§2902 Definitions

Summary

Lists plain meanings for key words used in the chapter. Council means the Estuary Habitat Restoration Council created under section 2904. Estuary means part of a river, stream, or other water that stays connected to the open sea and mixes seawater with fresh water. It also covers near-coastal waters and Great Lakes wetlands that act like estuaries, including areas in the Great Lakes biogeographic region that were named National Estuarine Research Reserves under the Coastal Zone Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.) as of November 7, 2000. Estuary habitat means the physical, biological, and chemical parts of an estuary and its linked ecosystems. Estuary habitat restoration activity means actions to improve or create estuary habitat so it becomes a self-sustaining system. Examples include restoring physical, chemical, hydrologic, and biological features; cleaning pollution for the benefit of habitat (with exceptions below); controlling invasive species; reintroducing native species; building reefs for fish and shellfish; and other improvements. It does not include activities that are required as mitigation under federal or state law or that are restoration required for natural resource damages. Estuary habitat restoration project means a project that carries out such an activity. Estuary habitat restoration plan means a federal, state, or regional plan made with strong public and private stakeholder participation and includes plans under section 1330, section 1268, the Coastal Zone Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.), and the Chesapeake Bay interstate plan under section 1267. Indian tribe has the meaning in 25 U.S.C. 5304. Non-Federal interest means a State, a political subdivision of a State, an Indian tribe, a regional or interstate agency, or, as allowed in section 2903(f)(2), a nongovernmental organization. Secretary means the Secretary of the Army. State means the States of Alabama, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam.