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<br />(h.) Hydrophytic Vegetation. Macrophytic plant life growing in water, <br />soil or on a substrate that is a least periodically deficient in oxygen <br />as a result of excessive water content. <br /> <br />(i.) Land Disturbing or Development Activities. Any change of the <br />land surface, including removing vegetative cover, excavating, <br />filling, grading, and the construction of any structure. <br /> <br />G.) Person. Any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, franchisee, <br />and association. <br /> <br />(k.) Plan. A storm water management plan as governed by this <br />Section. <br /> <br />(1.) Public Waters. Waters of the State as defined in Minnesota <br />Statutes, Section 103G.005. <br /> <br />(m.) Regional Flood. A flood that is representative of large floods <br />known to have occurred generally in the State and reasonably <br />characteristic of what can be expected to occur on an average <br />frequency in the magnitude of a 100- year recurrence interval. <br /> <br />(n.) Retention Facility. A permanent natural or man-made structure <br />that provides for the storage of storm water runoff. <br /> <br />(0.) Sediment. Solid matter carried by water, sewage or other liquids. <br /> <br />(p.) Structure. Anything manufactured, constructed or erected which is <br />normally attached to or positioned on land, including portable <br />structures, earthen structures, roads, parking lots and paved storage <br />areas. <br /> <br />(q.) This Section. Section 423. <br /> <br />(r.) Wetlands. Lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic <br />systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface or <br />the land is covered by shallow water. For purposes of this <br />definition, wetlands must have the following three (3) attributes: <br /> <br />1. have a predominance of hydric soils; <br /> <br />2. are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a <br />frequency and duration sufficient to support a prevalence of <br />hydrophytic vegetation typically adapted for life in <br />saturated soil conditions; and <br />