The provisions of this article are hereby declared to be severable.
If any provision, clause, sentence, or paragraph of this article or
the application thereof to any person, establishment, or circumstances
shall be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the other
provisions, clauses, sentences, or paragraphs or application of this
article.
The City of Biddeford enacts this Post-Construction Stormwater
Management Control Ordinance (the article) pursuant to 30-A M.R.S.A.
§ 3001 (municipal home rule ordinance authority), 38 M.R.S.A.
§ 413 (the Wastewater Discharge Law), 33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq. (the Clean Water Act), and 40 CFR Part 122 [U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's regulations governing the National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES)]. The Maine Department of Environmental
Protection, through its promulgation of the General Permit for the
Discharge of Stormwater from Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer
Systems, has listed the City of Biddeford as having a regulated small
municipal separate storm sewer system (Small MS4); under this General
Permit, listing as a regulated small MS4 necessitates enactment of
this article as part of the City's Stormwater Management Program in
order to satisfy the minimum control measures required by Part IV
D 5 (Post-construction stormwater management in new development and
redevelopment).
