- authorized equipment
means any equipment necessary for the management of forest land.
- authorized restoration services
means similar and complementary forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration services carried out—
- conservation easement
includes an easement utilizing a reserved interest deed where the grantee acquires all rights, title, and interests in a property, except those rights, title, and interests that may run with the land that are expressly reserved by a grantor.
- Council
means the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council established under subsection (g);
- county
means—
- damaging weather
includes drought, hail, excessive moisture, freeze, tornado, hurricane, excessive wind, or any combination thereof;
- eligible entity
means a local governmental entity, Indian tribe, or nonprofit organization that owns or acquires a parcel under the program.
- eligible landowner
means a person who—
- Federal land
means land that is—
- forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration services
means—
- Fund
means the Pest and Disease Revolving Loan Fund established by subsection (b).
- good neighbor agreement
means a cooperative agreement or contract (including a sole source contract) entered into between the Secretary and a Governor or county, as applicable, to carry out authorized restoration services under this section.
- Governor
means the Governor or any other appropriate executive official of an affected State or Indian tribe or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
- Indian tribe
has the meaning given the term in section 5304 of title 25.
- local governmental entity
includes any municipal government, county government, or other local government body with jurisdiction over local land use decisions.
- mobilization
means any activity in which one firefighting organization assists another that has requested assistance.
- National Forest System road
has the meaning given the term in section 212.1 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on March 23, 2018).
- non-Federal forest land
shall mean any forest land and related renewable natural resources in such countries.
- nonindustrial private forest land
means land that—
- nonindustrial private forest lands
means rural, as determined by the Secretary, lands with existing tree cover, or suitable for growing trees, and owned by any private individual, group, association, corporation, Indian tribe, or other private legal entity.
- nonprofit organization
means any organization that—
- plan
means the National Urban and Community Forestry Action Plan developed under subsection (g)(3);
- Program
means the community forest and open space conservation program established under subsection (b).
- qualifying gross revenues
means—
- reestablish
includes site preparation, reforestation of a damaged stand, and timber stand improvement practices, including thinning, prescribed burning, and other practices approved by the Secretary for reforestation;
- related condition
includes insect infestations, disease, or other deterioration of a tree stand that is accelerated or exacerbated by damaging weather;
- road
has the meaning given the term in section 212.1 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on February 7, 2014).
- rural volunteer fire department
means any organized, not for profit, fire protection organization that provides service primarily to a community or city with a population of 10,000 or less or to a rural area, as defined by the Secretary, whose firefighting personnel is 80 percent or more volunteer, and that is recognized as a fire department by the laws of the State;
- Secretary
means—
- State forest land
means land that—
- urban and community area
includes cities, their suburbs, and towns.
- urban forestry
means the planning, establishment, protection, and management of trees and associated plants, individually, in small groups, or under forest conditions within cities, their suburbs, and towns.
- wildfire
means any forest or range fire.