§ 580g. — Seeding leased range land; conditions and limitations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC580g]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 580g. Seeding leased range land; conditions and limitations
Whenever such action is deemed to be in the public interest, the
Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay from any appropriation
available for the protection and management of the national forests all
or any part of the cost of leasing, seeding, and protective fencing of
public range land (other than national forest land) and privately owned
land intermingled with or adjacent to national forest or other land
administered by the Forest Service, if the use of the land to be seeded
is controlled by the Forest Service under a lease or agreement which in
the judgment of the Chief of the Forest Service gives the Forest Service
control over the land for a sufficient period to justify such
expenditures: Provided, That payment may not be made under authority of
this section for the seeding of more than one thousand acres in any one
private ownership: Provided further, That payment may not be made under
authority of this section for the seeding of more than twenty-five
thousand acres in any one fiscal year: Provided further, That the period
of any lease under this authority may not exceed twenty years.
(Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, Sec. 11, 64 Stat. 85.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 580k of this title.
