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PUBLIC LAW 86-649-JULY 14, 1960

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Public Law 86-649 July 14. 1960

AN ACT

[H. R. 7004]— ijQ facilitate the administration of the public lands, and for other purposes. Public Land Administration Act.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be known as the "Public Land Administration Act". SEC. 2. For the purposes of this Act the term "public lands" means all Federal lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. TITLE I—STUDIES, COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS, AND CONTRIBUTIONS SEC. 101. The Secretary of the Interior may conduct investigations, studies, and experiments, on his own initiative or in cooperation with others, involving the improvement, management, use, and protection of the public lands and their resources under his jurisdiction. SEC. 102. The Secretary of the Interior may enter into cooperative agreements involving the improvement, management, use, and protection of the public lands and their resources under his jurisdiction. The provisions of this section shall apply only in those cases where the making of cooperative agreements for such purposes is neither expressly authorized nor expressly prohibited by other provisions of law. SEC. 103. (a) The Secretary of the Interior may accept contributions or donations of money, services, and property, real, personal, or mixed, for the improvement, management, use, and protection of the public lands and their resources under his jurisdiction including the acquisition of rights-of-way for such purposes. He may accept contributions for cadastral surveying performed on federally controlled or intermingled lands. Moneys received hereunder shall be covered into the Treasury and are hereby appropriated and made available until expended, as the Secretary may direct, for payment of expenses incident to the function toward the administration of which the contributions were made and for refunds to depositors of amounts contributed by them in specific instances where the contribution is in excess of their share of the cost. (b) This section shall not in any manner limit or repeal any existing statutory authority empowering the Secretary of the Interior to accept contributions or donations. TITLE II—SERVICE CHARGES AND EXCESS PAYMENTS

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SEC. 201. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Interior may establish reasonable filing fees, service fees and charges, and commissions with respect to applications and other documents relating to public lands and their resources under his jurisdiction, and may change and abolish such fees, charges, and commissions. Before any action is taken under this section, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register notice of his intention to take such action, and shall afford interested parties a period of thirty days, or, if he shall find it advisable, more, within which to submit data, views and arguments, either in writing or, if he shall deem it desirable, in open hearing. SEC. 202. (a) All fees, charges, and commissions prescribed by existing law or regulation shall remain in effect until changed or abolished by the Secretary.

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