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The term “dry forest and woodland ecosystem” means an ecosystem that is dominated by ponderosa pines and associated dry forest and woodland types.

The term “dry-lease aircraft exchange” means an agreement, documented by the written program agreements, under which the fractional program aircraft are available, on an as needed

The term “DTC advertisement” has the meaning indicated for such term in subsection (a)(1)(A).

The term “DTS Network” means the worldwide telecommunications network supporting all United States Government agencies and departments operating from diplomatic and consular facili

The term “DTS–PO” means the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service Program Office.

In this section, the term “dual-capable aircraft” means aircraft that can perform both conventional and nuclear missions.

Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term “dual consolidated loss” means any net operating loss of a domestic corporation which is subject to an income tax of a foreign coun

The term "dual-covered agricultural commodity" means an agricultural commodity that— (i) is produced on a certified organic farm; and (ii) is covered under both— (I) an o

The term “dual diagnosis” means coexisting substance abuse and mental illness conditions or diagnosis. Such clients are sometimes referred to as mentally ill chemical abusers (MICA

In this paragraph, the term “dual eligible individual” means an individual who is entitled to, or enrolled for, benefits under part A of subchapter XVIII, or enrolled for benefits

"dual fueled automobile" means an automobile that— (A) is capable of operating on alternative fuel or a mixture of biodiesel and diesel fuel meeting the standard establis

the term “dual fueled vehicle” means— (A) dual fueled automobile, as such term is defined in section 32901(a)(8) 2 of title 49; or (B) a motor vehicle, other than an automobile, th

The term "dual offender" means— (A) a person who commits— (i) a technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation offense or an offense involving child sexual abuse materi

The term “dual or concurrent enrollment program” means a program offered by an arrangement between the Department of Defense Education Activity and an institution of higher educati

The term "dual status youth" means a child who has come into contact with both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems and occupies various statuses in terms of th

As used in this section, the term “dual trading” means the execution of customer orders by a floor broker during the same trading session in which the floor broker executes any tra

The term “dual-use critical technology” means a critical technology that has military applications and nonmilitary applications. / The term "dual-use critical technology"

The term “dual-use material, equipment, or technology” means material, equipment, or technology that may be used in nuclear or nonnuclear applications.

For purposes of this subsection, the term “due date” means the date prescribed by law (determined without regard to extensions) for filing the return of the tax imposed by this cha

For the purposes of paragraph (2)(B), the term “due diligence” means that degree of attention, continuous directed effort, and timeliness as may reasonably be expected from, and ar

the term “due diligence requirements” means the activities required to be performed by lenders on delinquent loans pursuant to regulations issued by the Secretary;

the term “due-on-sale clause” means a contract provision which authorizes a lender, at its option, to declare due and payable sums secured by the lender's security instrument if al

“dues” means dues, fees, and assessments; / “dues” means dues, fees, and assessments; / For purposes of this subsection, the term “dues” means any payment (whether or not designate

The term “duly authorized representative” means an association of agricultural commodity producers.

The term “duly ordained minister of religion” means a person who has been ordained, in accordance with the ceremonial, ritual, or discipline of a church, religious sect, or organiz

“Dumping” means a disposition of material: Provided, That it does not mean a disposition of any effluent from any outfall structure to the extent that such disposition is regulated

The term “dumping margin” means the amount by which the normal value exceeds the export price or constructed export price of the subject merchandise.

As used in this section, the term “durable infant or toddler product”— (1) means a durable product intended for use, or that may be reasonably expected to be used, by children unde

The term “durable medical equipment” includes iron lungs, oxygen tents, hospital beds, and wheelchairs (which may include a power-operated vehicle that may be appropriately used as

If, with respect to the 1962 and 1963 crops of wheat, the Secretary determines that the acreage allotments of farms producing durum wheat are inadequate to provide for the producti

As used in this section, the term “duties and other import restrictions” includes (A) rate and form of import duties and classification of articles, and (B) limitations, prohibitio

The term “duty” includes the rate and form of any import duty, including but not limited to tariff-rate quotas.

In this section the term “duty call” means a telephone call that a railroad places to an employee to notify the employee of his or her assigned shift time.

