For the purposes of this chapter, certain terms and words used herein shall be interpreted as follows:
A. Words used in the present tense include the future tense; the singular number includes the plural, and the plural number includes the singular; words of masculine gender include feminine gender; and words of feminine gender include masculine gender.
B. The word "includes" or "including" shall not limit the term to the specific example but is intended to extend its meaning to all other instances of like kind and character.
C. The word "person' includes an individual, firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, company, corporation, or any other similar entity.
D. The words "shall" and "must" are mandatory; the words "may" and "should" are permissive.
E. The words "used" or "occupied" include the words "intended, "designed", "maintained", or "arranged to be used", "occupied" or "maintained".
ACCELERATED EROSION The removal of the surface of the land through the combined action of man's activity and the natural processes of a rate greater than would occur because of the natural process alone.
ALLUVIAL SOILS (FLOODPLAIN SOILS) Areas subject to periodic flooding and listed in the Soil Survey of Bucks and Philadelphia Counties, Pennsylvania, U.S. Department of Agricultural Soil Conservation Service as being "on, or in, the floodplain" or subject to flooding.
ALTERATION As applied to land, a change in topography as a result of the moving of soil and rock from one location or position to another; also the changing of surface conditions by causing the surface to be more or less impervious; or earth disturbance.
APPLICANT A landowner or developer who has filed an application for approval to engage in any Regulated Activities as defined in Section 104 of this Ordinance.
AS-BUILT PLAN Plans that are maintained during construction of the project and which document the actual locations of the site improvements. As-built plan must be prepared by a professional land surveyor, landscape architect, or professional engineer licensed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
BANKFULL The channel at the top of bank or point where water begins to overflow onto a floodplain.
BASE FLOW The portion of stream flow that is sustained by groundwater discharge.
BIORENTENTION A stormwater retention area which utilizes woody and herbaceous plants and soils to remove pollutants before infiltration occurs.
BMP (BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE) Activities, facilities, measures or procedures used to manage stormwater impacts from land development, to protect and maintain water quality and groundwater recharge and to otherwise meet the purposes of this Ordinance, to including, but not limited to, infiltration, filter strips, low impact design, biorentention, wet ponds, permeable paving, grassed swales, forested buffers, sand filters, and detention basins.
CHANNEL EROSION The widening, deepening, and headward cutting of channels and waterways, due to erosion caused by moderate to large floods.
CISTERN An underground reservoir or tank for storing rainwater. Conservation District Bucks County Conservation District. County Bucks County
CULVERT A pipe, conduit, or similar structure including appurtenant works which conveys surface water under or through an embankment or fill.
DAM An artificial barrier, together with its appurtenant works, constructed for the purpose of impounding or storing water or another fluid or semifluid, or a refuse bank, fill or structure for highway, railroad, or other purposes which does or may impound water or another fluid or semifluid.
DEP The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Department The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
DESIGN PROFESSIONAL (QUALIFIED) A Professional Engineer, Landscape Architect, or a Professional Land Surveyor licensed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and trained to develop stormwater management plans.
DESIGN STORM The magnitude and temporal distribution of precipitation from a storm event measured in probability of occurrence (e.g. 50-year storm) and duration (e.g. 24-hours), used in the design and evaluation of stormwater management systems.
DESIGNEE The agent of the governing body involved with the administration, review, or enforcement of any provisions of this Ordinance by contract or memorandum of understanding.
DETENTION BASIN An impoundment structure designed to manage stormwater runoff by temporarily storing the runoff and releasing it at a predetermined rate.
DETENTION DISTRICT Those subareas in which some type of detention is required to meet the plan requirements and goals of Act 167.
DEVELOPER A person, partnership, association, corporation, or other entity, or any responsible person therein or agent thereof, that undertakes any regulated activity of this Ordinance.
DEVELOPMENT Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate including, but not limited to, the construction or placement of buildings or other structures, mobile homes, streets and other paving, utilities, mining, dredging, filling, grading, excavation, or drilling operations, and the subdivision of land.
