Sec. 3. DEFINITIONS

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## SEC. 3 DEFINITIONS In this Act: ####

(1)Administrator The term “**Administrator**” means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. ####

(2)Assistant secretary The term “**Assistant Secretary**” means the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works. ####

(3)Chair The term “**Chair**” means the Chair of the Federal Partnership. ####

(4)Compact The term “**Compact**” means the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact included in the first section of Public Law 96–551 (94 Stat. 3233). ####

(5)Directors The term “**Directors**” means— #####

(A)the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; and #####

(B)the Director of the United States Geological Survey. ####

(6)Environmental improvement program The term “**Environmental Improvement Program**” means— #####

(A)the Environmental Improvement Program adopted by the Planning Agency; and #####

(B)any amendments to the Program. ####

(7)Environmental threshold carrying capacity The term “**environmental threshold carrying capacity**” has the meaning given the term in Article II of the Compact. ####

(8)Federal partnership The term “**Federal Partnership**” means the Lake Tahoe Federal Interagency Partnership established by Executive Order 13057 (62 Fed. Reg. 41249) (or a successor Executive order). ####

(9)Forest management activity The term “**forest management activity**” includes— #####

(A)prescribed burning for ecosystem health and hazardous fuels reduction; #####

(B)mechanical and minimum tool treatment; #####

(C)stream environment zone restoration and other watershed and wildlife habitat enhancements; #####

(D)nonnative invasive species management; and #####

(E)other activities consistent with Forest Service practices, as the Secretary determines to be appropriate. ####

(10)Maps The term “**Maps**” means the maps— #####

(A)entitled— ######

(i)“**LTRA USFS–CA Land Exchange/North Shore**”; ######

(ii)“**LTRA USFS–CA Land Exchange/West Shore**”; and ######

(iii)“**LTRA USFS–CA Land Exchange/South Shore**”; and #####

(B)dated January 4, 2016, and on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of— ######

(i)the Forest Service; ######

(ii)the California Tahoe Conservancy; and ######

(iii)the California Department of Parks and Recreation. ####

(11)National wildland fire code The term “**national wildland fire code**” means— #####

(A)the most recent publication of the National Fire Protection Association codes numbered 1141, 1142, 1143, and 1144; #####

(B)the most recent publication of the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code of the International Code Council; or #####

(C)any other code that the Secretary determines provides the same, or better, standards for protection against wildland fire as a code described in subparagraph

(A)or (B). ####

(12)Planning agency The term “**Planning Agency**” means the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency established under Public Law 91–148 (83 Stat. 360) and Public Law 96–551 (94 Stat. 3233). ####

(13)Priority list The term “**Priority List**” means the environmental restoration priority list developed under section 5(b). ####

(14)Secretary The term “**Secretary**” means the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service. ####

(15)Stream environment zone The term “**Stream Environment Zone**” means an area that generally owes the biological and physical characteristics of the area to the presence of surface water or groundwater. ####

(16)Total maximum daily load The term “**total maximum daily load**” means the total maximum daily load allocations adopted under section 303(d) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1313(d)). ####

(17)Watercraft The term “**watercraft**” means motorized and non-motorized watercraft, including boats, seaplanes, personal watercraft, kayaks, and canoes.

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