2. This bill amends the laws governing storm water management in the following ways.

A. It changes the permitting threshold in the storm water management laws to one acre or more of disturbed area.

B. It removes language providing that storm water quality standards only apply in the direct watersheds of water bodies most at risk from development and in sensitive or threatened geographic regions or watersheds.

C. It repeals an exemption for construction projects at industrial facilities for which a federal storm water permit application has been made or construction projects at facilities for which storm water is regulated under an existing federal discharge permit.

D. It changes the fee provisions in the storm water management laws.

E. It authorizes the department to require a person owning or operating a significant existing source of storm water to implement a storm water management system.

F. It provides transition provisions.