DEVELOPMENT PLAN The provisions for development including a planned residential development, a plat of subdivision, all covenants relating to use, location and bulk of buildings and other structures, intensity of use or density of development, streets, ways and parking facilities, common open space and public facilities. The phrase "provisions of development plan" when used in this Ordinance shall mean the written and graphic materials referred to in this definition.
DEVELOPMENT SITE The specific tract of land for which a regulated activity is proposed.
DIFFUSED DRAINAGE DISCHARGE Drainage discharge not confined to a single point location or channel, such as sheet flow or shallow concentrated flew.
DISTURBED AREAS Unstabilized land area where an earth disturbance activity is occurring or has occurred.
DOWNSLOPE PROPERTY LINE That portion of the property line of the lot, tract, or parcels of land being developed where all overland or pipe flow from the proposed development is directed.
DOWNSTREAM HYDRAULIC CAPACITY ANALYSIS Any downstream capacity hydraulic analysis conducted in accordance with this Ordinance shall use the following criteria for determining adequacy for accepting increased peak flow rates:
1. Natural or man-made channels or swales must be able to convey the increased rate of runoff associated with a 2-year return period event within their banks at velocities consistent with protection of the channels from erosion. Acceptable velocities shall be based upon criteria included in the DEP Erosion and Sediment Pollution Control Program Manual.
2. Natural or man-made channels or swales must be able to convey the increased 25year return period rate of runoff without creating any hazard to persons or property.
3. Culverts, bridges, storm sewers or any other facilities which must pass or convey flows from the tributary area must be designed in accordance with DEP, Chapter 105 regulations (if applicable) and, at a minimum, pass the increased 25-year, return period rate of runoff.
4. No new channels or conveyance facilities shall be authorized by this language.
DRAINAGE CONVEYANCE FACILITY A stormwater management facility designed to transmit stormwater runoff which shall include streams, channels, swales, pipes, conduits, culverts, storm sewers, etc.
DRAINAGE EASEMENT A right granted by a landowner to a grantee, allowing the use of private land for stormwater management purposes.
DRY POND (DRY EXTENDED DETENTION POND) Dry extended detention ponds do not maintain a permanent pool between storm events. Outlets are designed to detain the volume of a water quality design storm for a minimum (usually 48 hours) to allow for the settling of particles and associated pollutants. In addition, dry extended detention ponds provide flood control by including additional temporary storage for peak flows above the dead storage. Extended detention ponds are also capable of managing smaller floods that contribute to channel erosion problems and occur more frequently than the annual or 2-year flood.
EARTH DISTURBANCE A construction or other human activity which disturbs and destabilizes the surface of the land including, but not limited to, clearing and grubbing, grading, excavations, embankments, land development, road maintenance, and the moving, depositing, stockpiling or storing of soil, rock or earth materials.
EMERGENCY SPILLWAY A conveyance area that is used to pass peak discharge greater than the maximum design storm controlled by the stormwater facility.
ENGINEER A licensed professional civil engineer registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
EROSION The process by which the surface of the land, including channels, is worn away by water, wind or chemical action.
EROSION AND SEDIMENT POLLUTION CONTROL PLAN A site-specific plan identifying the BMPs to minimize accelerated erosion and sedimentation, pursuant to 25 Pa Code Chapter 102.
EXCEPTIONAL VALUE WATERS Surface waters of high quality which satisfy Pennsylvania Code Title 25 Environmental Protection, Chapter 93 Water Quality Standards, §93.4b(b) (relating to antidegradation).
EXISTING CONDITIONS The initial condition of a project site prior to the proposed construction. Farm field, disturbed earth, or undeveloped cover conditions of a site or portions of a site used for modeling purposes, shall be considered "meadow" unless the natural groundcover generates lower curve numbers or Rational "C" value, such as forested land. Existing man-made impervious surfaces shall be considered as "meadow" when developing "cover complex" calculations.
FLOOD A general but temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from the overflow of streams, rivers, and other waters of this commonwealth.
FLOODPLAIN Any land area susceptible to inundation by water from any natural source or delineated as a special flood hazard area on the applicable National Flood Insurance Program Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Also included are areas that comprise Group 13 Soils, as listed in Appendix A of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) Technical Manual for Sewage Enforcement Officers (as amended or replaced from time to time by PADEP).
