Title: Wildlife-Livestock Conflict Resolution Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Wildlife-Livestock Conflict Resolution Act
This bill directs the Department of the Interior, for public land, and the Department of Agriculture, for National Forest System land, to accept the donation of any valid existing leases or permits authorizing grazing on such lands in New Mexico beginning in FY2022.
For each permit or lease donated, the department concerned shall (1) terminate the grazing permit or lease; and (2) except as provided below, ensure a permanent end to grazing on the land covered by the permit or lease.
If the land covered by a permit or lease that is donated also is covered by another valid grazing permit or lease that is not donated, the department concerned shall not allow the total grazing use on the land to exceed the average actual grazing use under the other valid grazing permit or lease for the five-year period preceding the date of the donation.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2980 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2980

 To authorize the voluntary donation of grazing permits and leases in 
            the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 7, 2021

Mr. Heinrich (for himself and Mr. Lujan) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the voluntary donation of grazing permits and leases in 
            the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Wildlife-Livestock Conflict 
Resolution Act''.

SEC. 2. DONATION OF GRAZING PERMITS AND LEASES.

    (a) In General.--Beginning in fiscal year 2022, the Secretary of 
the Interior, with respect to public land, and the Secretary of 
Agriculture, with respect to National Forest System land (referred to 
in this section as the ``Secretary concerned''), shall accept the 
donation of any valid existing leases or permits authorizing grazing on 
public land or National Forest System land in the State of New Mexico.
    (b) Termination.--With respect to each permit or lease donated 
under subsection (a), the Secretary concerned shall--
            (1) terminate the grazing permit or lease; and
            (2) except as provided in subsection (c), ensure a 
        permanent end to grazing on the land covered by the permit or 
        lease.
    (c) Common Allotments.--If the land covered by a permit or lease 
donated under subsection (a) is also covered by another valid grazing 
permit or lease that is not donated under that subsection, the 
Secretary concerned shall not allow the total grazing use on the land 
to exceed the average actual grazing use under the other valid grazing 
permit or lease for the 5-year period preceding the date of donation.
    (d) Limitation.--Not greater than 10 permits or leases may be 
donated under subsection (a) in each fiscal year.
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