This section applies to all development, or re-development of land, that results in land disturbance of one acre or more. Individual lots with land disturbance less than one acre shall refer to §§ 52.060 through 52.063, §§ 52.075 through 52.079 and § 52.093 for plan review requirements and procedures. Figure 1 is a flowchart summarizing the plan review/permit approval/project termination compliance process for land disturbance of one acre or more and can be found at the end of this section.
(A) General procedures.
(1) The project site owner shall submit an application for a stormwater management permit to the City of Greensburg. The application will include a completed application checklist, construction plan sheets, a stormwater drainage technical report, a stormwater pollution prevention plan, and any other necessary support information. Specific information to be included in the application can be found in § 52.092. The application and the supporting documentation shall be submitted in digital form to the City of Greensburg. The City of Greensburg may, at its discretion, require additional copies be submitted to other entities deemed appropriate by the City of Greensburg.
(2) After the City of Greensburg's receipt of the application, the applicant will be notified as to whether their application was complete or insufficient. The applicant will be asked for additional information if the application is insufficient. If the application is complete, it will be reviewed in detail by the City of Greensburg and/or its plan review consultant(s). Once all comments have been received and review completed, the City of Greensburg will either approve the project, request modifications or deny the project. If the applicant does not agree with or accept the review findings and wishes to seek an appeal, the City of Greensburg will place the project on the agenda of the next regularly scheduled meeting of the City of Greensburg Board of Works, provided the agenda for the meeting has not yet been advertised or published. If time for notification does not allow, the project shall be placed on the following regularly scheduled meeting of the City of Greensburg Board of Works. If the project must go through a scheduled meeting, the City of Greensburg will furnish the applicant a complete list of comments and objections to the plans and accompanying data prior to the scheduled meeting. After the scheduled meeting, the City of Greensburg will either issue a permit, request modifications to the construction plans or deny the project.
(3) The project site owner shall notify the City of Greensburg and IDEM before beginning construction. Notification to the City of Greensburg shall be in the form of an email while the notification to IDEM shall be in the form of an online IDEM NOI submittal. Once a permit has been issued and the pending construction notifications submitted to the City of Greensburg and IDEM before the beginning of construction, construction may commence. Once construction starts, the project owner shall monitor construction activities and inspect all stormwater pollution prevention measures in compliance with this chapter and the terms and conditions of the approved permit. Upon completion of construction activities, a Certification of Completion and Compliance and as-built plans shall be submitted to the City of Greensburg. Once the construction site has been stabilized and all temporary erosion and sediment control measures have been removed, a notification shall be sent to the City of Greensburg, requesting a termination inspection. The City of Greensburg, or its representative, shall inspect the construction site to verify that the completed project is fully stabilized and meets the requirements of City of Greensburg's stormwater chapter and its technical standards and that the terms and conditions of the permit. Once the applicant receives a signed copy of the Termination Inspection Checklist confirming compliance, they shall forward a copy to IDEM along with the required IDEM NOT form. Permits issued by the City of Greensburg under this scenario will expire five years from the date of issuance. If construction is not completed within five years, an updated permit application shall be submitted to the City of Greensburg and an updated NOI shall be resubmitted to IDEM at least 90 days prior to expiration.
(B) SWPPP review time limits.
(1) Pursuant to IC 13-18-27, an MS4-designated entity or other review authority such as SWCD shall make a preliminary determination as to whether the construction plan associated with SWPPP is substantially complete before the end of the tenth working day (for sites with less than five acres of land disturbance) after the day on which the SWPPP is submitted to the review authority or the fourteenth working day (for sites with five acres or larger of land disturbance) after the day on which the SWPPP is submitted to the review authority.
(2) Note that the above time limits only apply to the SWPPP portion of the overall stormwater permit submittal and do not affect any official or non-official permit review timelines set by the entity for other aspects of the stormwater permit application.
Figure 1: Permit Approval and Project Termination Sign-Off Process
(Ord. 2023-15 passed 9-12-23)