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• • • execute a maintenance agreement, that prohibits plowed snow storage in a location from which runoff will be conveyed without adequate pretreatment (minimum of 25 feet of overland drainage on grassland or other rough vegetated surface to trap flow) or sheet flow directly into a wetland within the RMP area. This requirement does not apply to snow removed from public roadways. 7. VEGETATED WETLAND BUFFER AND UPLAND HABITAT AREA. (a) As a condition of permit issuance under this Rule, a property owner must record a declaration in a form approved by the District establishing vegetated buffer area adjacent to the delineated edge of wetland within the final Wetland Preservation Corridor and other wetland buffer and upland habitat approved as part of a permit under this Rule. The declaration must state that on further subdivision of the property, each subdivided lot of record shall meet the monumentation requirement of paragraph 7(b). On public land or right -of -way, in place of a recorded declaration, the public owner may execute a written maintenance agreement with the District. The agreement will state that if the land containing the buffer or upland habitat area is conveyed to a private party, the seller must record a declaration for maintenance in a form approved by the District. 7(d) The buffer or upland habitat area will consist of vegetated land, primarily plant species native to this region, that is not cultivated; cropped; pastured; mowed; fertilized; used as a site for depositing snow removed from roads, driveways or parking lots; subject to the placement of mulch or yard waste; or otherwise disturbed, except for periodic cutting or burning that promotes the health of the buffer or upland habitat area, actions to address disease or invasive species, or other actions to maintain or improve buffer or habitat area quality, each as approved in writing by District staff. The application must include a vegetation management plan for District approval. For public road authorities and stormwater system maintenance, the terms of this subsection will be modified as necessary to accommodate safety and maintenance feasibility needs. 11. EASEMENT. As a condition of permit issuance, the property owner must convey to the District and record, in a form acceptable to the District, a perpetual, assignable easement granting the District the authority to monitor, modify and maintain hydrologic and vegetative conditions within WPC wetland and upland buffer or habitat area adjacent to WPC wetland, including the authority to install and maintain structures within those areas and reasonable access to those areas to perform authorized activity. The WPC shall be identified and delineated as part of the recorded easement.