§316j Improvements to Leasehold

Summary

Allows the Secretary to let a leaseholder build and use fences, buildings, corrals, reservoirs, wells, or other things needed for grazing on leased land. Any fence must be built so miners, mineral prospectors, and other people who have the legal right to enter the land can get in and out. When a lease ends for any reason, the leaseholder has 90 days to remove removable improvements he owns or controls. If the leaseholder tells the Secretary by the lease end that he will leave authorized improvements on the land, no one else may use or occupy that land under a new grazing lease or public-land entry until the person entitled to payment is paid the value of those improvements as the Secretary decides.