The term “duty-free merchandise” means merchandise sold by a duty-free sales enterprise on which neither Federal duty nor Federal tax has been assessed pending exportation from the

The term “duty-free sales enterprise” means a person that sells, for use outside the customs territory, duty-free merchandise that is delivered from a bonded warehouse to an airpor

The term “duty or other import restriction” includes (A) the rate and form of an import duty, and (B) a limitation, prohibition, charge, and exaction other than duty, imposed on im

The term “dwelling” means a residential structure or mobile home which contains one to four family housing units, or individual units of condominiums or cooperatives. / The term “d

The term “dwelling unit” has the meaning given such term by section 280A(f)(1). / the term “dwelling unit” means a house or apartment used to provide living accommodations in a bui

Subject to subparagraph (B), the term “dwell time” means the time a member of the armed forces or a unit spends at the permanent duty station or home port after returning from a de

The term “dyed fuel” means any dyed diesel fuel or kerosene, whether or not the fuel was dyed pursuant to section 4082.

“dynamic assumptions” means economic assumptions that are used in determining actuarial costs and liabilities of a retirement system and in anticipating the effects of long-term fu

The term “dyslexia” means an unexpected difficulty in reading for an individual who has the intelligence to be a much better reader, most commonly caused by a difficulty in the pho

The term “dyslexia screening program” means a screening program for dyslexia that is— (A) evidence-based (as defined in section 8101(21) of the Elementary and Secondary Education A

The term “E9–1–1 services” means both phase I and phase II enhanced 9–1–1 services, as described in section 20.18 of the Commission's regulations (47 C.F.R. 20.18), as in effect on

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “earliest retirement age” means the earlier of— (i) the date on which the participant is entitled to a distribution under the plan, or (ii)

The term “early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment services” means the following items and services: (1) Screening services— (A) which are provided— (i) at intervals

For purposes of subclause (II) of this clause, the term “early approved tribe, organization, or consortium” means an Indian tribe, tribal organization, or tribal consortium that ha

The term "early childhood development" means the development and learning of a child younger than 8 years of age, including physical, cognitive, social, and emotional dev

The term "early childhood development program" means a program that seeks to ensure that every child has the conditions for healthy growth, nurturing family-based care, d

In this section, the terms “early childhood education program”, “elementary school”, and “secondary school” have the meanings given such terms in section 7801 of title 20 . / The t

The term “early childhood educator” means an individual with primary responsibility for the education of children in an early childhood education program. / The term “early childho

The term “early college high school” has the meaning given the term in section 7801 of this title . / The term “early college high school” means a partnership between at least one

The term "early distribution tax" means any increase in tax imposed under section 72(t), 220(f)(4), 223(f)(4), 409A(a)(1)(B), 529(c)(6), 529A(c)(3), or 530(d)(4).

The term “early intervention” means— (A) providing appropriate services for the child who is deaf or hard-of-hearing, including nonmedical services; and (B) ensuring that the famil

The term “early intervention activities” means advocacy, capacity building, and systemic change activities provided to individuals described in paragraph (8)(B) and their families

The term "early intervention services" means developmental services that— (A) are provided under public supervision; (B) are provided at no cost except where Federal or S

The term “early learning program” means— (A) a program of services or activities that helps parents, caregivers, and child care providers incorporate early learning into the daily

the term “early loan” means a loan enrolled at a time when the aggregate covered amount of loans previously enrolled under the Program by a particular participating financial insti

The term “early plant pest detection and surveillance” means the full range of activities undertaken to find newly introduced plant pests, whether the plant pests are new to the Un

The term “early retirees” means individuals who are age 55 and older but are not eligible for coverage under title XVIII of the Social Security Act [ 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.], and w

The term “early retirement age” means age 62 in the case of an old-age, wife's, or husband's insurance benefit, and age 60 in the case of a widow's or widower's insurance benefit.

