To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to make technical corrections to law governing grazing permits and leases on National Forest System lands.

Bill: 114-hr-1897
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hice, Jody B. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2015-04-21
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees

Land use and conservation

Licensing and registrations

Livestock
Latest action: action_date: 2015-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-04-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to apply certain requirements for permits and leases for domestic livestock grazing on National Forest System lands issued by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) regardless of where located. </p> <p>Requires the terms and conditions in a grazing permit or lease that has been waived to be continued under a new permit or lease until the Department of the Interior (respecting public lands) or USDA completes any environmental analysis and documentation for an allotment management plan required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and other applicable laws. </p> <p>Allows the categorical exclusion of an allotment management plan by Interior or USDA from the requirement to prepare an Environmental Assessment or an Environmental Impact Statement under NEPA if: (1) the issued allotment management plan continues the current grazing management of the allotment, and (2) the Department concerned has assessed and evaluated the grazing allotment associated with such management plan. </p> <p>(A &quot;categorical exclusion&quot; under NEPA is a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment and which have been found to have no such effect in procedures adopted by a federal agency in implementing environmental regulations and for which, therefore, neither an Environmental Assessment nor an Environmental Impact Statement is required.) </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1897 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 21, 2015 Mr. Jody B. Hice of Georgia (for himself and Mr. Labrador ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources , and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to make technical corrections to law governing grazing permits and leases on National Forest System lands.

1. Technical corrections to law governing grazing permits and leases on National Forest System lands Section 402 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ( 43 U.S.C. 1752 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking by the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to lands within National Forests in the sixteen contiguous Western States and inserting on National Forest System land by the Secretary of Agriculture (notwithstanding, for purposes of this section, the definition in section 103(p)) ; (2) in subsection (c)(2)— (A) by inserting has been waived, after expired, ; and (B) by striking the permit or lease required and inserting the allotment management plan, permit, or lease required ; and (3) in subsection (h)(1)— (A) by striking a grazing permit or lease in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) and inserting an allotment management plan or grazing permit or lease ; (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking permit or lease and inserting allotment management plan, permit, or lease ; and (C) in subparagraph (B)(i), by striking lease or permit and inserting allotment management plan, permit, or lease .