Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 35 - Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry › Chapter 20 - Forestry › Subchapter 17 - Forest Resources Development Program › Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 35:20-17-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words or terms used in this subchapter shall
					 have the meaning described below unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
"Advisory Committee"
means the group
					 established by the Commissioner of Agriculture to assist with the program, and
					 is equivalent to the State's Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committee,
					 established pursuant to section
					 16 USC
					 2113 of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance
					 Act as amended (
					 16 U.S.C.
					 2101, et seq).
"Applicant"
means the person who applies for
					 cost-share assistance under the program.
"Area Forester"
means the forester in charge
					 of a designated Forestry Services Administrative Area who provides basic
					 oversight of the cost-share program in their assigned area.
"Cost-share"
means the payment that is used to
					 offset part of the cost incurred by an approved applicant for implementation of
					 an approved practice authorized under the program.
"Forester"
means the professional natural
					 resources manager who provides information and technical assistance to program
					 participants.
"Fund"
means the forestry cost-share revolving
					 fund, authorized at Title 2 O.S. Section
					 16-11.
"Landowner"
means the owner of non-industrial
					 private forestland or a leaseholder who controls the land for the minimum
					 length of time for a practice to be established, but shall not mean
					 corporations whose stocks are publicly traded, owners principally engaged in
					 the processing or manufacture of wood products, governmental entities and
					 public utilities.
"Management plan"
means the written plan
					 prepared by a natural resources management professional and approved by the
					 Department that describes projects and activities to be carried out by the
					 landowner, consistent with the landowner's objectives.
"Non-industrial private forestland"
means
					 rural lands with existing tree cover, or which are suitable for growing trees,
					 and are owned by any non-industrial private individual, group, association,
					 corporation, Indian tribe, or other private legal entity so long as the
					 individual, group, association, corporation, tribe, or entity has definitive
					 decision-making authority over the lands.
"Practice"
means a prescribed forestry
					 activity consistent with the management plan and implemented through the
					 program that results in improved conditions on eligible private lands. A
					 practice may consist of multiple activities.
"Practice plan"
means the written document
					 that contains site-specific technical recommendations on proper installation of
					 requested practices.
"Project"
means the purpose for which an
					 applicant requests funding assistance under this program.
Added at 20 Ok Reg
					 587, eff 1-31-03 (emergency); Added at 20 Ok Reg 1533, eff 6-12-03; Amended at
					 27 Ok Reg 1113, eff 7-1-10