[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC3951]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 59A--WETLANDS
Sec. 3951. Definitions
As used in this chapter, the term--
(1) ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Army;
(2) ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency;
(3) ``development activities'' means any activity, including the
discharge of dredged or fill material, which results directly in a
more than de minimus change in the hydrologic regime, bottom
contour, or the type, distribution or diversity of hydrophytic
vegetation, or which impairs the flow, reach, or circulation of
surface water within wetlands or other waters;
(4) ``State'' means the State of Louisiana;
(5) ``coastal State'' means a State of the United States in, or
bordering on, the Atlantic, Pacific, or Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of
Mexico, Long Island Sound, or one or more of the Great Lakes; for
the purposes of this chapter, the term also includes Puerto Rico,
the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, and the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands, and
American Samoa;
(6) ``coastal wetlands restoration project'' means any
technically feasible activity to create, restore, protect, or
enhance coastal wetlands through sediment and freshwater diversion,
water management, or other measures that the Task Force finds will
significantly contribute to the long-term restoration or protection
of the physical, chemical and biological integrity of coastal
wetlands in the State of Louisiana, and includes any such activity
authorized under this chapter or under any other provision of law,
including, but not limited to, new projects, completion or expansion
of existing or on-going projects, individual phases, portions, or
components of projects and operation, maintanence \1\ and
rehabilitation of completed projects; the primary purpose of a
``coastal wetlands restoration project'' shall not be to provide
navigation, irrigation or flood control benefits;
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\1\ So in original. Probably should be ``maintenance''.
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(7) ``coastal wetlands conservation project'' means--
(A) the obtaining of a real property interest in coastal
lands or waters, if the obtaining of such interest is subject to
terms and conditions that will ensure that the real property
will be administered for the long-term conservation of such
lands and waters and the hydrology, water quality and fish and
wildlife dependent thereon; and
(B) the restoration, management, or enhancement of coastal
wetlands ecosystems if such restoration, management, or
enhancement is conducted on coastal lands and waters that are
administered for the long-term conservation of such lands and
waters and the hydrology, water quality and fish and wildlife
dependent thereon;
(8) ``Governor'' means the Governor of Louisiana;
(9) ``Task Force'' means the Louisiana Coastal Wetlands
Conservation and Restoration Task Force which shall consist of the
Secretary, who shall serve as chairman, the Administrator, the
Governor, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of
Agriculture and the Secretary of Commerce; and
(10) ``Director'' means the Director of the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service.
(Pub. L. 101-646, title III, Sec. 302, N
