The following words or terms used in this subchapter shall have the meaning described below unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Advisory Committee" means the group established by the Commissioner of Agriculture to assist with the program, and is equivalent to the State's Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committee, established pursuant to section 16 USC 2113 of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act as amended ( 16 U.S.C. 2101, et seq).
"Applicant" means the person who applies for cost-share assistance under the program.
"Area Forester" means the forester in charge of a designated Forestry Services Administrative Area who provides basic oversight of the cost-share program in their assigned area.
"Cost-share" means the payment that is used to offset part of the cost incurred by an approved applicant for implementation of an approved practice authorized under the program.
"Forester" means the professional natural resources manager who provides information and technical assistance to program participants.
"Fund" means the forestry cost-share revolving fund, authorized at Title 2 O.S. Section 16-11.
"Landowner" means the owner of non-industrial private forestland or a leaseholder who controls the land for the minimum length of time for a practice to be established, but shall not mean corporations whose stocks are publicly traded, owners principally engaged in the processing or manufacture of wood products, governmental entities and public utilities.
"Management plan" means the written plan prepared by a natural resources management professional and approved by the Department that describes projects and activities to be carried out by the landowner, consistent with the landowner's objectives.
"Non-industrial private forestland" means rural lands with existing tree cover, or which are suitable for growing trees, and are owned by any non-industrial private individual, group, association, corporation, Indian tribe, or other private legal entity so long as the individual, group, association, corporation, tribe, or entity has definitive decision-making authority over the lands.
"Practice" means a prescribed forestry activity consistent with the management plan and implemented through the program that results in improved conditions on eligible private lands. A practice may consist of multiple activities.
"Practice plan" means the written document that contains site-specific technical recommendations on proper installation of requested practices.
"Project" means the purpose for which an applicant requests funding assistance under this program.
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