Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 11 - STATE CONSERVATION COMMISSION › Article 13 - KANSAS SEDIMENT AND NUTRIENT REDUCTION INITIATIVE › Section 11-13-1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
Each of the following terms, as used in this article of the
				division of conservation's regulations, shall have the meaning specified in
				this regulation:
(a) "Bottomland
			 timber establishment" means the trees planted in floodplains adjacent to
			 perennial streams to provide wildlife habitat and other benefits.
(b) "CRP" means the conservation reserve
			 program administered by the USDA farm service agency.
(c) "Director" means the executive director
			 of the division of conservation, Kansas department of agriculture or the
			 executive director's designee.
(d)
			 "Farmable wetland or farmable wetland buffer" means land eligible for
			 restoration by improving the land's hydrology and vegetation.
(e) "Filter strip" means a strip or area of
			 grass for removing sediment, organic mater, and other pollutants from runoff
			 and wastewater and for providing food and cover for wildlife.
(f) "FSA" means the farm service agency in
			 the USDA.
(g) "Grassed waterway"
			 means a designated strip of grass that is designed to convey runoff and gully
			 erosion for the purpose of improving water quality and providing wildlife
			 habitat.
(h) "Habitat buffers for
			 upland birds" means a narrow band of native grasses, legumes, forbs, or shrubs,
			 or any combination of these, to provide habitat for bobwhite quail, ring-necked
			 pheasant, and other upland birds and to limit the amount of nutrients,
			 sediment, pesticides, and other contaminants entering water bodies.
(i) "HUC 12 watershed" means a hydrological
			 unit code consisting of a sequence of 12 numbers identifying a hydrological
			 feature like a river, river reach, or lake or an area like a drainage
			 basin.
(j) "Initiative" means the
			 Kansas water quality buffer initiative and the application requirements for the
			 program specified in this article of the division of conservation's
			 regulations. This term is also known as the Kansas sediment and nutrient
			 reduction initiative.
(k) "NRCS"
			 means natural resources conservation service.
(l) "Practices" means the use of cultural
			 techniques or structures installed or constructed on land for the purpose of
			 improving or maintaining water quality.
(m) "Program-eligible area" means the Big
			 Creek, Delaware, Little Arkansas, Lower Big Blue, Lower Kansas, Lower Little
			 Blue, Lower Republican, Lower Smoky Hill, Neosho Headwaters, Upper Cottonwood,
			 and Lower Cottonwood watersheds.
(n) "Program-eligible boundaries" means the
			 boundaries based on HUC 12 watersheds that are above Tuttle Creek, Milford,
			 Perry, John Redmond, and Clinton reservoirs and are identified as target areas
			 for nutrient and sediment reduction in watershed restoration and protection
			 strategy plans. The program-eligible boundaries shall contain two tiers for
			 priority enrollment, which are called tier 1 areas and tier 2 areas.
(o) "Shallow water areas for wildlife" means
			 wet areas that have been developed or restored and include 6-18 inches of water
			 depth for wildlife.
(p) "Tier 1
			 areas" means those HUC 12 watersheds identified in watershed restoration and
			 protection strategy plans as the highest priority target areas for nutrient and
			 sediment reduction within program-eligible boundaries.
(q) "Tier 2 areas" means all areas within the
			 program-eligible boundaries that are not tier 1 areas.
(r) "Unfarmable field" means the remaining
			 portion of a field in which 51 percent or more of the total acreage has been
			 enrolled in CRP.
(s) "USDA" means
			 United States department of agriculture.
(t) "Wetland restoration" means the
			 restoration of constructed wetlands for the purpose of intercepting tile
			 runoff, reducing nutrient loss, improving water quality, and enhancing
			 agricultural production practices.
(u) "WRAPS" means watershed restoration and
			 protection strategy, which consists of a planning and management framework
			 intended to engage stakeholders in a process to identify watershed restoration.
			 The process documents stakeholder goals, strategies to achieve the goals, and
			 the resources required to implement the strategies.