Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 87 > Chapter 5 > Part 9 - Montana Greater Sage-Grouse Stewardship 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
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Connectivity area: means an area that provides an important linkage among populations of sage grouse, particularly between core areas or priority populations in adjacent states and across international borders. See Montana Code 87-5-903
• Conservation bank: means a site or group of sites established through an agreement with the United States fish and wildlife service to provide ecological functions and services expressed as credits that are conserved and managed for sage grouse habitat and populations and used to offset debits occurring elsewhere. See Montana Code 87-5-903
• Core area: means an area that has the highest conservation value for sage grouse and has the greatest number of displaying male sage grouse and associated sage grouse habitat. See Montana Code 87-5-903
• Credit: means a defined unit of trade representing the accrual or attainment of resource functions or value at a proposed project site. See Montana Code 87-5-903
• Debit: means a defined unit of trade representing the loss of resource functions or value at an impact or project site. See Montana Code 87-5-903
• Department: means the department of natural resources and conservation. See Montana Code 87-5-903
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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.
• General habitat: means an area providing habitat for sage grouse but not identified as a core area or connectivity area. See Montana Code 87-5-903
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Habitat exchange: means a market-based system that facilitates the exchange of credits and debits between interested parties. See Montana Code 87-5-903
• Habitat quantification tool: means the scientific method used to evaluate vegetation and environmental conditions related to the quality and quantity of sage grouse habitat and to quantify and calculate the value of credits and debits. See Montana Code 87-5-903
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Male: means a member of the human species who, under normal development, has XY chromosomes and produces or would produce small, mobile gametes, or sperm, during his life cycle and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of those gametes. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Oversight team: means the Montana sage grouse oversight team established in 2-15-243. See Montana Code 87-5-903
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Montana Code 1-1-202
• Project developer: means an entity proposing an action that will result in a debit. See Montana Code 87-5-903
• Property: means real and personal property. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Real property: means lands, tenements, hereditaments, and possessory title to public lands. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Sage grouse: means the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). See Montana Code 87-5-903
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201