43 U.S.C. § 316l — Stock driveways and free grazing

This section covers driveways for moving livestock and several kinds of free grazing.

(a) Stock driveways. The Secretary^* may create, maintain, and regulate stock driveways — paths for moving livestock — within grazing districts. The Secretary can charge a fee to use them, or allow free use.

(b) Free grazing for small numbers. The Secretary may let any person^*, including prospectors and miners, graze a small number of livestock on land in a grazing district^* without paying a fee.

(c) Allotments for Eskimos and other Native people. The Secretary has discretion to grant a free grazing permit or lease on unallotted public land to any Eskimo or other native or half-breed person — the terms the statute itself uses. If that person grazes livestock on an allotment held by a different lessee^* or permittee, under a cooperative agreement, the fees charged for that allotment must be reduced. The reduction is proportional: it matches the share of the total livestock on the allotment that belongs to the native owner.