[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1897 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1897

  To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to make 
 technical corrections to law governing grazing permits and leases on 
                     National Forest System lands.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 2015

 Mr. Jody B. Hice of Georgia (for himself and Mr. Labrador) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
   Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to make 
 technical corrections to law governing grazing permits and leases on 
                     National Forest System lands.

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

SECTION 1. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO LAW GOVERNING GRAZING PERMITS AND 
              LEASES ON NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LANDS.

    Section 402 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 
(43 U.S.C. 1752) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``by the Secretary of 
        Agriculture, with respect to lands within National Forests in 
        the sixteen contiguous Western States'' and inserting ``on 
        National Forest System land by the Secretary of Agriculture 
        (notwithstanding, for purposes of this section, the definition 
        in section 103(p))'';
            (2) in subsection (c)(2)--
                    (A) by inserting ``has been waived,'' after 
                ``expired,''; and
                    (B) by striking ``the permit or lease required'' 
                and inserting ``the allotment management plan, permit, 
                or lease required''; and
            (3) in subsection (h)(1)--
                    (A) by striking ``a grazing permit or lease'' in 
                the matter preceding subparagraph (A) and inserting 
                ``an allotment management plan or grazing permit or 
                lease'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``permit or 
                lease'' and inserting ``allotment management plan, 
                permit, or lease''; and
                    (C) in subparagraph (B)(i), by striking ``lease or 
                permit'' and inserting ``allotment management plan, 
                permit, or lease''.
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