[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 6]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR654.2]

[Page 540]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
   CHAPTER VI--NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 654_OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 654.2  Definitions.

    Evaluated life. The time period for which project or measure 
benefits and costs have been evaluated. The evaluated life starts after 
the last project measure of the evaluation unit has been completed.
    Landuser. Those who individually or collectively use land as owner, 
lessee, occupier, or by other arrangements which give them conservation 
planning or implementation concern and responsibility for the land 
involved.
    Maintenance. The work and actions required to keep works of 
improvement in a condition to function for their intended purpose and 
the replacement of portions of project measures as specified in the O&M 
agreement.
    Operation. The administration, management, and performance of 
services needed to insure the continued proper functioning of completed 
project measures.
    Operation and maintenance agreement. A written agreement between the 
sponsor(s) and NRCS or other recipient(s) in which responsibilities and 
actions are established for the operation, maintenance, replacement, and 
inspection of project measures.
    Plan of operation and maintenance. A detailed program of action to 
provide for performing the operation and maintenance of a specific 
project measure.
    Project measures. An undertaking for watershed protection; flood 
prevention; the conservation, development, utilization, and disposal of 
water; the conservation and proper utilization of land; or a combination 
thereof. The undertaking may consist of vegetative, structural, or 
management measures or a combination thereof. Vegetative measures are 
those measures involving only seedbed preparation and/or the planting of 
vegetative material.
    Public recreation and/or fish and wildlife facility. A project 
measure or part thereof which (a) creates or improves the potential for 
public recreational use and enjoyment, or (b) materially contributes to 
the preservation, production, or harvest of fish and wildlife.
    Sponsor. An agency or organization with authority to provide local 
responsibility for a Federal financially-assisted local project under a 
program administered by NRCS.
    State Conservationist. The NRCS officer responsible for NRCS 
activities within a particular State, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
or the U.S. Virgin Islands.
    Structural measures. Structural measures are those measures that are 
excavated or constructed with concrete, earth, masonry, metal, rock, or 
other materials, and associated vegetation.