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Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73not60

§315h Cooperation with Associations, Land Officials, and Agencies Engaged in Conservation or Propagation of Wildlife; Local Hearings on Appeals; Acceptance and Use of Contributions

Title 43 › Chapter 8A— GRAZING LANDS › Subchapter I— GENERALLY › § 315h

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must make rules to work with local ranchers' groups, State land officials, and State agencies that care for wildlife about using grazing districts. The Secretary must also set up local appeal hearings like those used in the land department. The Secretary may accept donations to help manage, protect, and improve lands inside or outside grazing-district borders. Those donations go into a special Treasury fund that stays available until spent and can pay costs or refund people who paid more than their share.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §315h

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The Secretary of the Interior shall provide, by suitable rules and regulations, for cooperation with local associations of stockmen, State land officials, and official State agencies engaged in conservation or propagation of wildlife interested in the use of the grazing districts. The Secretary of the Interior shall provide by appropriate rules and regulations for local hearings on appeals from the decisions of the administrative officer in charge in a manner similar to the procedure in the land department. The Secretary of the Interior shall also be empowered to accept contributions toward the administration, protection, and improvement of lands within or without the exterior boundaries of a grazing district, moneys, so received to be covered into the Treasury as a special fund, which is appropriated and made available until expended, as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for payment of expenses incident to said administration, protection, and improvement, and for refunds to depositors of amounts contributed by them in excess of their share of the cost.

Legislative History

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Amendments

1948—Act June 19, 1948, substituted “lands within or without the external boundaries of a grazing district” for “the district” in third sentence, in order to permit acceptance of lands without boundaries of grazing district.

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Citation

43 U.S.C. § 315h

Title 43 — Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60