For purposes of this paragraph, the terms “early retirement benefit” and “retirement-type subsidy” have the meaning given such terms in subsection (d)(6)(B)(i). / For purposes of t

The term "early-stage project support" includes— (A) feasibility studies; (B) resource evaluations; (C) project appraisal and costing; (D) pilot projects; (E) commercial

Early utility relocation project.—The term "early utility relocation project" means utility relocation activities identified by the State for performance before completio

The term “earned income” shall have the meaning given such term in section 32(c)(2), but such term shall not include any amounts paid or incurred by an employer for dependent care

For purposes of this title, the term “earned income advance amount” means, with respect to any payroll period, the amount determined— (A) on the basis of the employee's wages from

In this section, the term “earned value management national standard” means the most recent version of the EIA-748 Earned Value Management System Standard published by the National

The term “earnings” means compensation paid or payable for personal services, whether denominated as wages, salary, commission, bonus, or otherwise, and includes periodic payments

The term “Earth Prediction Innovation Center” means the community global weather research modeling system described in paragraph (5)(E) of section 8512(b) of this title .

In this paragraph, the term “East Asia and the Pacific” means the region of countries that the Secretary of State designates as within the responsibility of the Bureau for East Asi

the term “eastern tropical Pacific Ocean” means the area of the Pacific Ocean bounded by 40 degrees north latitude, 40 degrees south latitude, 160 degrees west longitude, and the w

For purposes of this chapter, the term “East European country” includes Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Roman

In this section, the term "eating disorder" has the meaning given the term "feeding and eating disorders" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Dis

The term “EBT card” means an electronic benefit transfer card issued under section 2016(h) of this title .

the term “ECI” means the Employment Cost Index (wages and salaries, private industry workers) published quarterly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics;

The term “ecological integrity” means a landscape where ecological processes are functioning to maintain the structure, composition, activity, and resilience of the landscape over

“Ecologically related species” means living marine species which are associated with anadromous stocks found in the Convention area, including, but not restricted to, both predator

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “economically depressed region” means any geographical region which the Corporation determines by regulation to be a region within which re

The term “economically disadvantaged” means economic hardship due to the loss of jobs or income (labor or proprietor) derived from forestry, the wood products industry, or related

The term "economically disadvantaged community" has the meaning given the term as defined by the Secretary under section 160 of the Water Resources Development Act of 202

The term "economically distressed area" means an area described in section 3161(a) of this title. / The term “economically distressed area” means an area described in sec

In this section, the term "economically sustainable transportation" means demand responsive transportation for older individuals—

As used in this section, the term “economic assistance” means assistance under chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2151 and following; relating to

“economic benefit of the overloading” means the amount obtained by multiplying the weight of the overload (in tons) by the lesser of— (A) the average freight rate value of a ton of

the term “economic damage”— (A) means the replacement costs of lost or damaged property or records, the costs of repeating an interrupted or invalidated experiment, the loss of pro

The term “economic development agencies” includes local planning and zoning commissions or boards, community development agencies, and other local agencies and institutions respons

The term "economic development agency" includes a local planning or zoning commission or board, a community development agency, or another local agency or institution res

The term "economic development district" means any area in the United States that— (i) is composed of areas described in section 3161(a) of this title and, to the extent

The term “economic discards” means fish which are the target of a fishery, but which are not retained because they are of an undesirable size, sex, or quality, or for other economi

The terms “community adjustment” and “economic diversification” include the development of feasibility studies and business plans for market diversification within a community adve

The term “economic embargo of Cuba” refers to— (A) the economic embargo (including all restrictions on trade or transactions with, and travel to or from, Cuba, and all restrictions

“Economic enterprise” means any Indian-owned (as defined by the Secretary of the Interior) commercial, industrial, or business activity established or organized for the purpose of

For purposes of this section only, and except as otherwise specifically provided in a valid and enforceable written contract between the plaintiff and the defendant in a Y2K action

The term “economic net worth” means the current cash available to the Fund, plus the net present value of all future cash inflows and outflows expected to result from the outstandi

The term "economic or industrial espionage" means— (A) stealing a trade secret or proprietary information or appropriating, taking, carrying away, or concealing, or by fr

For purposes of this subsection, the term “economic performance” has the meaning given such term by subsection (h).

The term "economic sector" means a sector of the economy of the United States.

The term “economic security” has the meaning given such term in section 474(c)(2) of this title . / The term "economic security" means the condition of having secure and

For purposes of this section, the term “economic self-sufficiency program” means any program designed to encourage, assist, train, or facilitate the economic independence of partic

The term “economic substance doctrine” means the common law doctrine under which tax benefits under subtitle A with respect to a transaction are not allowable if the transaction do