Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102
§316d Notice of Establishment and Alteration of Grazing District; Hearings
Title 43 › CHAPTER 8A — GRAZING LANDS › SUBCHAPTER II — ALASKA › § 316d
Summary
Before creating or changing a grazing district, the Secretary must publish a notice in a widely read newspaper in each judicial division where the district would be. The notice must run once a week for six straight weeks and must say the district boundaries or the change, the date the Secretary plans to make the change, and where and when the required public hearings will be held. No change can happen until public hearings are held in each judicial division after those notices have been published.
Full Legal Text
Title 43, §316d
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Before establishing or altering a district the Secretary shall publish once a week for a period of six consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in each judicial division in which the district proposed to be established or altered is located, a notice describing the boundaries of the proposed district or the proposed alteration, announcing the date on which he proposes to establish such district or make such alteration and the location and date of hearings required under this section. No such alteration shall be made until after public hearings are held with respect to such alteration in each such judicial division after the publishing of such notice.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 471d of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Amendments
1968—Pub. L. 90–403 required publication of notice of alteration of a grazing district in each judicial division in which the district proposed to be altered is located, the notice to describe the boundaries of the proposed alteration and location and date of requisite hearings, and also public hearings with respect to the alteration to be held in each such judicial division prior to making the alteration.
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Citation
43 U.S.C. § 316d
Title 43, Public Lands
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102