[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1750 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1750

 To make permanent the formula for determining fees for the grazing of 
                    livestock on public rangelands.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 20, 1993

Mrs. Vucanovich (for herself, Mr. Orton, Mr. Brewster, Mr. Allard, Mr. 
  Doolittle, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Lewis of California, Mr. Gallegly, Mr. 
 Hansen, Mr. Kolbe, Mr. Kyl, Mr. McInnis, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Herger, Mr. 
  Schaefer, Mr. Skeen, Mr. Smith of Oregon, Mr. Stump, Mr. Thomas of 
Wyoming, Mr. Thomas of California, Mr. Young of Alaska, and Mr. Hefley) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To make permanent the formula for determining fees for the grazing of 
                    livestock on public rangelands.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. GRAZING FORMULA.

    For the grazing year 1991 and for each succeeding year thereafter, 
the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior shall charge the fee for 
domestic livestock grazing on the public rangelands in the sixteen 
contiguous Western States which Congress finds represents the economic 
value of the use of the land to the user and under which Congress finds 
fair market value for public grazing to be the $1.23 base establishing 
by the 1966 Western Livestock Grazing Survey multiplied by the results 
of the Forage Value Index (computed annually from data supplied by the 
National Agricultural Statistic Service added to the Combined Index 
(Beef Cattle Price Index minus the Price Paid Index) and divided by 
100. The annual increase or decrease in such fee for any given year 
shall be limited to not more than plus or minus 25 percent of the 
previous year's fee.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act--
            (1) the term ``public rangelands'' means lands administered 
        by the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Land 
        Management or the Secretary of Agriculture through the Forest 
        Service in the sixteen contiguous Western States on which there 
        is domestic livestock grazing, or which the Secretary concerned 
        determines may be suitable for domestic livestock;
            (2) the term ``sixteen contiguous Western States'' means 
        the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, 
        Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, 
        Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming;
            (3) ``Forage Value Index'' means the weighted average 
        estimate of the annual rental charge per head per month for 
        pasturing cattle on private rangelands in the eleven Western 
        States (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, 
        Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and California) computed by 
        the Statistical Reporting Service from the June Enumerative 
        Survey divided by $3.65 and multiplied by 100;
            (4) ``Beef Cattle Price Index'' means the weighted average 
        annual selling price for beef cattle (excluding calves) in the 
        eleven Western States (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New 
        Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and 
        California) for November through October (computed by the 
        Statistical Reporting Service) divided by 22.04 per hundred 
        weight and multiplied by 100; and
            (5) ``Prices Paid Index'' means the following selected 
        components from the Statistical Reporting Service's annual 
        national index of prices paid by farmers for goods and services 
        adjusted by the weights indicated in parentheses to reflect 
        livestock production costs in the Western States: Fuels and 
        Energy (14.5); Farm and Motor supplies (12.0); Autos and Trucks 
        (4.5); Tractors and Self-Propelled Machinery (4.5); Other 
        Machinery (12.0); Building and Fencing Materials (14.5); 
        Interest (6.0); Farm Wage Rates (14.0); and Farm Services 
        (18.0).

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