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of the natural environment remains. <br /> <br />"Land Disturbance" means any land change which may result in soil <br />erosion from water or wind and the movement of sediments into <br />state waters or onto lands in the state, including, but not <br />limited to, clearing, grading, excavating, transporting, and <br />filling of land. <br /> <br />"Nonpoint source pollution" means pollution consisting of <br />constituents such as sediment, nutrients, and organic and toxic <br />substances from diffuse sources, such as runoff from agriculture <br />and urban land development and use. <br /> <br />"Nontidal wetlands" means those wetlands other than tidal <br />wetlands that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground <br />water at s frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that <br />under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation <br />typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, as <br />defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to <br />Section 404 of the federal Clean Water Act, in 33 C.F.R. 328.3b, <br />dated Nove~ber 13, 1986. <br /> <br />"Noxious weeds" means weeds that are difficult to control <br />effectively, such as Johnson Grass, Kudzu, and multiflora rose. <br /> <br />"Plan of Development" means the process for site plan or <br />subdivision plat review to ensure compliance with- Section <br />10.1-2109 of the Code of Virginia and this Chapter, prior to any <br />clearing or grading of a site or the issuance of a building <br />permit. <br /> <br />"Redevelopment" means the process of developing land that is or <br />has been previously developed. <br /> <br />"Resource Management Area" or "RMA" means that component of the <br />Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area that is not classified as the <br />Resource Protection Area. RMAs include land types that, if <br />improperly used or developed, have the potential for causing <br />significant water quality degradation or for diminishing the <br />functional value of the Resource Protection Area. <br /> <br />"Resource Protection Area" or "RPA" means that component of the <br />Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area comprised of lands at or near <br />the shoreline that have an intrinsic water quality value due to <br />the ecological and biological processes they perform or that are <br />sensitive to impacts which may result in significant degradation <br />to the quality of state waters. <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br /> <br />