(415 ILCS 56/5)
Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
"Green infrastructure" means any storm water management technique or practice employed with the primary goal of preserving, restoring, or mimicking natural hydrology. Green infrastructure includes, but is not limited to, methods of using soil and vegetation to promote soil percolation, evapotranspiration, and filtration. Green infrastructure includes the preservation and restoration of natural landscape features, such as forests, floodplains, headwaters, and wetlands. Green infrastructure also includes rain gardens, permeable pavements, green roofs, infiltration planters, trees and tree boxes, and rainwater harvesting for non-potable uses, such as toilet flushing and landscape irrigation.
(Source: P.A. 96-26, eff. 6-30-09.)
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