Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 11 - STATE CONSERVATION COMMISSION
Article 13 - KANSAS SEDIMENT AND NUTRIENT REDUCTION INITIATIVE
Section 11-13-1 - Definitions

(a) "Bottomland timber establishment" means the trees planted in floodplains adjacent to perennial streams to provide wildlife habitat and other benefits.

(b) "CRP" means the conservation reserve program administered by the USDA farm service agency.

(c) "Director" means the executive director of the division of conservation, Kansas department of agriculture or the executive director's designee.

(d) "Farmable wetland or farmable wetland buffer" means land eligible for restoration by improving the land's hydrology and vegetation.

(e) "Filter strip" means a strip or area of grass for removing sediment, organic mater, and other pollutants from runoff and wastewater and for providing food and cover for wildlife.

(f) "FSA" means the farm service agency in the USDA.

(g) "Grassed waterway" means a designated strip of grass that is designed to convey runoff and gully erosion for the purpose of improving water quality and providing wildlife habitat.

(h) "Habitat buffers for upland birds" means a narrow band of native grasses, legumes, forbs, or shrubs, or any combination of these, to provide habitat for bobwhite quail, ring-necked pheasant, and other upland birds and to limit the amount of nutrients, sediment, pesticides, and other contaminants entering water bodies.

(i) "HUC 12 watershed" means a hydrological unit code consisting of a sequence of 12 numbers identifying a hydrological feature like a river, river reach, or lake or an area like a drainage basin.

(j) "Initiative" means the Kansas water quality buffer initiative and the application requirements for the program specified in this article of the division of conservation's regulations. This term is also known as the Kansas sediment and nutrient reduction initiative.

(k) "NRCS" means natural resources conservation service.

(l) "Practices" means the use of cultural techniques or structures installed or constructed on land for the purpose of improving or maintaining water quality.

(m) "Program-eligible area" means the Big Creek, Delaware, Little Arkansas, Lower Big Blue, Lower Kansas, Lower Little Blue, Lower Republican, Lower Smoky Hill, Neosho Headwaters, Upper Cottonwood, and Lower Cottonwood watersheds.

(n) "Program-eligible boundaries" means the boundaries based on HUC 12 watersheds that are above Tuttle Creek, Milford, Perry, John Redmond, and Clinton reservoirs and are identified as target areas for nutrient and sediment reduction in watershed restoration and protection strategy plans. The program-eligible boundaries shall contain two tiers for priority enrollment, which are called tier 1 areas and tier 2 areas.

(o) "Shallow water areas for wildlife" means wet areas that have been developed or restored and include 6-18 inches of water depth for wildlife.

(p) "Tier 1 areas" means those HUC 12 watersheds identified in watershed restoration and protection strategy plans as the highest priority target areas for nutrient and sediment reduction within program-eligible boundaries.

(q) "Tier 2 areas" means all areas within the program-eligible boundaries that are not tier 1 areas.

(r) "Unfarmable field" means the remaining portion of a field in which 51 percent or more of the total acreage has been enrolled in CRP.

(s) "USDA" means United States department of agriculture.

(t) "Wetland restoration" means the restoration of constructed wetlands for the purpose of intercepting tile runoff, reducing nutrient loss, improving water quality, and enhancing agricultural production practices.

(u) "WRAPS" means watershed restoration and protection strategy, which consists of a planning and management framework intended to engage stakeholders in a process to identify watershed restoration. The process documents stakeholder goals, strategies to achieve the goals, and the resources required to implement the strategies.