FLOODWAY The channel of the watercourse and those portions of the adjoining floodplains that are reasonably required to carry and discharge the 100-year frequency flood. Unless otherwise specified, the boundary of the floodway is as indicated on maps and flood insurance studies provided by FEMA. In an area where no FEMA maps or studies have defined the boundary of the 100-year frequency floodway, it is assumedabsent evidence to the contrary-that the floodway extends from the stream to 50 feet from the top of the bank of the stream.
FREEBOARD A vertical distance between the elevation of the design high-water and the top of a dam, levee, tank, basin, or diversion ridge. The space is required as a safety margin in a pond or basin.
GEOLOGIST A licensed professional geologist registered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
GRADE The slope of a street, other public way, land area, drainage facility or pipe specified in percent.
GRASSED WATERWAY A natural or constructed waterway, usually broad and shallow, covered with erosion-resistant grasses, used to conduct surface water.
GROUNDWATER RECHARGE Replenishment of natural underground water supplies.
HEC-HMS The US Army Corps of Engineers, Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) Hydrologic Modeling System (HMS).
HIGH QUALITY WATERS Surface waters having quality which exceeds levels necessary to support propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and recreation in and on the water by satisfying Pennsylvania Code Title 25 Environmental Protection, Chapter 93, Water Quality Standards, §93.4b(a).
HYDRIC SOIL A soil that is saturated, flooded, or ponded long enough during the growing season to develop an anaerobic condition in the upper part.
HYDROLOGIC REGIME (NATURAL) The hydrologic cycle or balance that sustains quality and quantity of stormwater, baseflow, storage, and groundwater supplies under the natural conditions.
HYDROLOGIC SOIL GROUP A classification of soils by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, formerly the Soil Conservation Service, into four runoff potential groups. The groups range from A soils, which are very permeable and produce little runoff, to D soils, which are not very permeable and produce much more runoff.
HYETOGRAPH A graphical representation of average rainfall, rainfall excess rates, or volumes over specified areas during successive units of time during a storm.
IMPERVIOUS SURFACE Impervious surfaces are those surfaces which do not absorb precipitation and surface water. All buildings, parking areas, driveways, roads, sidewalks, swimming pools, and any areas containing concrete, asphalt, packed stone, compacted soils, or other equivalent surfaces (not designed as a BMP), shall be considered impervious within this definition. In addition, other areas determined by the Township Engineer to be impervious within the meaning of this definition will be classified as impervious surfaces.
IMPOUNDMENT A retention or detention basin designed to retain stormwater runoff and release it at a controlled rate.
INFILTRATION STRUCTURES A structure designed to direct runoff into the ground (e.g. french drains, seepage pits, seepage trench, biofiltration swale, infiltration basins).
INLET A surface connection to a closed drain. A structure at the diversion end of a conduit. The upstream end of any structure through which water may flow.
LAND DEVELOPMENT - Any of the following activities:
1. The improvement of one (1) or two (2) or more contiguous lots, tracts or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
A. A group of two (2) or more residential or nonresidential buildings, whether purposed initially or cumulatively, or a single nonresidential building on a lot or lots regardless of the number of occupants or tenure; or
B. The division or allocation of land or space, whether initially or cumulatively, between or among two (2) or more existing or prospective occupants by means of, or for the purpose of streets, common areas, leaseholds, condominiums, building groups or other features.
2. A subdivision of land.
3. "Land development" does not include development which involves:
A. The conversion of an existing single family detached dwelling or single family semi-detached dwelling into not more than three (3) residential units, unless such units are intended to be a condominium;
B. The addition of a residential accessory building, including farm building, on a lot or lots subordinate to an existing principal building; or
C. The addition or conversion of buildings or rides within the confines of an enterprise which would be considered an amusement park. For the purposes of this subsection, an amusement park is defined as a tract or area used principally as a location for permanent amusement structures or rides. This exclusion shall not apply to newly acquired acreage by an amusement park until initial plans for the expanded area have been approved by the proper authorities.
