Utah Admin. Code R850-1-200 - Definitions
1. Animal unit
(AU): is equal to one cow and calf or their equivalent.
2. Assignment: the transfer or sale of a
lease, permit, contract, certificate, easement, or any other interest or
privilege in trust land or its resources by the holder of such interest,
including lessees, permittees, and grantees. The transfer of any interest in a
grazing association, either between shareholders or with an outside party, is
deemed to be an assignment.
3.
Beneficiary as to school and institutional trust lands: the public school
system and other institutions granted properties by the United States under the
Enabling Act to the state of Utah in trust.
4. Board: School and Institutional Trust
Lands Board of Trustees.
5. Board
policy: actions taken by the School and Institutional Trust Lands Board of
Trustees which comply with the definition of Policies found in Section
53C-1-103(5).
6. Carrying capacity: the maximum
stocking rate possible which is consistent with maintaining or improving
vegetation or related resources.
7. Commercial gain: compensation, in money,
in services, or other valuable consideration rendered for products provided.
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 School and
Institutional Trust Lands Administration.
11. Agency: School and Institutional Trust
Lands Administration.
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 agency to
a qualified applicant including but not limited to transmission lines, canals
and ditches, pipelines, tunnels, fences, roads and trails.
13. General Management Plans: plans prepared
for school and institutional trust lands which guide the implementation of the
school and institutional trust land management objectives.
14. High Value Grazing Lands: Trust lands
used for grazing which are not located within the boundaries of a federal
allotment and which are not managed by a federal agency, or trust lands which
are located such that they can be managed independent of the influence of a
federal agency, or trust lands for which management agreements with a federal
agency are in place, or any other trust lands which the director has designated
as High Value Grazing Land.
15.
In-kind use: occupancy or use by a beneficiary of its institutional trust land
for authorized purposes as a direct economic benefit to the institution.
16. Management Plans: General
Management Plans, Resource Plans and Site-Specific Plans.
17. Multiple-use: the management of various
surface and sub-surface resources so that they are utilized in the combination
that will best meet the present and future needs of the beneficiaries.
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. Planning Unit: the geographical basis of
a general 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. Private Exchange: An exchange of trust
lands, for land or other assets of equal or greater value, with a political
subdivision of the state or agency of the federal government. Lands involved in
a private exchange are not required to be advertised as open for competing
exchange, lease, and sale applications.
25. Range condition: the relation between
current and potential condition of the range site.
26. Record of Decision: a written finding
describing an agency action, relevant facts, and the basis upon which the
decision for action was made.
27.
Resource Plans: a plan prepared for a specific resource, such as mining,
timber, grazing or real estate.
28. Rights-of-Entry: a right to a specific,
non-depleting land use granted by the agency 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
trust lands, and other temporary types of land uses.
29. School and institutional trust lands:
those properties granted by the United States in the Utah Enabling Act to the
state of Utah in trust, or other properties transferred to the trust, to be
managed for the benefit of the public school system and the various
institutions of the state in whose behalf the lands were granted.
30. Significant site: any site which is
designated by the Division of State History as scientifically worthy of
specific management.
31. 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.
32. Site Specific Plans: plans
prepared for trust lands which provide direction for specific actions.
Site-specific plans shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) Records of Decision in either narrative
or summary form.
(b) Board action
that designates specific parcels of land for specific uses(s) or disposition.
33. Specimen: includes
all man-made relics, artifacts, remains of a prehistorical, archaeological, or
anthropological nature found on or below the surface of the earth, and any
remains of prehistoric life.
34.
Sublease: a situation where a permittee or lessee has granted or allowed the
use of part or all of the permitted or leased premises to another person, but
with the original permittee or lessee retaining some right or interest under
the original permit or lease.
35.
Trust lands: school and institutional trust lands and all other lands
administered under the authority of the School and Institutional Trust Lands
Board of Trustees.
36. Survey
Report: report of the various site files and field surveys or inspections.
37. Sustained-yield: the
achievement and maintenance of maximum non-depleting level of annual or
periodic production of the various renewable resources of land without
impairment of the productivity of the land.
38. Trust land use(s): any use of school and
institutional trust lands based on multiple-use, sustained-yield principles or
practices designed to maximize support of the beneficiaries.
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