[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1810 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1810

     To require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
 Agriculture to charge fair market value for permits issued on public 
   lands and National Forests for communication uses, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 31 (legislative day, January 25), 1994

  Mr. Bumpers introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
     To require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
 Agriculture to charge fair market value for permits issued on public 
   lands and National Forests for communication uses, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. COMMUNICATION PERMITS.

    (a) In General.--No permit, lease, or authorization for the use of 
any area of the public lands or National Forests for communication 
uses, including but not limited to radio and television broadcast, 
mobile radio, cellular telephone, or microwave relay facilities, shall 
remain in force and effect after October 1, 1994, unless, by such date, 
and by October 1 of each year thereafter, the holder of such permit, 
lease, or authorization pays to the Secretary of the Interior or the 
Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, an amount equal to the fair 
market value, as determined by such Secretary, of the right to use and 
occupy such area for such communication uses.
    (b) Definition.--For the purposes of this Act, the term ``public 
lands'' shall have the same meaning as defined in section 103(e) of the 
Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702(e)).

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