PUBLIC LAW 103-177—DEC. 3, 1993
107 STAT. 2013
(10) The term Indian tribe" means any Indian tribe, band,
nation, pueblo, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional corporation as defined
in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), which is recognized as
eHgible for the special programs and services provided by the
United States to Indians because of their status as Inoians.
(11) The term "integrated resource management plan"
means the plan developed pursuant to the process used by
tribal governments to assess available resources and to provide
identified holistic management objectives that include Quality
of life, production goals and landscape descriptions of all designated resources that may include (but not be limited to)
water, fish, wildlife, forestry, agriculture, minerals, and recreation, as well as community and municipal resources, and
may include any previously adopted tribal codes and plans
related to such resources.
(12) The term "land management activity" means all activi-
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ties, accomplished in support of the management of Indian
agricultural lands, including (but not limited to)—
(A) preparation of soil and range inventories, farmland
and rangeland management plans, and monitoring programs to evaluate management plans;
(B) agricultviral lands and on-farm irrigation delivery
system development, and the application of state of the
8J*t, soil and range conservation management techniaues
to restore and ensure the productive potential of Indian
lands;
(C) protection against agricultural pests, including
development, implementetion, and evaluation of integrated
pest management programs to control noxious weeds,
undesirable vegetetion, and vertebrate or invertebrate agricultural pests;
(D) administration and supervision of agricultural leasing and permitting activities, including determination of
proper land use, carrying capacities, and proper stocking
rates of livestock, appraisal, advertisement, negotiation,
contract preparation, collecting, recording, and distributing
lease rental receipts;
(E) technical assistence to individuals and tribes
engaged in agricultural production or agribusiness; and
(F) educational assistance in agriculture, naturcd
resources, land management and related fields of study,
including direct assistence to tribally-controUed community
colleg[es in developing and implementing curriculum for
vocational, technical, and professional course work.
(13) The term "Indian landowner" means the Indian or
Indian tribe that—
(A) owns such Indian land, or
(B) is the beneficiary of the trust under which such
Indian land is held by the United States.
(14) The term "rangeland" means Indian land, excluding
Indian forest land, on which the native vegetetion is predominantly grasses, grass-like plants, forbs, half-shrubs or shrubs
suiteble for grazing or browsing use, and includes lands
revegeteted naturally or artificially to provide a forage cover
that is managed as native vegetetion.
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