Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part I - Department of Environmental Protection › Subpart C - Protection of Natural Resources › Article I - Land Resources › Chapter 83 - STATE CONSERVATION COMMISSION › Subchapter B - CONSERVATION DISTRICT FUND ALLOCATION PROGRAM-STATEMENT OF POLICY › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 83.32 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
							 subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
							 otherwise:
Act
-The Conservation District Law
							 (3 P.
							 S. §§
														849-864).
Agricultural Area Security Law (3 P. S.
							 §§
															901-915)
-This act
							 creates a State agricultural conservation easement purchase program for the
							 purchase of conservation easements on eligible farms administered by the PDA
							 and local county farmland preservation boards assisted by county conservation
							 districts.
Agricultural Conservation Technical
							 Assistance Program
-A cost share program to support the employment and
							 training of agricultural conservation technicians and engineers serving as a
							 resource and technical advisor providing increased levels of direct technical
							 services and assistance to production agriculture cooperators and other
							 landowners. Technical assistance and services may include assessing natural
							 resource problems and developing, updating or implementing conservation plans
							 and other natural resource plans such as nutrient management, integrated pest
							 management and pasture, crop and forest management plans for delegated or other
							 technical assistance activities of a program assumed by the conservation
							 district. Training opportunities include, but are not limited to, the
							 Agricultural Technical Boot Camp Training Program.
Associate director
-A person
							 appointed by the conservation district board consistent with section 6(2) of
							 the act (3 P. S. §
														854(2)).
Commission
-The State Conservation
							 Commission created by the act.
Conservation district manager
-A
							 person employed by the district to perform those duties determined by the
							 district, if those duties comply with this subchapter.
Conservation district management
							 staff
-A person employed by the district other than the conservation
							 district manager to perform those duties determined by the district as
							 providing overall administration of district programs that comply with this
							 subchapter.
Conservation district technician and
							 engineer
-A person employed by the district to perform those technical
							 or educational duties determined by the district or the Commission that are of
							 a specialized nature and require a specific educational background or
							 specialized training.
Cooperating organization
-An
							 organization approved by the Commission to assist in carrying out the
							 act.
Department
-The Department of
							 Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth.
Directors
-The district's board of
							 directors as defined in the act.
District
-A conservation district as
							 defined in the act.
Erosion and Sediment Control
							 Program
-A State program to help provide for the conservation of soil,
							 water and related resources and for the control and prevention of soil erosion
							 and preservation of natural resources established under the erosion control
							 rules and regulations in Chapter 102 (relating to erosion and sediment control)
							 adopted under the authority of The Clean Streams Law (35 P. S.
							 §§
														691.1-691.1001).
Fiscal year
-The State fiscal year
							 being July 1 through June 30.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
							 System Permitting Program
-A Federal discharge permitting program
							 established under section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act
							 (33 U.S.C.A. §
														1342).
PDA-Pennsylvania Department of
							 Agriculture
-The Department of Agriculture of the Commonwealth.
Special project
-A specific program
							 or planned undertaking approved by the Commission.
The provisions of this §
															83.32 amended under the
								Conservation District Law (3 P. S. §§
																849-864); and section 1920-A of The
								Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. §
																510-20).