Surface Disturbance definition

Surface Disturbance means any disturbance of an area which causes a lasting impact to the land or waters during the activity or after the activity has ceased.
Surface Disturbance or “Surface disturbing” means any ground disturbing or ground breaking activity, including but not limited to blading, scraping, contouring, excavating, trenching, drilling, digging, burying, paving, covering, or compacting soil surfaces, whether or not previously disturbed, and whether or not the person engaged in those activities is authorized to occupy or use state trust lands.
Surface Disturbance means all disturbance, including excavation associated with water management structures or other infrastructure, other than sub-surface disturbance.

Examples of Surface Disturbance in a sentence

  • Zone A - No New Surface Disturbance in Occupied Habitat within the Black River and Delaware River.

  • From table 1, we can see that the mean daily returns for that fourteen-year period ranges between a maximum of 0.0008868 (in Sweden and Iceland) and a minimum of 0.0001556 in the United Kingdom.The overall mean return is 0.0162, while the mean return for Non-Mondays is 0.02 and the mean return including Mondays but excluding one other day of the week is 0.01525.

  • Conducting New Surface Disturbance is at the discretion of the Participant.

  • Any New Surface Disturbance or seismic activities would reinstate the need for a 15-Day Notice to CEHMM.

  • Within 10 days of receiving notification of cancelled New Surface Disturbance or seismic activities from the Participant, CEHMM will refund the associated Habitat Conservation Fee to the Participant’s habitat conservation fund account.

  • Voluntary or involuntary termination of the CI will relieve a Participant of any additional Habitat Conservation Fees for future New Surface Disturbance on the terminated parcels.

  • In addition to payment of Habitat Conservation Fees or contribution of in-kind services, oil and gas Participants agree to implement the following Conservation Measures for New Surface Disturbance to avoid and minimize impacts to Covered Species.

  • Within 72-hours after Emergency Operations that result in New Surface Disturbance.

  • Install Weatherstar (AWS) Urethane 520 at 1.5 gallon per square to the entire roof system.

  • Oil and gas Participants will provide notice of New Surface Disturbance and seismic activities as described in Section XV.


More Definitions of Surface Disturbance

Surface Disturbance means clearing, covering or moving land by means of mechanized earthmoving equipment for aggregate mining and exploration but does not include surveying, assessment and location work, seismic work, maintenance and other such activities that create a de minimis disturbance.
Surface Disturbance means any disturbance of an area which causes a lasting impact to
Surface Disturbance means clearing, covering or moving land by means of mechanized earth-moving equipment for mineral exploration, development and production purposes but does not include surveying, assessment and location work, seismic work, maintenance and other such activities that create a de minimis disturbance.

Related to Surface Disturbance

  • Disturbance Control Standard or “DCS” shall mean the reliability standard that sets the time limit following a disturbance within which a balancing authority must return its Area Control Error to within a specified range.

  • farm building means that part of a bona fide farming operation encompassing barns, silos and other ancillary development to an agricultural use, but excluding a residential use;

  • Surface water means all water which is open to the atmosphere and subject to surface runoff.

  • Sanitary landfill means a disposal facility for solid waste so located, designed and operated that it

  • Leased Premises means the Leased Premises as defined in Paragraph 1.