Utah Admin. Code R652-1-200 - Definitions
1. Animal unit (AU): is equal to one cow and
calf or their equivalent.
2.
Beneficiaries: the citizens of the state of Utah.
3. Beds of navigable lakes and streams: the
lands lying under or below the "ordinary high water mark" of a navigable lake
or stream.
4. Carrying capacity:
the acreage required to adequately provide forage for an animal unit (AU) for a
specified period without inducing range deterioration.
5. Commercial gain: compensation, in money,
in services, or other valuable consideration rendered or products provided.
6. Comprehensive Management Plans:
plans prepared for sovereign lands that guide the implementation of sovereign
land management objectives.
7.
Cooperative Agreement: an agreement between the Division and an eligible entity
wherein the eligible entity agrees to meet a Participation Commitment and
provide Initial Attack for wildland fire, and FFSL agrees to pay for wildland
fire suppression costs following a Delegation of Fire Management Authority as
found in Utah Code Section
65A-8-203.1, as well as all
aviation asset costs charged to the incident.
8. Cultural Resources: prehistoric and
historic materials, features, artifacts.
9. Cultural Resource Survey:
(a) Class I: literature and site files
search.
(b) Class II: sample field
surface survey or inspection.
(c)
Class III: intensive field surface survey.
10. Director: the director of the Division of
Forestry, Fire and State Lands
11.
Division: Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands
12. Easements: a right to use or restrict use
of land or a portion of a real property interest in the land for a particular
purpose granted by the division to a qualified applicant including but not
limited to transmission lines, canals and ditches, pipelines, tunnels, fences,
roads and trails.
13. Eligible
entity: a county, a municipality, or a special service district, local district
or service area with:
(a) wildland fire
suppression responsibility as described in Section
11-7-1; and
(b) wildland fire suppression cost
responsibility and taxing authority for a specific geographic jurisdiction; or
(c) upon approval by the director,
a political subdivision established by a county, municipality, special service
district, local district, or service area that is responsible for:
(i) providing wildland fire suppression
services; and
(ii) paying for the
cost of wildland suppression services.
14. Initial attack: actions taken by the
first resources to arrive at a wildland fire incident, including size-up,
patrolling, monitoring, holding action, or aggressive suppression action.
15. Management Plans:
Comprehensive Management Plans, Resource Plans and Site-Specific Plans.
16. Municipality: a city, town, or
metro township.
17. Ordinary high
water mark: the high water elevation in a lake or stream at the time of
statehood, uninfluenced by man-made dams or works, at which elevation the water
impresses a line on the soil by covering it for sufficient periods to deprive
the soil of its vegetation and destroy its value for agricultural purposes or
other tests as may be applied by the courts. This "ordinary high water mark"
may not have been adjudicated in the courts.
18. Paleontological Resources (fossils): the
remains or traces of organisms, plant or animal, that have been preserved by
various means in the earth's crust.
19. Paleontological Resource Survey: an
evaluation of the scientific literature or previous paleontological survey
reports to assess the potential for discovery or impact to fossils by a
proposed development, followed by a pedestrian examination of the exposed
geological formations suspected of containing fossils of significance.
20. Paleontological Site: an
exposure of a geologic formation having fossil evidence of scientific value as
determined by professional consensus.
21. Participation Commitment: prevention,
preparedness, and mitigation actions and expenditures approved by the Division
undertaken by a participating entity to reduce the risk of wildland fire.
22. Participating Entity: an
eligible entity with a cooperative agreement.
23. Planning Unit: the geographical basis of
a general or comprehensive management plan; a consolidated block of state land,
or a group of isolated state land sections or parts thereof, or a combination
of blocks and isolated sections which provide common management opportunities
or which have common commercial gain, natural or cultural resource concerns.
24. Preliminary Development Plan:
the submittal, both of maps and written material, which shall identify and
determine the extent and scope on a proposed unit development of the entire
acreage under application. It shall illustrate, in phases, the development of
the entire acreage and include a time table of the estimated schedule of
development. The preliminary development plan shall identify density, open
space, environmental reserves, site features, services and utilities, land
ownerships, local master planning, zoning compliance and basic engineering
feasibility.
25. Preliminary
Development Plat: a plat which shall outline and specify the number of dwelling
units, the type of dwelling units, the anticipated location of the
transportation systems and description of water and sewage systems for the
developed area on a Unit Development Lease.
26. State lands: all lands administered by
the division.
27. Range condition:
the relation between current and potential condition of the range site.
28. Record of Decision: a written
finding describing a division action, relevant facts, and the basis upon which
the decision for action was made.
29. Resource Plans: a plan prepared for a
specific resource, such as mining, timber, grazing or real estate.
30. Rights-of-Entry: a right to a specific,
non-depleting land use granted by the division to a qualified applicant that is
temporary in nature, generally not to exceed one year in duration, including
but not limited to seismic and land surveys, research sites, access across
sovereign lands, and other temporary types of land uses.
31. Significant site: any site which is
designated by the Division of State History as scientifically worthy of
specific management.
32. Site:
archaeological and cultural sites are places of prehistoric and historic human
activity including aboriginal mounds, forts, buildings, earth works, village
locations, burial grounds, ruins, caves, petroglyphs, pictographs, or other
locations which are the source of prehistoric cultural features and specimens.
33. Site Specific Plans: plans
prepared for sovereign lands which provide direction for specific actions.
Site-specific plans shall include Records of Decision in either narrative or
summary form.
34. Sovereign lands:
those lands lying below the ordinary high water mark of navigable bodies of
water at the date of statehood and owned by the state by virtue of its
sovereignty or land received in exchange for sovereign lands.
35. Survey Report: report of the various site
files and field surveys or inspections.
36. Wildland: an area where:
(a) development is essentially non-existent,
except for roads, railroads, power line or similar transportation facilities;
and
(b) structures, if any, are
widely scattered.
37.
Wildland fire: a fire that consumes:
(a)
wildland; or
(b) Wildland-urban
interface, as defined in Section
65A-8a-102.
Notes
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