[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 6]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR636.3.]

[Page 428]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
   CHAPTER VI--NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 636--WILDLIFE HABITAT INCENTIVES PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 636.3.  Definitions.

    Chief means the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service 
or the person delegated authority to act for the Chief.
    Conservation district means a political subdivision of a State, 
Native American Tribe, or territory, organized pursuant to the State or 
territorial soil conservation district law, or Tribal law. The 
subdivision may be a conservation district, soil conservation district, 
soil and water conservation district, resource conservation district, 
natural resource district, land conservation committee, or similar 
legally constituted body.
    Conservation plan means a record of a participant's decisions, and 
supporting information, for treatment of a unit of land or water, and 
includes a schedule of operations, activities, and estimated 
expenditures needed to solve identified natural resource problems.
    Cost-share agreement means the document that specifies the 
obligations and the rights of any person who has been accepted for 
participation in the program.
    Cost-share payment means the payments under this part to develop 
wildlife habitat.
    Habitat development means the physical actions or practices 
undertaken to establish, improve, protect, enhance, or restore the 
present conditions of the land for the specific purpose of improving 
conditions for wildlife.
    Participant means an applicant who is a party to a WHIP cost-share 
agreement.
    Person means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, 
cooperative, estate, trust, joint venture, joint operation, or other 
business enterprise or other legal entity and, whenever applicable, a 
State, a political subdivision of a State, or any agency thereof.
    Practice means a specified treatment, such as a structural or land 
management measure, which is planned and applied according to NRCS 
standards and specifications.
    Recurring practices means practices repeated on the same area over 
the life of a cost-share agreement to achieve specific habitat 
attributes.
    State Conservationist means the NRCS employee authorized to direct 
and supervise NRCS activities in a State, the Caribbean Area, or the 
Pacific Basin Area.
    State Technical Committee means a committee established by the 
Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture in a State 
pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 3861.
    Wildlife means birds, fishes, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, 
and mammals, along with all other animals.
    Wildlife habitat means the aquatic and terrestrial environments 
required for wildlife to complete their life cycles, including air, 
food, cover, water, and spatial requirements.