Definitions Used In The Fee Nexus Report

Adaptive Management: To use the results of new information gathered through the monitoring program of the Plan and from other sources to adjust management strategies and practices to assist in providing for the conservation of Covered Species.

Additional Conservation Area Lands: Conserved Habitat totaling approximately 153,000 acres that are comprised of approximately 56,000 acres of State and federal acquisition and mitigation for State Permittees, and approximately 97,000 acres contributed by Local Permittees (per the February 3, 2000 letter discussed in Section 4.0 of the MSHCP, Volume I and on file with the County of Riverside).

Area Plan: A community planning area defined in the County of Riverside General Plan. Sixteen County of Riverside Area Plans are located within the MSHCP Plan Area.

Area Plan Subunit: A portion of an Area Plan for which Biological Issues and Considerations and target acreages have been specified in Section 3.3 of the MSHCP, Volume I.

Bioregion: A generalized area with similar elevation, topography, soils and floristic characteristics within the MSHCP Plan Area. Seven Bioregions are identified in the MSHCP Plan Area and are depicted in Figure 2-6 of the MSHCP, Volume I.

California Department of Fish and Game, CDFG: A department of the California Resources Agency.

California Department of Transportation, Caltrans: A department of the California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.

California Endangered Species Act, CESA: (California Fish and Game code, Section 2050 et seq.) and all rules, regulations and guidelines promulgated thereunder, as amended.

Cell: A unit within the Criteria Area generally 160 acres in size approximating one quarter section.

Cell Group: An identified grouping of cells within the Criteria Area.

Cities: The cities of Banning, Beaumont, Calimesa, Canyon Lake, Corona, Hemet, Lake Elsinore, Moreno Valley, Murrieta, Norco, Perris, Riverside, San Jacinto, and Temecula, collectively.

Community Environmental and Transportation Acceptability Program: CETAP, a process overseen by RCTC to identify future transportation and communication corridors designed to relieve current traffic congestion and provide for the County’s and the Cities’ future transportation and communication needs.

Conservation: To use, and the use of, methods and procedures within the MSHCP Conservation Area and within the Plan Area as set forth in the MSHCP Plan, that are necessary to bring any listed species to the point at which the measures provided pursuant to FESA and the California Fish and Game Code are no longer necessary. However, Permittees will have no duty to enhance, restore or revegetate MSHCP Conservation Area lands unless required by the MSHCP Plan or agreed to through implementation of the Plan.

Corridor: Refers to the alignment area or footprint for manmade linear projects such as transportation facilities, pipelines and utility lines. Corridor does not have a biological meaning in the MSHCP lexicon.

Covered Activities: Certain activities carried out or conducted by Permittees, Participating Special Entities, Third Parties Granted Take Authorization and others within the MSHCP Plan Area, as summarized in section 2 of the Nexus Report and more fully described in Section 7 of the MSHCP, Volume I: that will receive Take authorization under the Section 10(a) Permit and the NCCP Permit, provided these activities are otherwise lawful.

Covered Species: The current 146 species within the MSHCP Plan Area that will be conserved by the MSHCP when the MSHCP is implemented. These species are discussed in Section 2.1.4 of the MSHCP, Volume I, and listed in Exhibit C to the IA and Section 9.2 of the MSHCP, Volume I.

Criteria: Descriptions provided for individual Cells or Cell Groups within the Criteria Area to guide assembly of the Additional Conservation Area Lands.

Criteria Area: The area comprised of Cells depicted on Figure 3-1 of the MSHCP, Volume I.

Development: The uses to which land shall be put, including construction of buildings, structures, infrastructure and all alterations of the land.

Edge Effects: Adverse direct and indirect effects to species, Habitats and Vegetation Communities along the natural wildlands/urban interface. May include predation by mesopredators (including native and non-native predators), invasion by exotic species, noise, lighting, urban runoff and other anthropogenic impacts (trampling of vegetation, trash and toxic materials dumping, etc.)

Endangered Species: Those species listed as endangered under FESA and CESA.

Federal Endangered Species Act, FESA: 16 U.S.C., Section 1531 et seq. and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended.

Foundation Component: One of the four major land use categories in the Hearing Draft County General Plan. The Foundation Components are Community Development, Rural, Agriculture, and Multipurpose Open Space.

Funding Plan: The public and private revenue sources as discussed in Section 2.4 of the Nexus Report.

Habitat: The combination of environmental conditions of a specific place providing for the needs of a species or a population of such species.

