§ 941b. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC941b]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 15B--GREAT LAKES FISH AND WILDLIFE RESTORATION
Sec. 941b. Definitions
In this chapter--
(1) the term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency;
(2) the term ``Committee'' means the Great Lakes Fish and
Wildlife Restoration Proposal Review Committee established by
section 941c(c) of this title;
(3) the term ``Director'' means the Director of the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service;
(4) the term ``fish stock'' means--
(A) a taxonomically distinct species or subspecies of fish;
or
(B) any other aggregation of fish that are geographically,
ecologically, behaviorally, or otherwise limited from breeding
with individuals from other groups of fish and are capable of
management as a unit;
(5) the term ``Great Lakes Basin'' means the air, land, water,
and living organisms within the drainage basin of the Saint Lawrence
River at or upstream from the point at which the river becomes the
international boundary between Canada and the United States;
(6) the term ``Indian Tribe'' means any Indian tribe, band,
village, nation, or other organized group or community that is
recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as eligible for the
special programs and services provided by the United States to
Indians because of their status as Indians;
(7) the term ``lower Great Lakes'' means the region in which is
located that portion of the Great Lakes Basin which is downstream
from the confluence of the Saint Clair River and Lake Huron near
Port Huron, Michigan;
(8) the term ``non-Federal source'' includes a State government,
local government, Indian tribe, other non-Federal governmental
entity, private entity, and individual;
(9) the term ``nonindigenous species'' means a species of plant,
animal, or other organism that did not occur in the Great Lakes
Basin before European colonization of North America;
(10) the term ``Report'' means the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service report entitled ``Great Lakes Fishery Resources
Restoration Study'', submitted to the President of the Senate and
the Speaker of the House of Representatives on September 13, 1995;
(11) the term ``restoration'' means rehabilitation and
maintenance of the structure, function, diversity, and dynamics of a
biological system, including reestablishment of self-sustaining
populations of fish and wildlife;
(12) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Army;
(13) the term ``State Director'' means the head of the agency,
department, board, commission, or other governmental entity of each
of the States of New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which is
responsible for the management and conservation of the fish and
wildlife resources of that State; and
(14) the term ``upper Great Lakes'' means that portion of the
Great Lakes Basin which is upstream from the confluence of the Saint
Clair River and Lake Huron near Port Huron, Michigan.
(Pub. L. 101-537, title I, Sec. 1004, Nov. 8, 1990, 104 Stat. 2371; Pub.
L. 101-646, title II, Sec. 2004, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4774; Pub. L.
104-332, Sec. 2(h)(1), Oct. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 4091; Pub. L. 105-265,
Secs. 3(b), 5, Oct. 19, 1998, 112 Stat. 2358, 2359.)
Codification
Title I of Pub. L. 101-537 and title II of Pub. L. 101-646 enacted
substantially identical sections. Title II of Pub. L. 101-646 was
repealed by Pub. L. 105-265, Sec. 3(b).
Amendments
1998--Pub. L. 105-265, Sec. 5(1), made technical amendment to
reference in original act which appears in introductory provisions as
reference to this chapter.
Pars. (2) to (7). Pub. L. 105-265, Sec. 5(2), (5), added par. (2)
and redesignated former pars. (2) to (6) as (3) to (7), respectively.
Former par. (7) redesignated (14).
Par. (8). Pub. L. 105-265, Sec. 5(6), added par. (8). Former par.
(8) redesignated (9).
Par. (9). Pub. L. 105-265, Sec. 5(2), (4), redesignated par. (8) as
(9) and substituted ``plant, animal, or other organism'' for ``plant or
animal''. Former par. (9) redesignated (12).
Pars. (10), (11). Pub. L. 105-265, Sec. 5(7), added pars. (10) and
(11). Former par. (10) redesignated (13).
Par. (12). Pub. L. 105-265, Sec. 5(2), (8), redesignated par. (9) as
(12) and struck out ``and'' at end.
Par. (13). Pub. L. 105-265, Sec. 5(2), (9), redesignated par. (10)
as (13) and substituted ``; and'' for period at end.
Par. (14). Pub. L. 105-265, Sec. 5(2), (3), redesignated par. (7) as
(14).
1996--Pub. L. 104-332 made technical amendment to Pub. L. 101-646,
Sec. 2004, which enacted this section.
