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Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102

§1734a Availability of Excess Fees

Title 43 › CHAPTER 35 — FEDERAL LAND POLICY AND MANAGEMENT › SUBCHAPTER III — ADMINISTRATION › § 1734a

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Starting in fiscal year 1997, any fees (except mining claim fees) that are higher than the amounts collected in fiscal year 1996 and that the Secretary of the Interior set for processing permits and providing services related to public lands or their resources (including cultural, historical, and mineral) — and that are not already going into Bureau of Land Management appropriation accounts or legally reserved — must be made available immediately for program operations in this account and remain available until spent.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §1734a

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In fiscal year 1997 and thereafter, all fees, excluding mining claim fees, in excess of the fiscal year 1996 collections established by the Secretary of the Interior under the authority of section 1734 of this title for processing, recording, or documenting authorizations to use public lands or public land natural resources (including cultural, historical, and mineral) and for providing specific services to public land users, and which are not presently being covered into any Bureau of Land Management appropriation accounts, and not otherwise dedicated by law for a specific distribution, shall be made immediately available for program operations in this account and remain available until expended.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997, and not as part of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 which comprises this chapter.

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Citation

43 U.S.C. § 1734a

Title 43, Public Lands

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102