Sepulveda Dam Basin Master Plan - Los Angeles District - U.S. Army

Sepulveda Dam BasinMaster Plan and Environmental AssessmentOutgrant Authorizes a non-Federal entity the right to use Army-controlled real property. It is a written legaldocument that established the timeframe, consideration, conditions, and restrictions on the use of Armyproperty.Outlet works The hydraulic structure that controls the flow of water through a dam, usually consisting gatesupstream of a lined conduit or pipe.Outreach Activities Communication efforts involving programs that reach diverse populations such asstudents, teachers, organized groups such as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4-H, and the general public, beyond thephysical boundaries of Corps projects and amenities.Planning Area The planning area is a geographic space with an identified boundary that includes the areaidentified in the study authorizing document and the location of alternative plans which are often called projectareas. The locations of resources that would be directly, indirectly or cumulatively affected by alternative plansare also called the affected area.Recreation – Low Density Recreation activities such as hiking, primitive camping, wildlife observation,hunting, or similar low density recreation activities.Recreation Land developed for intensive recreation activities by the visiting public, including developedrecreation areas and areas for concession, resort, and quasi-public development. At new project, recreationareas planned for initial development will be included in this classification. Future areas will be classified asmultiple resource management until initiation of the development.Resource Objectives Clearly written statements that are specific to a project or group of projects. Theyspecify the attainable options for resource development and/or management. They must be consistent withauthorized project purposes, Federal laws and directives, regional needs, resource capabilities, and expressedpublic desires.Special Event Special events at Corps’ Basins such as water carnivals, fishing tournaments, boat regattas,music festivals, dramatic presentations, and other special recreation program of interest to the general public.Spillway Hydraulic structure whose purpose is to bypass flow that exceeds the storage and/or release capacityof a dam.Stewardship Natural resources management through a stewardship concept ensures the conservation,preservation, or protection of those resources for present and future generations. Stewardship focuses onsustaining ecosystems. Stewardship shall be applied in a biological community context, thereby providingprotection for the existing species populations, communities, habitat types and ecosystems.Traditional cultural properties Places associated with the cultural practices or beliefs of a living community.The significance of these places sites is derived from the role the property plays in a community’s culturalidentity as defined by its beliefs, practices, history and social institutions.Watershed An area characterized by all direct runoff being conveyed to the same outlet. Similar terms includebasin, drainage basin, catchment, and catch basin. A part of the surface of the earth that is occupied by adrainage system, which consists of a surface stream or a body of impounded surface water together with alltributary surface streams and bodies of impounded surface water.Acronyms and Glossary 7-4