N.H. Admin. Code § Res 5201.01

Current through Register No. 50, December 12, 2024
Section Res 5201.01 - Definitions
(a) "Any stream, river, or brook which normally flows throughout the year" means a stream, river, or brook with a well defined stream bed or channel, and which is not intermittent, flowing during all seasons of the year.
(b) "Director" means "director" as defined in RSA 227-G:2, IV, namely "the director of the division of forests and lands, department of resources and economic development."
(c) "Division" means "division" as defined in RSA 227-G:2, V, namely "the division of forests and lands, department of resources and economic development."
(d) "Great pond" means any body of fresh water having an area of 10 acres or more.
(e) "Mill residue" means any portion of a log or bolt, except the principal product(s) of the mill, and includes:
(1) Sawdust;
(2) Shavings;
(3) Bark;
(4) Slabs;
(5) Edgings;
(6) Trimmings;
(7) Woodchips;
(8) Chip screenings;
(9) Rejected short log sections;
(10) Log end trim;
(11) Discarded undersize logs;
(12) Discarded oversize logs;
(13) Discarded cull logs;
(14) Discarded below grade, miscut or damaged principal products; and
(15) Any brush or portion of tree limbs and tops.
(f) "Portable sawmill" means any mill processing a primary forest product and designed to be moved to new locations.
(g) "Primary forest product" means "primary forest product" as defined in RSA 227-G:2, XIII, namely "any portion of a tree, after felling, which will be processed into a secondary forest product, or will be utilized in its primary form."
(h) "Primary wood processing mill" means "primary wood processing mill" as defined in RSA 227-G:2, XIV namely "any permanent or portable mill, or any off-site log yard operated by a primary wood processing mill, wherever located, sawing or otherwise processing logs, bolts, pulpwood, or other primary forest products into secondary forest products."
(i) "Secondary forest product" means, any primary forest product that has been further processed in a mill.
(j) "Slash" means, branches, bark, tops, chunks, cull logs, uprooted stumps and broken or uprooted brush and trees left on the ground after timber harvesting operations, and other cutting operations. The term does not include wood chips and small chunks of woody debris when such materials are the result of public safety activities including but not limited to highway right of way maintenance, or woody debris placed into a body of water as part of an approved fisheries habitat improvement plan, and approved by the New Hampshire department of environmental services.
(k) "Timber harvesting operation" means the removal of primary forest products where the removal is subject to intent to cut requirements of RSA 79:10 or the removal is one of those activities identified as exceptions to the intent requirements of RSA 79:10.
(l) "Wood concentration yard" means "wood concentration yard" as defined in RSA 227-G:2, XVIII, namely "any site established and used for the purchase and resale of primary forest products from off-site locations and which is not a primary wood processing mill. Any site used primarily to process or store bark mulch shall not be a wood concentration yard."
(m) "Woodland" means "woodland" as defined in RSA 227-G:2, XIX, namely "includes cut-over land, slash, and such other land as bears a sufficient amount of wood growth, wood, weeds, grass, or other growth as to be likely to be burned over."

N.H. Admin. Code § Res 5201.01

(See Revision Note at Chapter Heading for Res 5200) #6207, eff 3-21-96, EXPIRED: 3-21-04

New. #8094, INTERIM, eff 6-4-04, EXPIRED: 12-1-04

New. #8441, eff 10-1-05 ; ss by #10547, eff 3-21-14