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• Certified plan reviewer means an employee or agent of the program authority implementing the city's local erosion and sediment control program, who (1) holds a certificate of competence from the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board in the area of plan review, (2) is enrolled in that Board's training program for plan review and successfully completes such program within one (1) year after enrollment, or (3) is licensed as a professional engineer, architect, certified landscape architect or land surveyor pursuant to Virginia Code § 54.1-400, et seq. Certified program administrator means an employee of the department of neighborhood development services who (1) holds a certification of competence from the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board in the area of program administration, or (2) is enrolled in that Board's training program for program administration and successfully completes such program within one (1) year after enrollment. Channel means a natural stream or human -made waterway. Conservation plan, erosion and sediment control plan or plan and specifications means a document containing material for the conservation of soil and water resources of a unit or group of units of land. It may include appropriate maps, an appropriate soil and water plan inventory and management information with necessary interpretations, and a record of decisions contributing to conservation treatment. The plan shall contain all major conservation decisions to assure that the entire unit or units of land will be so treated to achieve the conservation objectives. Conservation standards, criteria or specifications means the criteria, guidelines, techniques, and methods for the control of erosion and sedimentation whether promulgated by the program • authority or contained in (1) the Virginia Erosion and Sediment Control Handbook and other regulations promulgated by the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board or (2) the Stormwater Management Handbook and other regulations promulgated by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. Development, land development and land development project as used within this chapter each refer to any manmade change to, or construction on, a land surface that potentially changes its runoff characteristics. Director, for the purposes of article V of this chapter, shall mean and include the city's director of public works and director of neighborhood development services, and the employees and agents authorized by either of them to exercise authority or to take enforcement action under the provisions of article V. Discharge means to dispose, deposit, spill, pour, inject, dump, leak or place by any means, and also refers to that which is disposed, deposited, spilled, poured, injected, dumped, leaked or placed by any means. Erosion impact area means an area of land not associated with current land -disturbing activity but subject to persistent soil erosion resulting in the delivery of sediment onto neighboring properties or into state waters. This definition shall not apply to any lot or parcel of land of six thousand (6,000) square feet or less used for residential purposes. Illegal discharge and illicit discharge each means and refers to any discharge to the City's municipal storm sewer system ("MS4") that is not composed entirely of stormwater, except: (i) • -3-