43 U.S.C. § 315m–1 — Lease of State, county, or privately owned lands; period of lease; rental

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The Secretary can lease state, county, or private land inside a grazing district for up to ten years. This helps use the district in an orderly way and protect forage. Fees the government charges ranchers can never be less than what the government itself pays in rent.

The Secretary of the Interior may, at his discretion, lease state, county, or privately owned land that is mainly valuable for grazing and sits inside a grazing district's boundaries, at rates he sets, whenever he judges that leasing it will help the district be used in an orderly way and help conserve the public land's forage there. These leases cannot run for more than ten years. And the grazing fees the United States charges ranchers for using this leased land can never be set lower than the rent the United States itself pays for that land. This section does not by itself authorize spending any new money. But money that Congress has appropriated, or later appropriates, for building, buying, or maintaining range improvements within grazing districts under sections 315i and 315j can also be made available by Congress for leasing land under this section and sections 315m–2 through 315m–4.

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The Secretary of the Interior in his discretion is authorized to lease at rates to be determined by him any State, county, or privately owned lands chiefly valuable for grazing purposes and lying within the exterior boundaries of a grazing district when, in his judgment, the leasing of such lands will promote the orderly use of the district and aid in conserving the forage resources of the public lands therein: Provided, That no such leases shall run for a period of more than ten years and in no event shall the grazing fees paid the United States for the grazing privileges on any of the lands leased under the provisions of this section be less than the rental paid by the United States for any of such lands: Provided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing the appropriation of any moneys except that moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated for construction, purchase, and maintenance of range improvements within grazing districts, pursuant to the provisions of sections 315i and 315j of this title, may be made additionally available by Congress for the leasing of land under this section and sections 315m–2 to 315m–4 of this title.

Source credit: (June 23, 1938, ch. 603, § 1, 52 Stat. 1033.)

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1938Enacted · Act of June 23, 1938, ch. 603 · 52 Stat. 1033

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