§ 580h. — Range improvements from appropriated funds.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC580h]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 580h. Range improvements from appropriated funds
Of the moneys received from grazing fees by the Treasury from each
national forest during each fiscal year there shall be available at the
end thereof when appropriated by Congress an amount equivalent to 2
cents per animal-month for sheep and goats and 10 cents per animal-month
for other kinds of livestock under permit on such national forest during
the calendar year in which the fiscal year begins, which appropriated
amount shall be available until expended on such national forest, under
such regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe, for (1)
artificial revegetation, including the collection or purchase of
necessary seed; (2) construction and maintenance of drift or division
fences and stock-watering places, bridges, corrals, driveways, or other
necessary range improvements; (3) control of range-destroying rodents;
or (4) eradication of poisonous plants and noxious weeds, in order to
protect or improve the future productivity of the range.
(Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, Sec. 12, 64 Stat. 85.)
Savings Provision
Provisions of Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, Pub.
L. 94-579, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2743, not to be construed as
affecting the distribution of livestock grazing revenues to local
governments under this section, see section 701(j) of Pub. L. 94-579,
set out as a note under section 1701 of Title 43, Public Lands.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 580k of this title.