LAND/EARTH DISTURBANCE Any activity involving grading, tilling, digging, or filling of ground or stripping of vegetation or any other activity that causes an alteration to and destabilization of the natural condition of the land.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT A person who engages or offers to engage in the practice of landscape architecture in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the authority of the Landscape Architects Registration Law (63 P.S. §§ 901-913).
LIMIT OF EARTH DISTURBANCE The perimeter of earth disturbance on a site.
LIMITING ZONE A soil horizon or condition in the soil profile or underlying strata which includes one of the following:
(i) A seasonal high water table, whether perched or regional, determined by direct observation of the water table or indicated by soil mottling.
(ii) A rock with open joints, fracture or solution channels, or masses of loose rock fragments, including gravel, with insufficient fine soil to fill the voids between the fragments.
(iii) A rock formation, other stratum or soil condition which is so slowly permeable that is effectively limits downward passage of effluent.
MAIN STEM (MAIN CHANNEL) Any stream segment or other runoff conveyance facility used as a reach in the watershed hydrologic model.
MANNING EQUATION (MANNING FORMULA) A method for calculation of velocity of flow (e.g., feet per second) and flow rate (e.g., cubic feet per second) in open channels based upon channel shape, roughness, depth of flow and slope. "Open channels" may include closed conduits when the flow is not under pressure.
MUNICIPALITY Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION Pollution that enters a watery body from diffuse origins in the watershed and does not result from discernible, confined, or discrete conveyances.
NRCS Natural Resource Conservation Service (previously SCS).
OPEN CHANNEL A drainage element in which stormwater flows with an open surface. Open channels include, but shall not be limited to, natural and man-made drainageways, swales, streams, ditches, canals, and pipes flowing partly full.
OUTFALL Point where water flows from a conduit, stream, or drain.
PARENT TRACT The parcel of land from which a land development or subdivision originates as of the date of adoption of this Ordinance.
PEAK DISCHARGE The maximum rate of stormwater runoff from a specific storm event.
PENN STATE RUNOFF MODEL (CALIBRATED) The computer-based hydrologic modeling technique adapted to the watershed for the Act 167 Plan. The model has been "calibrated" to reflect actual recorded flow values by adjoining key model input parameters.
PERMANENTLY PRESERVED LAND A parcel or tract of land that is subject to a recorded conservation easement, in perpetuity, in a manner acceptable to the Township
PERSON An individual, partnership, association, corporation or other entity.
PIPE A culvert, closed conduit, or similar structure (including appurtenances) that conveys stormwater.
PLANNING COMMISSION The Planning Commission of Solebury Township.
PMF (PROBABLE MAXIMUM FLOOD) The flood that may be expected from the most severe combination of critical meteorologic and hydrologic conditions that are reasonably possible in any area. The PMF is derived from the probable maximum precipitation (PMP) as determined on the basis of data obtained from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
PRETREATMENT Techniques employed in stormwater BMPs to provide storage or filtering to trap coarse materials and other pollutants before they enter the stormwater management or infiltration system.
PROJECT SITE The specific tract of land where any regulated activity in the Township is planned, conducted or maintained.
RATIONAL FORMULA A rainfall-runoff relation used to estimate peak flow.
RECHARGE AREA Undisturbed surface area or depression where stormwater collects, and a portion of which infiltrates and replenishes the underground and groundwater.
RECHARGE VOLUME A calculated volume of stormwater runoff from impervious areas which is required to be infiltrated at a site and may be achieved through use of structural or non-structural BMPs.
REGULATED ACTIVITIES Any activity to which this Ordinance is applicable pursuant to Section 104 of this Ordinance.
RELEASE RATE The percentage of predevelopment peak rate of runoff from a site or subarea to which the post development peak rate of runoff must be reduced to protect downstream areas.
RETENTION BASIN A basin designed to retain stormwater runoff so that a permanent pool is established.
RETURN PERIOD The average interval, in years, within which a storm event of a given magnitude can be expected to recur. For example, the 25-year return period rainfall would be expected to recur on the average once every 25 years.
RISER A vertical pipe extending from the bottom of a pond that is used to control the discharge rate from the pond for a specified design storm.
