Reference area definition

Reference area means a land unit maintained under appropriate management for the purpose of measuring vegetation ground cover, productivity and plant species diversity that are produced naturally or by crop production methods approved by the division. Reference areas must be representative of geology, soil, slope, and vegetation in the permit area.

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Reference area means a land unit maintained under appropriate management for the

Reference area means an area proclaimed to be a reference area under the Reference Areas Act 1978;

Examples of Reference area in a sentence

• In addition, the ratio of Σalkylated-PHN/PHN in mussels from Port ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Bay and the Hood Head Reference area ranged from 0.93 to 1.53; the Penn Cove Baseline mussels had a ratio of 0.52.

• Provider(s) Incident consists of stored information applicable to an active State Patrol Dispatch Conditions incident that has impact on current travel conditions Center Link consists of a commonly defined set of point, linear, and External Information Reference area geographical locations, such as roadway links, which Source(s) Model ITS systems use to share geographical information between themselves.

• The sites most similar to the starting condition in terms of this ratio included the Hood Head Reference area, the Southeast Shoreline and the Former Lease Area.

More Definitions of Reference area

Reference area means a land unit established to evaluate revegetation success. A “Reference area” is representative of a vegetation community or communities that will be affected by mining activities, in terms of physiography, soils, vegetation and land use history. The “Reference area” and its corresponding postmine vegetation community (or communities) must be approved by LQD and shall be defined in the approved Reclamation Plan. All “Reference areas” shall be managed to not cause significant changes in the vegetation parameters which will be used to evaluate Chapter 4 revegetation success performance standards. A “Reference area” can be a “Comparison area”, “Control area”, “Extended reference area”, or “Limited reference area”, depending on how it is established and used, in accordance with the following provisions:

Reference area means a land unit maintained under appropriate management for the purpose of measuring vegetative ground cover, productivity, and plant species diversity that are produced naturally or by crop production methods approved by the cabinet.

Reference area means a land unit maintained under appropriate management for the purpose of measuring vegetative ground cover, productivity, and plant species diversity that are produced naturally or by crop production methods approved by the cabinet pursuant to 405 KAR 16:200 and 18:200.

Reference area means an area as uncontaminated as possible that may or may not be within the background area and may or may not be in close proximity to the site. The reference area must not be influenced by the site discharge itself or from regulated contaminated sites slated for remedial investigation or remedial action, and should only be influenced by natural sources (not man-made) or unavoidable diffuse anthropogenic sources. The samples should not be collected from locations directly influenced by or in proximity to other obvious sources of contamination (e.g., other contaminated sites, sewer and storm-water outfalls, tributaries, and other point and nonpoint source discharges). The reference area must have a habitat similar to the habitat being assessed in terms of physical, geochemical, and biological characteristics.

Reference area means a habitat similar to the habitat being assessed but which is not contaminated. The reference area may or may not be within the background area.

Reference area means a land unit which is representative of geology, soil, slope, and vegetation in the permit area and which is maintained under appropriate management for the purpose of measuring vegetation ground cover, productivity and plant species diversity that are produced naturally or by crop production methods approved by the commissioner;