16 U.S.C. § 670k — Definitions

(1) “Administrator” means the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2) “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. (3) “Off-road vehicle” means a motorized vehicle designed for, or able to make, cross-country travel on or immediately over land, water, sand, snow, ice, marsh, swamp, or other natural terrain. It does not include: (A) a registered motorboat, if a State chooses to treat it that way; (B) a military, fire, emergency, or law-enforcement vehicle when used for an emergency; or (C) a vehicle whose use the Interior or Agriculture Secretary expressly authorizes under a permit, lease, license, or contract. (4) “Public land” means land under the jurisdiction of the Interior Secretary, Agriculture Secretary, Chairman, or Administrator, except land that is or later becomes or is designated as: (A) a military reservation; (B) a National Park System unit; (C) part of the national wildlife refuge system; (D) an Indian reservation; or (E) land within an Indian reservation or held in trust by the United States for an Indian or Indian tribe. (5) “State agency” means the State agency or agencies responsible for administering the State’s fish and game laws. (6) “Conservation and rehabilitation programs” means using methods and procedures needed, as far as practicable, to protect, conserve, and improve wildlife, fish, and game resources on public land covered by this subchapter, consistently with applicable land-use and management plans. These methods include scientific resource management activities such as protection, research, counting, law enforcement, habitat management, propagation, live trapping and moving animals, and regulated taking that follows this subchapter. This definition does not reduce the States’ authority or jurisdiction over resident fish, wildlife, or game species, unless another law provides otherwise.