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"Virginia Stormwater Management Program authority" or "VSMP authority" means authority [such as the City of Portsmouth] approved by the State Board after September 13, 2011, to operate a Virginia Stormwater Management Program. Sec. 31.2-2. Purpose and authorities. (a) The purpose of this ordinance is to ensure the general health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Portsmouth and to protect the quality and quantity of state waters from the potential harm of unmanaged Stormwater, including protection from any land disturbing activity causing unreasonable degradation of properties, water quality, stream channels, and other natural resources, and to establish procedures whereby stormwater requirements related to water quality and quantity should be administered and enforced. (b) This ordinance is adopted pursuant to Article 2.3 (§62.1-44.15:24 et seq.) of Chapter 3.1 of Title 62.1 of the Code of Virginia and in compliance with 9VAC-25-870-20 and 9VAC.25-870-40 of the Virginia Stormwater Management Regulations. (c) The Federal Clean Water Act requires the city to implement a stormwater management program based on the regulations and requirements published by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. (d) The city is authorized by the Code of Virginia to construct, reconstruct, improve and extend a stormwater utility system and to issue revenue bonds, if needed, to finance in whole or in part the cost of such system and to establish just and equitable rates, fees and charges for the services and facilities provided by the system. (e) It is necessary and essential that the city provide for effective management and financing of a stormwater system within the city to provide a mechanism for mitigating the damaging effects of stormwater runoff on the environment and to improve the public health, safety and welfare by providing for the sage and efficient capture and conveyance of stormwater runoff, the improvement of water quality, and the correction of stormwater problems. (f) Stormwater runoff is associated with all developed properties in the city, whether residential or nonresidential, and the volume of each individual property's Stormwater runoff is related to the amount of impervious and semi-pervious surface on the property. (g) The .Administrator shall be responsible for the use, management, operation and maintenance of the Stormwater system as prescribed by this chapter. The Administrator shall have authority to establish procedures and to enforce regulations pertaining to the Stormwater system. Sec. 31.2-3. Stormwater permit requirement; exemptions. (a) Except as provided herein, a person shall not conduct any land-disturbing activity until they have submitted a permit application to the VSMP authority that includes a state VSMP