NR 1.91(2)(a)(a) “Abandon”, “abandonment”, “discontinuance” means a permanent or long-term closure of an access site whether by resolution, ordinance, signing, placement of a physical barrier or by other means that reduces access. NR 1.91(2)(b)(b) “Access site” means an area of land providing public boat access or carry-in access, which provides parking for vehicles with or without trailers. NR 1.91(2)(c)(c) “Carry-in access” means access designed only for non-trailered boat launching. NR 1.91(2)(d)(d) “Natural resources enhancement services” means funding or activities that increase the recreational or environmental values of a waterway. These services include fish stocking, removal or other fish population management, habitat development, financial assistance for aquatic plant harvesting and any other services that increase the recreational or environmental values of a waterway and are supported with a grant awarded under ch. NR 193. NR 1.91(2)(e)(e) “Open water acres” means the water body surface which appears as water predominantly devoid of emergent vegetation on recent aerial photographs representative of the navigation season. This determination shall be made by the department and shall include open water acres on all contiguous waters connected by a channel or river commonly navigated by motorized craft. NR 1.91(2)(f)(f) “Plan” means an alternative boating access and waterway protection plan developed by the department or a local unit of government pursuant to sub. (6). NR 1.91(2)(g)(g) “Public access”, for purposes of s. NR 1.92, means any site providing motor vehicle access to ice-bound waters, public boating access or carry-in access. NR 1.91(2)(h)(h) “Public boating access” means any site or combination of sites including private sites meeting the provisions of sub. (7) at which the general public may gain legal access to a body of water by the process of launching a boat. NR 1.91(2)(i)(i) “Reasonable public boating access” means opportunities for public enjoyment and use of navigable waters which: NR 1.91(2)(i)1.1. Allow public rights of navigation and related incidental uses of the water which are equal for all, NR 1.91(2)(i)2.2. Comply with the standards for boating access established in this policy, NR 1.91(2)(i)3.3. Are available free or at a reasonable fee as determined by standards established in this policy, and NR 1.91(2)(i)4.4. Assure that levels and types of waterway use by all users do not interfere with public health, safety and welfare. NR 1.91(2)(j)(j) “Reduced” means lowering the number of parking units available for public use. NR 1.91(2)(k)(k) “Resident” means a natural person who permanently resides or owns real property within the unit of government maintaining or operating the access site. NR 1.91(2)(L)(L) “Resource protection services” include but are not limited to nonpoint pollution control grants, loans for municipal sewage treatment facilities, acquisition grants under the urban green space program, lake planning grants, lake protection grants and funding for municipal boating safety patrols and aids to navigation. NR 1.91(2)(m)(m) “Season pass” means authorization to use boat access facilities provided by the issuing authority when use of the facilities are available from January 1 to December 31 of each year. NR 1.91(2)(n)(n) “Services level” means that level of public boating access which meets or exceeds the levels described in sub. (4). NR 1.91(3)(3) Priorities. When acquiring and developing public boating access sites, the following shall have priority, in no prescribed order of importance: NR 1.91(3)(b)(b) Sites on lakes of over 500 open water acres that fail to meet the services level specified in sub. (4). NR 1.91(3)(c)(c) Sites, statewide, on waters having the greatest boating demands. NR 1.91(3)(d)(d) Sites which will provide public boating access to rivers and carry-in access to streams failing to meet the services level specified in sub. (4). NR 1.91(4)(4) Minimum public boating access to qualify waters for resource enhancement services. NR 1.91(4)(a)(a) The department may only provide natural resource enhancement services for a body of water when it determines that the general public has been provided with reasonable public boating access. The department may not provide natural resource enhancement services on waters where public access has been abandoned or reduced without prior approval by the department. NR 1.91(4)(b)(b) The department may continue to provide enhancement services to waters that do not meet minimum public boating access development standards where the department determines that existing access facilities are sufficient to meet existing public demand for access. NR 1.91(4)(c)(c) The department may provide resource protection services for pollution abatement or prevention, natural resources protection, public safety or public boating access if public boating access is not available on a waterway. NR 1.91(4)(d)(d) A waterway has reasonable public boating access and is eligible for natural resource enhancement services when public boating access meets the following standards: NR 1.91(4)(d)2.2. In addition to these standards, additional parking for handicapped individuals meeting the federal and state standards shall also be met. Lakes greater than 50 open water acres in size shall be provided with facilities capable of launching a trailered boat unless exempted by an approved plan.