Common use of WATERSHED PLAN REVISION Clause in Contracts

WATERSHED PLAN REVISION. (a) Plan revisions may be ini- tiated by either the governmental unit or the department. The approved watershed plan may be revised using the procedures in ss. NR 121.07 and 121.08 for amending areawide water quality management plans. (b) Plan revisions which add or change criteria for critical sites shall be approved by the land and water conservation board and by every governmental unit which approved the original water- shed plan. (c) Plan revisions which add or change criteria for critical sites for projects which have fewer than 4 years remaining for imple- mentation shall include a schedule for notification to landowners which will allow implementation of best management practices at the critical sites to be completed before the end of the nonpoint source grant period. (d) The department shall approve or reject a governmental unit’s request for a revision to the watershed project’s detailed program for implementation within 90 days of receipt of the revi- sion request. r. and recr. (1) (a) 8., cr. (1) (b) 1. g. to L., (2) (d) and (e), renum. (2) (cr), (d) and (e) to be (2) (f), (3) and (4) and am. (2) (f), and (4), Register, February, 1995, No. 470, eff. 3−1−95; am. (1) (intro.), (a) (intro.), 5. and 6., (b) 1. x. xx j., (2) (f), r. (1) (a) 6. Table 1, cr. (1) (b) 1. m. to p., am. r. and recr. (4), Register, July, 1996, No. 487, eff. 8−1−96. (1) START OF NOTIFICATION PROCESS. Within 6 months following department plan approval, the process of notification to landown- ers shall begin. The first to begin the process shall be those high- est−ranked critical sites based on estimated pollutant contribu- tion, which together would provide at least 25% of the pollutant reduction goal for inventoried sites available at the time the final plan is written, if best management practices were applied at those sites. Notification shall proceed in accordance with the schedule identified in the plan and modified, if necessary, in the annual workplan. The department may grant up to 3 90−day extensions of this 6 month period to allow verification.