STATUTES ofthe CONFEDERATED TRIBES ofthe UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION As Amended Through Resolution No. 05-027 (March 7, 2005) without a required permit or in violation ofthe terms of a permit approved by the Director. 35. “Lien”: a charge, hold, claim or encumbrance upon the property of another as security for a debt or charge. 36. “Livestock”: animals of any kind, including fowl, kept or raised for sale, resale, pleasure, or other purposes. 37. “Navigable”: waters that are sufficiently deep and wide enough for navigation; such waters in the United States come under federal jurisdiction and are protected by the Clean Water Act, 33 U .S. C. §§ 1251 et seq. 38. “Non-Point Source”: diffuse or unconfined sources of pollution where waste can enter into or be conveyed by the movement of water into surfaces waters oftheReservation. 39. “Outstanding Resource Waters”: those waters designated by the Board of Trustees where existing high quality waters constitute an outstanding Tribal resource based on their extraordinary water quality, ecological or cultural values, or where special water quality protection is needed to maintain critical habitat areas. 40. “Perennial Stream”: a stream that contains flowing water throughout the year, with the possible exception of drought years. 41. “Person”: any individual or group or combination thereof acting as a unit, however associated. 42. “Point Source”: any discernable, confined, and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, landfill leachate collection system, vessel or other floating craft from which pollutants are or may be discharged. 43. “Pollutant”: can include dredge spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste entering, existing in or discharged into water. 44. “Pollution” includes such contamination, or other alteration ofthe physical, chemical, or biological properties, or any waters oftheReservation including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor ofthe waters, or such discharge of any liquid, gas, solid, radioactive, or other substance into any waters oftheConfederatedTribes as will or is likely to create a nuisance or impair any beneficial use of such waters. 45. “Premises”: land with its appurtenances. 46. “Reservation”: means the same as UmatillaIndianReservation. 47. “Revetment”: any type of artificial facing or reinforcement of a bank. 48. “Riparian Management Zone”: a Riparian Management Zone is defined as a buffer area along a stream channel established by theWater Commission for the purpose of restoration of stream channels and riparian zones. 49. “Riparian Zone”: Areas adjacent to rivers and streams with a differing density, diversity, and productivity of plant and animal species relative to nearby uplands It includes wetlands and those portions of floodplains and valley bottoms that support riparian vegetation.. WATER CODE PAGE 7
STATUTES ofthe CONFEDERATED TRIBES ofthe UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION As Amended Through Resolution No. 05-027 (March 7, 2005) 50. “Stream”: a natural watercourse, including any seep, creek, or spring, with a definite bed and banks as it existed under natural conditions. Any act of obliteration ofthe bed or banks of a stream does not cancel the existence ofthe stream, if natural processes will in the course of time and in the absence of human intervention restore it to a condition similar to that existing prior to such acts of obliteration. 51. “Stream Channel”: the bed and banks of a stream. 52. “Stream Zone”: For purposes of this code, the “stream zone” shall include the bed, banks and area of riparian vegetation of any stream, natural watercourse, seep, bog, meadow, pond, spring, or lake, with a definite bed and banks as it existed under natural conditions. Stream zones also include the bed, banks and area of riparian vegetation of man-made impoundments and constructed wetlands. 53. “Stream Zone Alteration”: any change in the course, depth, width, or topography ofthe bed or any bank of a stream, or change in the vegetative cover in the defined stream zone, due to activities other than the results of nature. 54. “Traditional Tribal Cultural Activities”: a. land or resource-use activities required for: i. the gathering, harvesting, processing, or preparation of roots, berries, fruits, herbs, medicinal plants, fish, and wildlife; ii. iii. the construction and maintenance of facilities used for the purpose of religious, spiritual, and other ceremonial activities; and any other activity not specifically listed herein which is determined by theWater Commission to be a traditional Tribal subsistence activity. b. Traditional Tribal subsistence activities include, but are not limited to the following: i. digging and gathering roots and plants for ceremonial and subsistence purposes; ii. iii. iv. gathering wood for personal use; construction and use of sweathouses; erecting structures for drying and curing subsistence foods; and v. erecting temporary shelters necessary for religious, spiritual, ceremonial, gathering, fishing, and hunting activities. 55. “Treaty of 1855”: the Treaty of June 9, 1855, 12 Stat. 945, ratified March 8, 1859, proclaimed April 11, 1859, between the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla Tribes and the U.S. Government. 56. “Trespass”: wrongful interference with or disturbance ofthe possession of property. 57. “Tribe” or “Tribal”: of or pertaining to theConfederatedTribesoftheUmatillaIndianReservation 58. “Tribal Waters”: a. All water arising upon, traversing, or bordering theUmatillaIndianReservation, whether the water is flowing or stationary, whether it is above or WATER CODE PAGE 8
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