[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR292.41]

[Page 390-391]
 
              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 292--NATIONAL RECREATION AREAS--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart F--Hells Canyon National Recreation Area--Federal Lands
 
Sec. 292.41  Definitions.

    Special terms used in this subpart are defined as follows:
    ``Act'' means the Act of December 31, 1975, as amended (Pub. L. 94-
199, 89 Stat. 1117) which established the Hells Canyon National 
Recreation Area.
    ``Authorized Officer'' is a Forest Service line officer who has been 
delegated the authority to take certain actions pursuant to the 
provisions of this subpart.
    ``Comprehensive Management Plan'' is the document that establishes 
the array, levels, and manner of resource uses within the HCNRA. It is 
incorporated as part of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Land and 
Resource Management Plan.
    ``Cultural resources'' means historic and archeological resources.
    ``HCNRA'' is the abbreviation for the Hells Canyon National 
Recreation Area.
    ``Mechanical equipment'' means any contrivance which travels over 
ground, snow or water on wheels, tracks, skids, or by flotation that is 
powered by a living source. This term does not include non-motorized 
rivercraft which is defined separately herein, wheelchairs, or other 
similar devices used solely to assist persons with disabilities.
    ``Mining'' means any activity related to the discovery, extraction 
and exploitation of minerals under the Mining Act of 1872, 30 U.S.C. 22 
et seq., and the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, 30 U.S.C. 181 et seq., 
through the use of, among other things, hydraulic equipment, pans, 
ground sluicing, sluice boxes, rockers, or suction dredges.
    ``Motorized equipment'' means any machine powered by a nonliving 
source. This term does not include motorized rivercraft which is defined 
separately

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herein or small, hand-held devices such as flashlights, shavers, 
wristwatches, and Geiger counters.
    ``Motorized rivercraft'' means any boat capable of being 
mechanically propelled by propeller(s) or jet pump(s) upstream through 
rapids.
    ``Non-Motorized rivercraft'' means any boat which is not a motorized 
rivercraft.
    ``Other lands'' means all National Forest System lands in the HCNRA 
except for Wild and Scenic Rivers and Wilderness Lands.
    ``Paleontological resources'' means any remains, trace, or imprint 
of a plant or animal that has been preserved in the Earth's crust prior 
to the Holocene epoch.
    ``Selective cutting'' means single tree or group selection cutting 
and is the periodic removal of trees individually or in small groups 
from an uneven aged forest in order to maintain diverse stands, with the 
sustainability and improvement of the forest using an ecosystem approach 
to management being a primary consideration.
    ``Suitable'' means it is appropriate to apply certain resource 
management practices to a particular area of land, as determined by an 
ecological and environmental analysis of the land. A unit of land may be 
suitable for a variety of individual or combined management practices.
    ``Wild and Scenic Rivers'' means the segments of the Snake, Rapid, 
and Imnaha Rivers designated as components of the National Wild and 
Scenic Rivers System and any other river or segment thereof in the HCNRA 
hereafter designated. Wild and Scenic Rivers include all National Forest 
System lands within the designated Wild and Scenic River corridor.
    ``Wilderness lands'' means the Hells Canyon Wilderness, that portion 
of the Eagle Cap Wilderness in the HCNRA, and any other wilderness in 
the HCNRA hereafter designated as components of the National Wilderness 
Preservation System.