Utah Code Title 19. Environmental Quality Code § 19-5-108.5. Storm water permits

(a) “Applicant” means a person who is conducting or proposing to conduct a use of land and who a permittee requires or allows to use low impact development.

(b) “Independent review” is a review conducted:

(c) “Low impact development” means structural or natural engineered systems located close to the source of storm water that use or mimic natural processes to encourage infiltration, evapotranspiration, or reuse of the storm water.

(d) “Permittee” means a municipality, metro township, or county with a storm water permit under the Utah Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.

(e) “Storm water” means storm water runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage.

(f) “Storm water permit” means a permit issued to a permittee by the division for the permittee's municipal separate storm sewer system.

(g) “Utah Pollutant Discharge Elimination System” means the state-wide program for issuing, modifying, revoking and reissuing, terminating, monitoring and enforcing permits under this chapter.

(4)(a) An applicant who appeals a permittee's determination regarding post-construction retention requirements under the permittee's storm water permit may request the permittee to refer the appeal to independent review for purposes of determining the technical aspects of the appeal, including:

(b) If an applicant makes a request under Subsection (4)(a):