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This act further provides that if basin-specific standards agreed upon 

 by representatives of State resource ag'.ncies, forest management personnel 

 and private citizens are violated, this act empowers the department to 

 investigate, provide findings, levy fines and provide redress for damage 

 caused to the State's air, soil or water resources by forest practices. 



Section 103 Definitions. Unless the context requires otherv/ise, in this 

 chapter: 



(1) "Operation" means a commercial activity relating to the growing, 

 harvesting, or processing of forest products on forest lands. 



(2) "Forest lands" mean those lands growing forest tree species which 

 furnish, or could at maturity furnish, raw material used in the manufacture 

 of lumber or other forest oroducts. This definition does not include 

 those lands which have been converted from growing trees to uses other 

 than commercial forest production. 



(3) "Operator" means a person engaged in conducting an operation. 



(4) "Person" means a person, partnership, corporation, association or 

 other legal entity, or any political subdivision, or agency of the State. 



(5) "Harvesting" means an activity related to the removal of forest 

 tree species including the clearing of forest tree species from land for 

 conversion to a non-forest use such as grazing, agriculture, road devel- 

 opment, subdivision activity. 



(6) "Rules" means those rules adoDt°d by the board pursuant to this act. 



(7) "Landowner" means a person, partnershio, coroord*. inn, association 

 or other legal entity, or any political subdivision or agency of the 

 State, that holds an ownership iritorcst ir forest land. 



(8) "Timber owner" means a person, pit tiu-rship, cor!:)oration, association 

 or other legal entity, or any political subdivision or agency of the 

 State, that holds an ownership interest in forest tree species. 



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