Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§580g Seeding leased range land; conditions and limitations

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 3— - FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 580g

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture can pay for leasing land, planting seed, and putting up protective fences on public rangeland (not national forest land) and on private land next to or mixed with Forest Service land. The money must come from funds for protecting and managing national forests. The Forest Service must control the land under a lease or agreement, and the Chief must agree the control lasts long enough to justify the cost. Payments may not cover more than 1,000 acres for any one private owner, may not exceed 25,000 acres in one fiscal year, and leases made under this rule may not be longer than 20 years.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §580g

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Whenever such action is deemed to be in the public interest, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay from any appropriation available for the protection and management of the national forests all or any part of the cost of leasing, seeding, and protective fencing of public range land (other than national forest land) and privately owned land intermingled with or adjacent to national forest or other land administered by the Forest Service, if the use of the land to be seeded is controlled by the Forest Service under a lease or agreement which in the judgment of the Chief of the Forest Service gives the Forest Service control over the land for a sufficient period to justify such expenditures: Provided, That payment may not be made under authority of this section for the seeding of more than one thousand acres in any one private ownership: Provided further, That payment may not be made under authority of this section for the seeding of more than twenty-five thousand acres in any one fiscal year: Provided further, That the period of any lease under this authority may not exceed twenty years.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 580g

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73