§7717 Control of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets

Summary

The Secretary must run a program to control grasshoppers and Mormon crickets on all Federal lands to protect rangeland, if money is available. If the Secretary of Agriculture asks, the Secretary of the Interior must transfer money from any no‑year appropriations to the Agriculture Secretary to prevent or fight outbreaks on Interior lands. Those transferred funds can only pay obligations on those lands, must be requested quickly, cannot be used until specifically appropriated grasshopper-control funds are spent, and should be replenished by supplemental or regular appropriations as soon as possible. On request by the administering agency or a State agriculture department, the Secretary must quickly treat Federal, State, or private lands that have economic levels of infestation, unless waiting will not cause greater harm to nearby rangeland. The Secretary must work with other federal, State, and private efforts. From the funds made available or transferred under this rule, the Secretary will pay 100 percent of control costs on Federal lands, 50 percent on State lands, and 33.3 percent on private lands. The Agriculture Secretary must also use available or transferred Interior funds to set up training for the people who carry out this work.