§670k Definitions

Summary

Defines the main words used in this part of the law. Administrator means the head of NASA. Chairman means the head of the Atomic Energy Commission. Off-road vehicle means a motorized vehicle built for cross-country travel over natural terrain, but it does not include registered motorboats if a State allows that, emergency or military or law-enforcement vehicles used in emergencies, or vehicles specifically allowed by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture under a permit, lease, license, or contract. Public land means lands run by the Interior Secretary, Agriculture Secretary, the Chairman, or the Administrator, excluding military reservations, units of the National Park System, national wildlife refuges, Indian reservations, and lands held in trust for Indians or tribes. State agency means the state office that enforces fish and game laws. Conservation and rehabilitation programs means the methods used to protect, conserve, and improve fish, wildlife, and game on those public lands, including scientific management like protection, research, counts, law enforcement, habitat work, breeding, live trapping and moving animals, and regulated taking, and it does not reduce state authority over resident species except where another law says otherwise.