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BMP: Best Management Practice
EPA: United States Environmental Protection Agency
ESC: Erosion and Sediment Control
FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency
GIS: Geographic Information System
IECA: International Erosion Control Association
LID: Low Impact Development
MARC: Mid-America Regional Council
MS4: Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System
NPDES: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, the two-phased surface water quality program authorized by Congress as part of the 1987 Clean Water Act.
SMAC: Stormwater Management Advisory Council
SWMP: Stormwater management plan (or program)
SWPPP: A plan to describe a process though which a facility thoroughly evaluates potential pollutant sources at a site and selects and implements appropriate measures designed to prevent or control the discharge of pollutants in stormwater runoff.
TMDL: Total Maximum Daily Load. The maximum allowable loading of a pollutant that a designated water body can assimilate and still meet numeric and narrative water quality standards.
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