RUNOFF Any part of precipitation that flows over the land surface.
SEDIMENT BASIN A barrier, dam, or retention or detention basin located and designed to retain rock, sand, gravel, silt, or other material transported by water.
SEDIMENT POLLUTION The placement, discharge or any other introduction of sediment into the Waters of the Commonwealth.
SEDIMENTATION The process by which mineral or organic matter is accumulated or deposited by the movement of water.
SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM A system of pipes, open channels, streets, and other conveyances intended to carry stormwater runoff.
SHEET FLOW Runoff that flows over the ground surface as a thin, even layer, not concentrated in a channel.
SOIL-COVER COMPLEX METHOD A method of runoff computation developed by the NRCS that is based on relating soil type and land use/cover to a runoff parameter called a Curve Number (CN).
SOIL GROUP, HYDROLOGIC A classification of soils by the NRCS into four runoff potential groups. The groups range from A soils, which are very permeable and produce little runoff, to D soils, which are not very permeable and produce much more runoff.
SOIL SCIENTIST An individual trained to observe and identify soil properties that can be used to determine such things as depth to seasonal high water table, soil permeability, potential productivity, and other potentially use- limiting soil features.
SURVEYOR An individual licensed and registered under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to engage in the practice of land surveying.
STORAGE INDICATION METHOD A reservoir routing procedure based on solution of the continuity equation (inflow minus outflow equals the change in storage) with outflow defined as a function of storage volume and depth.
STORM FREQUENCY The number of times that a given storm event occurs or is exceeded on the average in a stated period of years. Refer "Return Period."
STORM SEWER A system of pipes and/or open channels that convey intercepted runoff and stormwater from other sources, but excludes domestic sewage and industrial wastes.
STORMWATER The total amount of precipitation reaching the ground surface.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT FACILITY Any structure, natural or man-made, that, due to its condition, design, or construction, conveys, stores, or otherwise affects stormwater runoff. Typical stormwater management facilities include, but are not limited to, detention and retention basins, open channels, storm sewers, pipes, infiltration structures, and other BMPs.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PERMIT A permit issued by the township governing body after the drainage plan has been approved. Said permit is issued prior to or with the final township approval.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PLAN The plan for managing stormwater runoff within the Township adopted as required by the Act of October 4, 1978, P.L. 864, (Act 167).
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT SITE PLAN The plan prepared by the Developer or his engineer indicating how stormwater runoff will be managed at the particular site of interest according to this Ordinance.
STREAM Rivers, creeks, springs, and other watercourses containing water at least on a seasonal basis during an average water year. The term "stream" shall include the following:
A. SPRINGS OR SEEPS The point where groundwater discharges to become surface water.
B. STREAM, EPHEMERAL A reach of stream that flows only during and for short periods following precipitation, and flows in low areas that may or may not be a well defined channel. Ephemeral stream beds are located above the water table year-round. Groundwater is not a source of water for the stream. Some commonly used names for ephemeral streams include: stormwater channel, drain, swale, gully, dry stream channel, hollow, or saddle. The term often used interchangeably with intermittent stream but the difference is in the length of time of continuous flow (less than one month per year).
C. STREAM, HEADWATER The beginning reach of a stream that collects water from springs and seeps and provides a hydrologic connection to a perennial stream. These channels may be ill defined and may move from year to year depending upon groundwater input, snowmelt, and runoff, but are typified by hydric soils and hydric vegetation.
D. STREAM, INTERMITTENT A reach of stream that flows only during wet periods of the year (30% - 90% of the time) and flows in a continuous well-defined channel. During dry periods, especially in summer months, intermittent streams may go down to a trickle of water and make it appear dry, when in fact there is water flowing through the stream bottom or "substrate". This is usually caused by the seasonal changes of the local soil water table or during periods of long-term drought.
E. STREAM, PERENNIAL A body of water in a channel that flows throughout a majority of the year in a defined channel and is capable, in the absence of pollution, drought, or manmade stream disturbances, of supporting a benthic macroinvertebrate community that is composed of two or more recognizable taxonomic groups of organisms, large enough to be seen by the unaided eye and can be retained by a U.S. Standard No. 30 sieve (28 meshs per inch, 0.595 mm openings) and live at least part of their life cycles within or upon available substrates in a body of water or water transport system. A perennial stream can have Q7-10 flow of zero. For the purposes of this document, a perennial stream includes lakes and ponds.
