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permit registration statement, if such .statement is required, and, after July 1, 2014, a stormwater management plan or an executed agreement in lieu of a stormwater management plan, and has obtained VSMP authority approval to begin land disturbance. (b) A Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act Land-Disturbing Activity shall be subject to an erosion and sediment control plan consistent with the requirements of Chapter 11, a stormwater management plan as out lined under Section 31.2-6, the technical criteria and administrative requirements for land-disturbing activities outlined in Section 31.2-9, and the requirements for the long-term maintenance of control measures, as outlined under Section 31.2-12. (c) All single-family detached residential land disturbing activities within or outside a common plan of development or sale, do not submit a registration statement. (d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Ordinance, the following activities are exempt, unless otherwise required by federal law: (1) Permitted surface or deep mining operations and projects, or oil and gas operations and projects conducted under the provisions of Title 45.1 of the Code of Virginia; (2) Clearing of lands specifically for agricultural purposes and the management, tilling or planting, or harvesting of agricultural, horticultural, or forest crops, livestock feedlot operations, or as additionally set forth by the State Board in regulations, including engineering operations as follows: construction of terraces, terrace outlets, check dams, desilting basins, dikes, ponds, ditches,. strip cropping, lister furrowing, contour cultivating, contour furrowing, land drainage, and land irrigation; however, this exception shall not apply to harvesting of forest crops unless the area on which harvesting occurs is reforested artificially or naturally in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 11 (§10.1-1100 et seq.) of Title 10.1 of the Code of Virginia or is converted to bona fide agricultural or improved pasture use as described in Subsection B of § 10.1-1163 of Article 9 of Chapter 11 of Title 10.1 of the Code of Virginia; (3) Single-family residences separately built and disturbing less than one acre and not part of a larger common plan of development or sale, including additions or modifications to existing single-family detached residential structures, unless the land disturbance is located in the City's Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas. In the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas, single family residences separately built and disturbing less than 2500 square feet are exempt; (4) Land disturbing activities that disturb less than one acre of land area and not part of a larger common plan of development or sale, except in the Chesapeake