[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 130 (Wednesday, August 3, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S3920]
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          STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS

      By Mr. THUNE:
  S. 4755. A bill to amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
of 1976 to ensure that ranchers who have grazing agreements on national 
grasslands are treated the same as permittees on other Federal land; to 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of 
the bill be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be 
printed in the Record, as follows:

                                S. 4755

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

     SECTION 1. ELIGIBILITY OF NATIONAL GRASSLANDS FOR GRAZING 
                   LEASES AND PERMITS.

       (a) In General.--Section 402(a) of the Federal Land Policy 
     and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1752(a)) is amended by 
     striking ``lands within National Forests'' and inserting 
     ``National Forest System (as defined in section 11(a) of the 
     Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 
     (16 U.S.C. 1609(a))) land''.
       (b) Effect.--Nothing in the amendment made by subsection 
     (a) modifies or affects--
       (1) the applicability to national grasslands of any 
     provision of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
     1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) other than section 402 of that 
     Act (43 U.S.C. 1752);
       (2) title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 
     U.S.C. 1010 et seq.); or
       (3) section 11 of the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 
     1978 (43 U.S.C. 1907).

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