Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§580g Seeding Leased Range Land; Conditions and Limitations
Title 16 › CHAPTER 3 — FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT › SUBCHAPTER I — GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 580g
Summary
Secretary of Agriculture may use money for protecting and managing national forests to pay for leasing, seeding, and fencing public range land (not national forest land) and private land next to or mixed with Forest Service land. The land must be under a lease or agreement the Chief thinks lasts long enough to make the spending worthwhile. No more than 1,000 acres per private owner, no more than 25,000 acres in any fiscal year, and leases cannot 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
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102