16 U.S.C. § 941b : US Code - Section 941B: Definitions

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In this chapter -
(1) the term "Administrator" means the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency;
(2) the term "Committee" means the Great Lakes Fish and
Wildlife Restoration Proposal Review Committee established by
section 941c(c) of this title;
(3) the term "Director" means the Director of the United States
Fish and Wildlife Service;
(4) the term "fish stock" means -
(A) a taxonomically distinct species or subspecies of fish;
or
(B) any other aggregation of fish that are geographically,
ecologically, behaviorally, or otherwise limited from breeding
with individuals from other groups of fish and are capable of
management as a unit;
(5) the term "Great Lakes Basin" means the air, land, water,
and living organisms within the drainage basin of the Saint
Lawrence River at or upstream from the point at which the river
becomes the international boundary between Canada and the United
States;
(6) the term "Indian Tribe" means any Indian tribe, band,
village, nation, or other organized group or community that is
recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as eligible for the
special programs and services provided by the United States to
Indians because of their status as Indians;
(7) the term "lower Great Lakes" means the region in which is
located that portion of the Great Lakes Basin which is downstream
from the confluence of the Saint Clair River and Lake Huron near
Port Huron, Michigan;
(8) the term "non-Federal source" includes a State government,
local government, Indian tribe, other non-Federal governmental
entity, private entity, and individual;
(9) the term "nonindigenous species" means a species of plant,
animal, or other organism that did not occur in the Great Lakes
Basin before European colonization of North America;
(10) the term "Report" means the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service report entitled "Great Lakes Fishery Resources
Restoration Study", submitted to the President of the Senate and
the Speaker of the House of Representatives on September 13,
1995;
(11) the term "restoration" means rehabilitation and
maintenance of the structure, function, diversity, and dynamics
of a biological system, including reestablishment of self-
sustaining populations of fish and wildlife;
(12) the term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Army;
(13) the term "State Director" means the head of the agency,
department, board, commission, or other governmental entity of
each of the States of New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania which is responsible for the management and
conservation of the fish and wildlife resources of that State;
and
(14) the term "upper Great Lakes" means that portion of the
Great Lakes Basin which is upstream from the confluence of the
Saint Clair River and Lake Huron near Port Huron, Michigan.