Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 39 > Chapter 66 - Big Payette Lake Water Quality Act

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Citizens committee: means the committee named by the council consisting of members of the public. See Idaho Code 39-6602
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Council: means the "Big Payette Lake Water Quality Council" established in this chapter. See Idaho Code 39-6602
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Lake: means the Big Payette Lake and its watershed which shall include all tributaries, and small lakes on those tributaries, to the North Fork of the Payette River above Big Payette Lake. See Idaho Code 39-6602
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;