Any building room, area, enclosure, or other containment outside of a core facility or centrally designated or managed area in which animals are housed for more than 12 hours.
is the area encompassed by the corporate limits of the City of Tucson as of February 24, 1992.
A group of properties with similar attributes and location but not geographically bound.
Geographic area addressed by the analysis in a plan or study.
A geographic area selected and defined at the outset of engineering or environmental evaluations, which is sufficiently adequate in size to address all pertinent project matters occurring within it.
A study area is represented by four 6' Ordnance Survey sheets joined end to end giving a strip twenty-four miles long and four miles in height. There are five such study areas along with two smaller control areas represented by two and three 6' OS sheets respectively.
A discrete area within a project boundary in which sampling actually takes place. Study areas should be delineated to logically group samples together, generally based on habitat or population stratification and/or logistical concerns.
