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D. Natural Resources Management Plan (Appendices 12.9D) This document presents the Natural Resources Inventory and Management report for five parks within the City of Roseville. The project was initiated to inventory and provide management recommendations for natural communities within Acorn Park, Central Park, Langton Lake Park, Reservoir Woods Park and Villa Park. With this information, the City can continue to actively manage and restore natural communities in parks as well as guide recreation so future generations may enjoy these valuable local resources. The City Staff and residents of Roseville take great pride in their parks, and are rightfully excited about their future. The continued management of natural communities within these parks presents a great opportunity to help that pride grow. Additionally, future efforts should continue to focus on linking natural areas with habitat and recreation corridors. Managing and restoring the unique natural heritage represented in Roseville's parks will provide many opportunities for growth, learning, and citizen involvement while providing cOlmection to the land. The process of restoration itself speaks of optimism and hope, and the ability for all of us to participate in a hands-on fashion, in renewing the landscape while providing a deeper understanding of where it is that we live. To actively engage in creating what author Wallace Stegner referred to as a geography of hope. Through this process we bestow upon ourselves a heightened sense of place. Home. E. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) was established in the 1987 amendments to the Clean Water Act. This required the Environmental Protection Agency to establish the NPDES for point source discharges of storm water. These amendments led to permanent requirements for municipalities greater than 100,000 people and with discharges from industrial activities. In these regulations, construction sites that disturb more than five acres are classified as industrial discharges. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is the administrating authority on NPDES permitting program. The City of Roseville is involved with the NPDES program for any grading activities on sites greater than five acres. The permit is acquired by the property owner or applicant responsible for the proposed project. The City of Roseville applied for the NPDES Phase II permit in 2003. Roseville Comprehensive Plan-2003 Update Environmental Protection - Page 3 of 7