[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR294.11]

[Page 385-386]
 
              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 294--SPECIAL AREAS--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart B--Protection of Inventoried Roadless Areas
 
Sec. 294.11  Definitions.

    The following terms and definitions apply to this subpart:
    Inventoried roadless areas. Areas identified in a set of inventoried 
roadless area maps, contained in Forest Service Roadless Area 
Conservation, Final Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 2, dated 
November 2000, which are held at the National headquarters office of the 
Forest Service, or any subsequent update or revision of those maps.
    Responsible official. The Forest Service line officer with the 
authority and responsibility to make decisions regarding protection and 
management of inventoried roadless areas pursuant to this subpart.
    Road. A motor vehicle travelway over 50 inches wide, unless 
designated and managed as a trail. A road may be classified, 
unclassified, or temporary.
    (1) Classified road. A road wholly or partially within or adjacent 
to National Forest System lands that is determined to be needed for 
long-term motor vehicle access, including State roads, county roads, 
privately owned roads, National Forest System roads,

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and other roads authorized by the Forest Service.
    (2) Unclassified road. A road on National Forest System lands that 
is not managed as part of the forest transportation system, such as 
unplanned roads, abandoned travelways, and off-road vehicle tracks that 
have not been designated and managed as a trail; and those roads that 
were once under permit or other authorization and were not 
decommissioned upon the termination of the authorization.
    (3) Temporary road. A road authorized by contract, permit, lease, 
other written authorization, or emergency operation, not intended to be 
part of the forest transportation system and not necessary for long-term 
resource management.
    Road construction. Activity that results in the addition of forest 
classified or temporary road miles.
    Road maintenance. The ongoing upkeep of a road necessary to retain 
or restore the road to the approved road management objective.
    Road reconstruction. Activity that results in improvement or 
realignment of an existing classified road defined as follows:
    (1) Road improvement. Activity that results in an increase of an 
existing road's traffic service level, expansion of its capacity, or a 
change in its original design function.
    (2) Road realignment. Activity that results in a new location of an 
existing road or portions of an existing road, and treatment of the old 
roadway.
    Roadless area characteristics. Resources or features that are often 
present in and characterize inventoried roadless areas, including:
    (1) High quality or undisturbed soil, water, and air;
    (2) Sources of public drinking water;
    (3) Diversity of plant and animal communities;
    (4) Habitat for threatened, endangered, proposed, candidate, and 
sensitive species and for those species dependent on large, undisturbed 
areas of land;
    (5) Primitive, semi-primitive non-motorized and semi-primitive 
motorized classes of dispersed recreation;
    (6) Reference landscapes;
    (7) Natural appearing landscapes with high scenic quality;
    (8) Traditional cultural properties and sacred sites; and
    (9) Other locally identified unique characteristics.