Kan. Admin. Regs. § 11-13-1 - Definitions
Each of the following terms, as used in this article of the division of conservation's regulations, shall have the meaning specified in this regulation:
(a) "Bottomland
timber establishment" means the trees planted in floodplains adjacent to
perennial streams to provide wildlife habitat and other benefits.
(b) "CRP" means the conservation reserve
program administered by the USDA farm service agency.
(c) "Director" means the executive director
of the division of conservation, Kansas department of agriculture or the
executive director's designee.
(d)
"Farmable wetland or farmable wetland buffer" means land eligible for
restoration by improving the land's hydrology and vegetation.
(e) "Filter strip" means a strip or area of
grass for removing sediment, organic mater, and other pollutants from runoff
and wastewater and for providing food and cover for wildlife.
(f) "FSA" means the farm service agency in
the USDA.
(g) "Grassed waterway"
means a designated strip of grass that is designed to convey runoff and gully
erosion for the purpose of improving water quality and providing wildlife
habitat.
(h) "Habitat buffers for
upland birds" means a narrow band of native grasses, legumes, forbs, or shrubs,
or any combination of these, to provide habitat for bobwhite quail, ring-necked
pheasant, and other upland birds and to limit the amount of nutrients,
sediment, pesticides, and other contaminants entering water bodies.
(i) "HUC 12 watershed" means a hydrological
unit code consisting of a sequence of 12 numbers identifying a hydrological
feature like a river, river reach, or lake or an area like a drainage
basin.
(j) "Initiative" means the
Kansas water quality buffer initiative and the application requirements for the
program specified in this article of the division of conservation's
regulations. This term is also known as the Kansas sediment and nutrient
reduction initiative.
(k) "NRCS"
means natural resources conservation service.
(l) "Practices" means the use of cultural
techniques or structures installed or constructed on land for the purpose of
improving or maintaining water quality.
(m) "Program-eligible area" means the Big
Creek, Delaware, Little Arkansas, Lower Big Blue, Lower Kansas, Lower Little
Blue, Lower Republican, Lower Smoky Hill, Neosho Headwaters, Upper Cottonwood,
and Lower Cottonwood watersheds.
(n) "Program-eligible boundaries" means the
boundaries based on HUC 12 watersheds that are above Tuttle Creek, Milford,
Perry, John Redmond, and Clinton reservoirs and are identified as target areas
for nutrient and sediment reduction in watershed restoration and protection
strategy plans. The program-eligible boundaries shall contain two tiers for
priority enrollment, which are called tier 1 areas and tier 2 areas.
(o) "Shallow water areas for wildlife" means
wet areas that have been developed or restored and include 6-18 inches of water
depth for wildlife.
(p) "Tier 1
areas" means those HUC 12 watersheds identified in watershed restoration and
protection strategy plans as the highest priority target areas for nutrient and
sediment reduction within program-eligible boundaries.
(q) "Tier 2 areas" means all areas within the
program-eligible boundaries that are not tier 1 areas.
(r) "Unfarmable field" means the remaining
portion of a field in which 51 percent or more of the total acreage has been
enrolled in CRP.
(s) "USDA" means
United States department of agriculture.
(t) "Wetland restoration" means the
restoration of constructed wetlands for the purpose of intercepting tile
runoff, reducing nutrient loss, improving water quality, and enhancing
agricultural production practices.
(u) "WRAPS" means watershed restoration and
protection strategy, which consists of a planning and management framework
intended to engage stakeholders in a process to identify watershed restoration.
The process documents stakeholder goals, strategies to achieve the goals, and
the resources required to implement the strategies.
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