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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§580h Range improvements from appropriated funds

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

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

When Congress appropriates it at year‑end, grazing fees must include 2 cents per animal‑month for sheep and goats and 10 cents per animal‑month for other livestock under permit during the calendar year when the fiscal year began. The money stays available until spent and, under the Secretary of Agriculture’s rules, may be used to revegetate (including seed), fix range improvements, control damaging rodents, and remove poisonous plants and noxious weeds to protect future range productivity.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §580h

Conservation — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Of the moneys received from grazing fees by the Treasury from each national forest during each fiscal year there shall be available at the end thereof when appropriated by Congress an amount equivalent to 2 cents per animal-month for sheep and goats and 10 cents per animal-month for other kinds of livestock under permit on such national forest during the calendar year in which the fiscal year begins, which appropriated amount shall be available until expended on such national forest, under such regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe, for (1) artificial revegetation, including the collection or purchase of necessary seed; (2) construction and maintenance of drift or division fences and stock-watering places, bridges, corrals, driveways, or other necessary range improvements; (3) control of range-destroying rodents; or (4) eradication of poisonous plants and noxious weeds, in order to protect or improve the future productivity of the range.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Savings Provision

Provisions of Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, Pub. L. 94–579, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2743, not to be construed as affecting the distribution of livestock grazing revenues to local governments under this section, see section 701(j) of Pub. L. 94–579, set out as a note under section 1701 of Title 43, Public Lands.

Reference

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 580h

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73