Opinion ID: 761771
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978

Text: 14 Congress enacted PRIA in 1978. Among its purposes was to reaffirm a national policy and commitment to: ... manage, maintain, and improve the condition of the public rangelands so that they become as productive as feasible for all rangeland values. 43 U.S.C. § 1901(b)(2). PRIA set forth Congressional findings that vast segments of the public rangelands remained in an unsatisfactory condition and that increased management and funding were needed to address the problem. See id. § 1901(a)(1)-(3). One of PRIA's primary effects was to implement a new grazing fee formula for domestic livestock grazing on the public rangelands. See id. § 1905; see also BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, U.S. DEP'T OF THE INTERIOR, THE TAYLOR GRAZING ACT: FIFTY YEARS OF PROGRESS, 1934-1984, at 5 (noting Congress' failure to appropriate millions of dollars authorized by PRIA).