71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
 
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LC 3468
 
                         House Bill 3093
 
Sponsored by COMMITTEE ON STREAM RESTORATION AND SPECIES RECOVERY
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Specifies that native species include species naturally spawned
or naturally descended from species indigenous to Oregon.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to wildlife; amending ORS 541.351.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 541.351 is amended to read:
  541.351. As used in ORS 541.351 to 541.415:
  (1) 'Adaptive management' means applying management or
practices over time and across the landscape to achieve site
specific resource goals using an integrated and science based
approach that results in changes over time in response to
feedback or monitoring.
  (2) 'Associated uplands' includes those lands of a watershed
that are critical to the functioning and protection of a riparian
area.
  (3) 'Board' means the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board
created under ORS 541.360.
  (4) 'Capital expenditures' means direct expenses related to:
  (a) Personal property of a nonexpendable nature including items
that are not consumed in the normal course of operations, can
normally be used more than once, have a useful life of more than
two years and are for use in the enforcement of fish and wildlife
and habitat protection laws and regulations; or
  (b) Projects that restore, enhance or protect fish and wildlife
habitat, watershed functions, native salmonid populations or
water quality, including but not limited to:
  (A) Expenses of assessment, research, design or other technical
requirements for the implementation of a project;
  (B) The acquisition of determinate interests, including fee and
less than fee interests, in land or water in order to protect
watershed resources, including appraisal costs and other costs
directly related to such acquisitions;
  (C) Development, construction or implementation of a project to
restore, enhance or protect water quality, a watershed, fish or
wildlife, or riparian or other habitat;
  (D) Technical support directly related to the implementation of
a project; and
  (E) Monitoring or evaluation activities necessary to determine
the actual effectiveness of a project.
 
  (5) 'Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team' means the
scientific team of recognized experts in fisheries, artificial
propagation, stream ecology, forestry, range, watershed and
agricultural management created under ORS 541.409.
  (6) 'Native' means  { + a species + } indigenous to Oregon
 { - and not introduced - }  { +  or naturally spawned or
naturally descended from a species indigenous to Oregon + }.
  (7) 'Oregon Plan' means the guidance statement and framework
described in ORS 541.405.
  (8) 'Protect' or 'protection' means to minimize or mitigate
adverse effects on salmonid and habitat to the maximum extent
practicable given the anticipated duration, geographic scope and
primary purpose of proposed activities.
  (9) 'Restore' or 'restoration' means to take actions likely to
achieve sustainable population levels of native fish or wildlife
and their habitats.
  (10) 'Riparian area' means a zone of transition from an aquatic
ecosystem to a terrestrial ecosystem, dependent upon surface or
subsurface water, that reveals through the zone's existing or
potential soil-vegetation complex the influence of such surface
or subsurface water. A riparian area may be located adjacent to a
lake, reservoir, estuary, pothole, spring, bog, wet meadow,
muskeg or ephemeral, intermittent or perennial stream.
  (11) 'Soil and water conservation district' means a political
subdivision of the state as described in ORS 568.550.
  (12) 'Stewardship' means the careful and responsible management
of the environment.
  (13) 'Tribe' means a federally recognized Indian tribe in
Oregon.
  (14) 'Watershed' means the entire land area drained by a stream
or system of connected streams such that all stream flow
originating in the area is discharged through a single outlet.
  (15) 'Watershed council' means a voluntary local organization,
designated by a local government group convened by a county
governing body, to address the goal of sustaining natural
resource and watershed protection, restoration and enhancement
within a watershed.
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