Code of Maine Rules › 01 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY › 669 - BUREAU OF FORESTRY (MAINE FOREST SERVICE) › Chapter 27 - STANDARDS FOR TIMBER HARVESTING ACTIVITIES WITHIN UNORGANIZED AND DEORGANIZED AREAS OF THE STATE › Section 669-27-2 - Definitions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
For the purposes of 12 M.R.S., Chapter 805, sub-chapter 3-A,
				  and for these rules, the following terms have the following meanings unless the
				  context otherwise requires. Unless otherwise provided herein, this rule
				  incorporates by reference the definitions contained in MFS Rule Chapter 20
				  (Forest Regeneration and Clearcutting Standards).
A.
Agricultural Management
				Activities
mean land clearing if the land topography is not altered,
				tilling, fertilizing, including spreading and disposal of manure, liming,
				planting, pesticide application, harvesting or cultivating crops, pasturing of
				livestock, minor drainage and maintenance of drainage, and other similar or
				related activities, but not the construction, creation or maintenance of land
				management roads, nor the land application of septage, sludge and other
				residuals and related storage and composting activities.
B.
Areas of Special Flood Hazard
means lands in the floodplain having a one percent or greater chance of
				flooding in any given year, as specifically identified in a Flood Insurance
				Study, where available, and/or as determined on the Flood Insurance Rate Map
				(FIRM), Flood Hazard Boundary Map (FHBM), or the Commission's Land Use Guidance
				Map.
C.
Base Flood
means a flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any
				given year, commonly called the 100-year flood.
D.
Bureau
means the Maine Bureau
				of Forestry, Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, otherwise
				known as the Maine Forest Service.
E.
Commission
means the Maine
				Land Use Planning Commission.
F.
Critically Imperiled Natural Community (S1)
means an assemblage of
				plants, animals and their common environment that is extremely rare in
				Maine(five or fewer occurrences or very few remaining acres) or vulnerable to
				extirpation from the state due to some aspect of its biology. An example of an
				S1 community that occurs in freshwater wetlands is the Outwash Plain Pondshore
				community.
G.
Cross-sectional
				area of a stream channel
is determined by multiplying the stream channel
				width by the average stream channel depth. The stream channel width is the
				straight line distance from the normal high water line on one side of the
				channel to the normal high water line on the opposite side of the channel. The
				average stream channel depth is the average of the vertical distances from a
				straight line between the normal high water lines of the stream channel to the
				bottom of the channel.
H.
Development
means any land use activity or activities directed
				toward using, reusing or rehabilitating air space, land, water or other natural
				resources, excluding, however, such specific uses or classes and categories of
				uses which by the terms of this chapter do not require a permit.
I.
Flood or Flooding
means:
1. A general and temporary condition of
				partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from:
a. The overflow of inland or tidal
				waters.
b. The unusual and rapid
				accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.