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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1750
To make permanent the formula for determining fees for the grazing of
livestock on public rangelands.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 20, 1993
Mrs. VUCANOVICH (for herself, Mr. ORTON, Mr. BREWSTER, Mr. ALLARD, Mr.
DOOLITTLE, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. LEWIS of California, Mr. GALLEGLY, Mr.
HANSEN, Mr. KOLBE, Mr. KYL, Mr. MCINNIS, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr.
HERGER, Mr. SCHAEFER, Mr. SKEEN, Mr. SMITH of Oregon, Mr.
STUMP, Mr. THOMAS of Wyoming, Mr. THOMAS of California, Mr.
YOUNG of Alaska, and Mr. HEFLEY) introduced the following bill; which
was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
A BILL
To make permanent the formula for determining fees for
the grazing of livestock on public rangelands.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. GRAZING FORMULA.
For the grazing year 1991 and for each succeeding
year thereafter, the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior
shall charge the fee for domestic livestock grazing on the
public rangelands in the sixteen contiguous Western
States which Congress finds represents the economic value
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of the use of the land to the user and under which Con-
gress finds fair market value for public grazing to be the
$1.23 base establishing by the 1966 Western Livestock
Grazing Survey multiplied by the results of the Forage
Value Index (computed annually from data supplied by the
National Agricultural Statistic Service added to the Com-
bined Index (Beef Cattle Price Index minus the Price Paid
Index) and divided by 100. The annual increase or de-
crease in such fee for any given year shall be limited to
not more than plus or minus 25 percent of the previous
year’s fee.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Act—
(1) the term ‘‘public rangelands’’ means lands
administered by the Secretary of the Interior
through the Bureau of Land Management or the
Secretary of Agriculture through the Forest Service
in the sixteen contiguous Western States on which
there is domestic livestock grazing, or which the Sec-
retary concerned determines may be suitable for do-
mestic livestock;
(2) the term ‘‘sixteen contiguous Western
States’’ means the States of Arizona, California,
Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Ne-
vada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Or-
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egon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyo-
ming;
(3) ‘‘Forage Value Index’’ means the weighted
average estimate of the annual rental charge per
head per month for pasturing cattle on private
rangelands in the eleven Western States (Montana,
Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona,
Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and California)
computed by the Statistical Reporting Service from
the June Enumerative Survey divided by $3.65 and
multiplied by 100;
(4) ‘‘Beef Cattle Price Index’’ means the
weighted average annual selling price for beef cattle
(excluding calves) in the eleven Western States
(Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico,
Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and
California) for November through October (com-
puted by the Statistical Reporting Service) divided
by 22.04 per hundred weight and multiplied by 100;
and
(5) ‘‘Prices Paid Index’’ means the following se-
lected components from the Statistical Reporting
Service’s annual national index of prices paid by
farmers for goods and services adjusted by the
weights indicated in parentheses to reflect livestock
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production costs in the Western States: Fuels and
Energy (14.5); Farm and Motor supplies (12.0);
Autos and Trucks (4.5); Tractors and Self-Propelled
Machinery (4.5); Other Machinery (12.0); Building
and Fencing Materials (14.5); Interest (6.0); Farm
Wage Rates (14.0); and Farm Services (18.0).
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