HCP: Habitat Conservation Plan

HANS: Habitat Evaluation and Acquisition Negotiation Strategy as described in Section 6.1.1. of the MSHCP, Volume I.

Implementing Agreement: The executed agreement that implements the terms and conditions of the MSHCP.

Incidental Take (also see Take): Take of Covered Species incidental to and not the purpose of, and otherwise lawful activity, including, but not limited to, take resulting from modification of Habitat as defined in FESA and its implementing regulations.

Linkage: A connection between Core Areas with adequate size, configuration and vegetation characteristics to generally provide for “Live-In” Habitat and/or provide for genetic flow for identified Planning Species.

Live-In Habitat: Habitat that contains the necessary components to support key life history requirements of a species; e.g., year-round Habitat for permanent residents or breeding Habitat for migrant species.

Local Development Mitigation Fee (LDMF): The fee imposed by applicable local permittees on new development pursuant to Government Code Section 66000 et seq.

Local Permittees: The Regional Conservation Authority, the County, County Flood Control, County Parks, County Waste, RCTC and the Cities.

Maintenance Activities: Those Covered Activities that include the on going maintenance of public facilities as described in Section 7.0 of the MSHCP, Volume I.

MSHCP Conservation Area: Approximately 500,000 acres comprised of approximately 347,000 acres of Public/Quasi-Public Lands and approximately 153,000 acres of Additional Conservation Area Lands within Western Riverside County. The MSHCP Conservation Area provides for the conservation of the Covered Species.

MSHCP Plan Area: The boundaries of the MSHCP, consisting of an approximate 1,966 square-mile area in Western Riverside County, as depicted in Figure 1-2 of the MSHCP Plan, Volume I, and Exhibit B of the IA.

Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP): Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, a comprehensive habitat conservation planning program that addresses multiple species’ needs, including Habitat, and the preservation of native vegetation in Western Riverside County, as depicted in Figure 3-1 of the MSHCP Plan, Volume I, and Exhibit A of the IA.

NCCP Act: California Natural Community Conservation Planning Act (California Fish and Game Code, Section 2800 et seq.) including all regulation promulgated thereunder, as amended.

Narrow Endemic Plant Species: Plant species that are highly restricted by their Habitat affinities, edaphic requirements or other ecological factors, and for which specific Conservation measures have been identified in Section 6.1.3 of the MSHCP, Volume I.

Nexus Report: The Mitigation Fee Nexus Report for the Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan.

Participating Special Entity: Any regional public facility provider, such as a utility company or a public district or agency, that operates and/or owns land within the MSHCP Plan Area and that applies for Take Authorization pursuant to Section 11.8 of the IA.

Permittees: The Regional Conservation Authority, the County, County Flood Control, County Parks, County Waste, RCTC, the Cities, Caltrans and State Parks.

Plan Area: See “MSHCP Plan Area.”

Public/Quasi-Public Lands: Subset of MSHCP Conservation Area lands totaling approximately 347,000 acres of lands known to be in public/private ownership and managed for Conservation and/or open space value or lands contained in an existing Conservation Area that contribute to the Conservation of Covered Species, as generally depicted in Figure 3-1 of the MSHCP, Volume I.

Regional Conservation Authority (RCA): The Western Riverside County Regional Conservation Authority, a joint regional authority formed by the County and the Cities to provide primary policy direction for implementation of the MSHCP, as set forth in Section 6.6 of the MSHCP, Volume I, and Section 11.2 of the IA.

Conservation Area Assembly: Acquisition and Conservation of Additional Conservation Area Lands.

SKRHCP: Stephen’s Kangaroo Rat Habitat Conservation Plan.

State Parks: California Department of Parks and Recreation, a department of the California Resources Agency.

State Permittees: Caltrans and State Department of Parks and Recreation.

Take: The definition of such term in FESA with regard to species listed under FESA, and the definition of such term in the California Fish and Game Code with regard to species listed under CESA.

Third Party Granted Take Authorization: Any Third Party that receives Third Party Take Authorization in compliance with Section 17 of the IA.

Third Party Take Authorization: Take Authorization received by a landowner, developer, farming interest or other public or private entity from the Permittees pursuant to Section17 of the IA, thereby receiving Take Authorization for Covered Species Adequately Conserved pursuant to the Permits and in conformance with the MSHCP and IA.

Threatened Species: Those species listed as threatened under FESA and CESA.

Unlisted Species: A species that is not listed as rare, endangered or threatened under FESA, CESA or other applicable state or federal law.

United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS): An agency of the United States Department of the Interior.

Wildlife Agencies: The USFWS and CDFG, collectively.