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(r) Upland Habitat Area - a nonwetland area that is contiguous with an <br />existing, restored, or created wetland and scores "C" or better using the <br />Natural Heritage Ranking methodology. <br />(s) Water Quantity Best Management Practice - the use of on -site runoff <br />management practices such as biofiltration, infiltration, <br />buffers /conservation areas, impervious disconnection, greenway <br />connections in a WPC. to satisfy stormwater management or wetland <br />replacement requirements. <br />(t) Wetland Impact -A Toss in the quantity, quality, or biological diversity <br />of a wetland caused by (a) draining, partially draining, filling, excavating, <br />or diverting water from a wetland; or (b) hydrologic regime change of a <br />wetland, by inundation or other means, without maintaining or improving <br />wetland functions. <br />(u) Wetland Preservation Corridor (WPC)- Incorporation of high - priority <br />wetland resources identified at a landscape scale in the RMP and <br />delineated at the time of individual project permitting as: <br />(i) Wetland community that is physically contiguous with (not <br />separated by upland from) the landscape scale WPC alignment <br />shown in Figure 1 and /or that ranks high for vegetative integrity <br />using MnRAM 3.0 or most recent state approved methodology or <br />(ii) Wetland community meeting the vegetative integrity criterion of <br />paragraph (i) and any part of which is within 50 feet of the <br />community identified under paragraph (i); <br />with inclusions of habitat and stormwater management features <br />consistent with the strategies identified for each Resource Management <br />Unit. <br />RCWD Proposed Rule RMP -3 6 <br />October 8, 2008 <br />• <br />• <br />• <br />