California Code of Regulations › Title 2 - Administration › Division 3 - State Property Operations › Chapter 1 - State Lands Commission › Article 2.9.1 - Permits for Geophysical Surveys › Section 2100.03 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
As used in these regulations:
(a) "Autonomous vehicle" means an uncrewed
				  vehicle that operates independently of, and without tethers or connecting
				  cables to, a crewed vessel.
(b)
				  "Biological survey" means a scientific study of organisms to assess the
				  condition of an ecological resource.
(c) "Commission" means the California State
				  Lands Commission.
(d) "Geophysical
				  survey" or "survey" means the systematic collection of geophysical data for
				  spatial analysis, within a pre-determined area of study, by reflecting sound or
				  pressure waves off the floor underlying marine waters and non-marine waters,
				  and analyzing such data to develop an approximation of the physical features of
				  the surface or subsurface floor underlying marine waters and non-marine
				  waters.
(e) "Haul-Out Site" means
				  land habitat that is used by pinnipeds for periods of rest, molting, and as
				  rookeries for mating and pupping.
(f) "High-energy equipment" means geophysical
				  equipment that produces acoustic energy and is an air or water compression
				  device (e.g., airgun, water gun).
(g) "Low-energy equipment" means geophysical
				  equipment that produces acoustic energy and falls into one of the following
				  categories: subbottom profilers (e.g., mini-sparkers, boomers, chirp, and
				  general subbottom profiler systems), echosounders (e.g., single beam and
				  multibeam echosounders), and side-scan sonars.
(h) "Marine waters" means those waters
				  subject to tidal influence, except for waters in the Sacramento-San Joaquin
				  Rivers and Delta upstream from a line running north and south through the point
				  where Contra Costa, Sacramento, and Solano Counties meet.
(i) "Marine Wildlife Monitor" or "MWM" means
				  a person responsible for monitoring for marine wildlife, including marine
				  mammals and turtles, and ensuring geophysical survey activities are conducted
				  in compliance with the Commission's Geophysical Survey Permit Program for
				  minimizing the risk of injury and disturbance to marine wildlife.
(j) "Passive equipment" means equipment that
				  does not produce acoustic or pressure wave energy, including but not limited to
				  magnetometers, gravity meters, fluorometers, and optical sensors.
(k) "Pre-Survey Notification Form" means the
				  Pre-Survey Notification Form dated September 5, 2018, incorporated herein in
				  its entirety.
(l) "Sovereign lands"
				  means the lands held in trust for the benefit of the people of California
				  subject to the common law Public Trust Doctrine including granted and ungranted
				  tidelands and submerged lands and the beds of navigable waterways.
1. New
					 section filed 11-13-2019; operative 1-1-2020 (Register 2019, No.
					 46).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						6108
						and
						6212.3,
						Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections
						6212.3
						and
						6826,
						Public Resources Code.