[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 781 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 781

     To require the Secretary of Energy to raise rates for Federal 
  hydroelectric power to speed debt repayment for power projects, to 
increase domestic livestock grazing fees, to require a royalty for the 
  production of locatable minerals from Federal lands, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                April 7 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

Mr. Lautenberg 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 Energy to raise rates for Federal 
  hydroelectric power to speed debt repayment for power projects, to 
increase domestic livestock grazing fees, to require a royalty for the 
  production of locatable minerals from Federal lands, 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. DEBT REPAYMENT FOR HYDROELECTRIC POWER PROJECTS.

    (a) In General.--The second sentence of section 5 of the Act 
entitled ``An Act authorizing the construction of certain public works 
on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes'', 
approved December 22, 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s), is amended by inserting 
before the period at the end the following: ``through uniform annual 
payments that consist of equal amounts of principal and interest and 
that reflect a commencement of payments for each project with the 1st 
year in which electric power and energy is delivered to the Secretary 
of Energy from the project''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
become effective on October 1, 1994.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK GRAZING FEES.

    (a) In General.--Section 401 of the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1751) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection:
    ``(c)(1)(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), the Secretary of 
Agriculture, with respect to National Forest System lands in the 16 
contiguous Western States (except national grasslands) administered by 
the Forest Service where domestic livestock grazing is permitted under 
applicable law, and the Secretary of the Interior with respect to 
public domain lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management where 
domestic livestock grazing is permitted under applicable law, shall 
establish beginning with the grazing season that begins on March 1, 
1994, an annual domestic livestock grazing fee equal to fair market 
value.
    ``(B) The grazing fee charged for any given year under subparagraph 
(A) shall not increase nor decrease by more than 33.3 percent from the 
grazing fee charged for the previous year.
    ``(2)(A) As used in this subsection, the term `fair market value' 
means the amount obtained in accordance with the following formula:

                                                                        
                                  Appraised Base Value  x  Forage Value 
                                                  Index                 
          Fair Market Value=   -----------------------------------------
                                                   100                  
                                                                        

    ``(B) As used in subparagraph (A):
            ``(i) The term `Appraised Base Value' means the 1983 
        Appraisal Value conclusions for mature cattle and horses 
        (expressed in dollars per head or per month), as determined in 
        the 1986 report prepared jointly by the Secretary of 
        Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior entitled `Grazing 
        Fee Review and Evaluation', dated February 1986, on a westwide 
        basis using the lowest appraised value of the pricing areas 
        adjusted for advanced payment and indexed to 1993.
            ``(ii) The term `Forage Value Index' means the Forage Value 
        Index (FVI) computed annually by the Economic Research Service 
        of the Department of Agriculture, and set with the 1993 Forage 
        Value Index equal to 100.''.
    (b) Definition of 16 Contiguous Western States.--Section 103 of 
such Act (43 U.S.C. 1702) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph:
    ``(q) The term `16 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.''.
    (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 6 of the Public Rangelands 
Improvement Act of 1978 (43 U.S.C. 1905) is amended by striking 
subsection (a).

SEC. 3. ROYALTY FOR PRODUCTION OF LOCATABLE MINERALS.

    Production of locatable minerals (including associated minerals) 
from any mining claim located or converted under the general mining 
laws, or mineral concentrates derived from locatable minerals produced 
from any mining claim located or converted under the general mining 
laws, shall be subject to a royalty of not less than 12.5 percent of 
the gross income from the production of the locatable minerals or 
concentrates.

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