surface area. See
- Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources or the Secretary's duly authorized representative. See
- Vegetative cover: means mixed vegetation within the protected shoreland area, consisting of trees, shrubs, groundcover, and duff. See
§ 1450a. Rulemaking
The Secretary may adopt rules necessary for the purposes of implementing, administering, or enforcing the requirements of this chapter, including best management practices for the construction of impervious surfaces or the creation of cleared area in a protected shoreland area, including standards for:
(1) managing vegetative cover that may be required as a best management practice in order to ensure that some level of the required vegetative cover is maintained in the protected shoreland area;
(2) allowing reasonable use of the protected shoreland area subject to a vegetative cover requirement for construction, creation, or expansion of an impervious surface or cleared area;
(3) minimizing and mitigating the creation of an impervious surface or cleared area in a protected shoreland area. (Added 2013, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)