16 USC 460nnn - Definitions

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 26, 2024

§ 460nnn.

Definitions

In this subchapter:

(1)

Advisory council

(2)

Cooperative management agreement

(3)

Cooperative Management and Protection Area

(4)

Easements

(A)

Conservation easement

(B)

Nondevelopment easement

The term “nondevelopment easement” means a binding contractual agreement between the Secretary and a landowner in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area that will, permanently or during a time period specified in the agreement—

(i)

prevent or restrict development on the land covered by the easement; or

(ii)

protect open space or viewshed.

(5)

Ecological integrity

The term “ecological integrity” means a landscape where ecological processes are functioning to maintain the structure, composition, activity, and resilience of the landscape over time, including—

(A)

a complex of plant communities, habitats and conditions representative of variable and sustainable successional conditions; and

(B)

the maintenance of biological diversity, soil fertility, and genetic interchange.

(6)

Management plan

(7)

Redband Trout Reserve

(8)

Secretary

(9)

Science committee

(10)

Wilderness Area

(Pub. L. 106–399, § 2, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1656.)

cite as: 16 USC 460nnn