Michigan Administrative Code
Department - Environmental Quality
Water Resources Division
Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (Clean Water Fund)
Section R. 324.8906 - Definitions; U to Z
Current through Vol. 24-04, March 15, 2024
Rule 6. As used in these rules:
(a) "USDA" means the United States department of agriculture.
(b) "US EPA" means the United States environmental protection agency.
(c) "Vendor" means the recipient of funds made available by the department through procurement
(d) "Water quality standards" means the part 4 water quality standards developed under part 31 of 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.3101 to 324.3119.
(e) "Watershed" means a topographic area of land that drains to a common point, such as a lake, pond, river, or stream, including the surface waters within that topographic area.
(f) "Watershed management plan" means a water resource plan that sets forth management strategies for improving water quality or achieving water quality standards and designated uses in a watershed.
(g) "Wellhead protection area" means an area which has been approved by the department under the state of Michigan wellhead protection program, which represents the surface and subsurface area surrounding a water well or well field, which supplies a community public water supply, and through which contaminants are reasonably likely to move toward and reach the water well or well field within a 10-year time of travel or means a designated source water protection area surrounding a low-tritium public water supply well.