STREAM ENCLOSURE A bridge, culvert or other structure in excess of 100 feet in length upstream to downstream which encloses a regulated water of this commonwealth.
SUBAREA The smallest drainage unit of a watershed for which stormwater management criteria have been established in the stormwater management plan.
SUBDIVISION The division or redivision of a lot, tract, or parcel of land by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions of land including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of lease, transfer of ownership, or building or lot development, provided, however, that the subdivision by lease of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than ten acres, not involving any new street or easement of access or any residential dwellings, shall be exempt.
SWALE A low-lying stretch of land which gathers or carries surface water runoff.
TIME OF CONCENTRATION (TC) The time for surface runoff to travel from the hydraulically most distant point of the watershed to a point of interest within the watershed. This time is the combined total of overland flow time and flow time in pipes or channels, if any.
TOWNSHIP ENGINEER A professional engineer licensed as such in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and appointed by the Township pursuant to Article V of the Second Class Township Code.
TOWNSHIP Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
TRIBUTARY AREA The portion of a watershed that contributes runoff to a particular point in that watershed.
VOLUMETRIC RUNOFF COEFFICIENT A variable indicative of stormwater runoff volume and dependent on the impervious coverage for a site.
WATER QUALITY VOLUME A calculated volume of stormwater runoff from impervious areas which is required to be captured and treated at a site and may be achieved through use of structural or non-structural BMPs.
WATERCOURSE An intermittent, ephemeral or perennial stream of water, river, brook, creek, or swale identified on USGS or SCS mapping; and/or delineated Waters of the Commonwealth.
WATER QUALITY REQUIREMENTS As defined under state regulations protection of designated and existing uses (Refer 25 Pa Code Chapters 93 and 96):
a. Each stream segment in Pennsylvania has a "designated use, such as "cold water fishery" or "potable water supply", which are listed in Chapter 93 These uses must be protected and maintained, under state regulations.
b. "Existing uses" are those attained as of November, 1975, regardless whether they have been designated in Chapter 93. Land development must be designed to protect and maintain existing uses and maintain the level of water quality necessary to protect those uses in all streams, and to protect and maintain water quality in special protection streams.
c. .Water quality involves the chemical, biological, and physical characteristics of surface water bodies. After land development, these characteristics can be impacted by addition of pollutants such as sediment, and changes in habitat through increased flow volumes and/or rates. Therefore, discharge to surface waters must be designed and managed to protect the streambank, streambed, and structural integrity of the waterway, to prevent these impacts.
WATERSHED Region or area bounded peripherally by water parting and draining to a particular watercourse or body of water.
WATERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH Any and all rivers, streams, creeks, rivulets, impoundments, ditches, watercourses, storm sewers, lakes, dammed water, wetlands, ponds, springs, and all other bodies or channels of conveyance of surface and underground water, or parts thereof, whether natural or artificial, within or on the boundaries of this Commonwealth.
WET POND (WET EXTENDED DETENTION POND) A wet extended pond combines the pollutant removal effectiveness of a permanent pool of water with the flow reduction capabilities of an extended storage volume.
WETLAND Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, including swamps, marshes, bogs, ferns, and similar areas.
WETLAND DELINEATION The onsite method or process for identifying wetlands. Wetlands must be delineated by a qualified specialist according to the 1989 Federal Manuals (as amended) for the Delineation of Jurisdictional Wetlands (whichever is greater) or according to any subsequent Federal or State regulation. Qualified specialist shall include those persons being Certified Professional Soil Scientists as registered with Registry of Certified Professionals in Agronomy Crops and Soils (ARCPACS); or as contained on consultant's list of Pennsylvania Association of Professional Soil Scientists (PAPSS); or as registered with National Society of Consulting Soil Scientists (NSCSS), or as certified by State and/or Federal certification programs; or by a qualified Biologist/Ecologist.
