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7 terrain vehicles, motorized wheelchairs, go-carts, gas buggies, golf carts, ski-slope grooming machines, or vehicles that run only on rails or tracks. “Motor vehicle surface” means any pervious or impervious surface that is intended to be used by “motor vehicles” and/or aircraft, and is directly exposed to precipitation including, but not limited to, driveways, parking areas, parking garages, roads, race- tracks, and runways. “Municipality” means any city, borough, town, township, or village. “New Jersey Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMP) Manual” or “BMP Manual” means the manual maintained by the Department providing, in part, design specifications, removal rates, calculation methods, and soil testing procedures approved by the Department as being capable of contributing to the achievement of the stormwater management standards specified in this chapter. The BMP Manual is periodically amended by the Department as necessary to provide design specifications on additional best management practices and new information on already included practices reflecting the best available current information regarding the practice and the Department’s determination as to the ability of that best management practice to contribute to compliance with the standards contained in this chapter. Alternative stormwater management measures, removal rates, or calculation methods may be utilized, subject to any limitations specified in this chapter, provided the design engineer demonstrates to the municipality, in accordance with § 25-29.4f. of this ordinance and N.J.A.C. 7:8-5.2(g), that the proposed measure and its design will contribute to achievement of the design and performance standards established by this chapter. “Node” means an area designated by the State Planning Commission concentrating facilities and activities which are not organized in a compact form. “Nutrient” means a chemical element or compound, such as nitrogen or phosphorus, which is essential to and promotes the development of organisms. “Nutrient load” means the total amount of a nutrient entering a surface or groundwater resource during a given time. Nutrients may enter the water resource from runoff, recharge, point source discharges, or the atmosphere in the form of wet and/or dry deposition. “Person” means any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, political subdivision

echarge, point source discharges, or the atmosphere in the form of wet and/or dry deposition. “Person” means any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, political subdivision of this State and any state, interstate or Federal agency. “Pervious surface” means a surface that is capable of transmitting or infiltrating a significant amount of precipitation into underlying material. “Pollutant” means any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, medical wastes, radioactive substance (except those regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. §§ 2011 et seq.)), thermal waste, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, industrial,