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 92 STAT. 1808

PUBLIC LAW 95-514—OCT. 25, 1978 GRAZING ADVISORY BOARDS

SEC. 10. Section 403(a) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1753) is amended by substituting the word "sixteen" for the word "eleven" before the words "contiguous Western States". XATIOXAL GRASSLAND

43 USC 1907.

EXEMPTIONS

SEC. 11. All National Grasslands are exempted from the provisions of this Act. EXPERIMENTAL STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM

43 USC 1908.

Report to Congress.

SEC. 12. (a) The Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture are hereby authorized and directed to develop and implement, on an experimental basis on selected areas of the public rangelands which are representative of the broad spectrum of range conditions, trends, and forage values, a program which provides incentives to, or rewards for, the holders of grazing permits and leases whose stewardship results in an improvement of the range condition of lands under permit or lease. Such program shall explore innovative grazing management policies and systems which might provide incentives to improve range conditions. These may include, but need not be limited to— (1) cooperative range management projects designed to foster a greater degree of cooperation and coordination between the Federal and State agencies charged with the management of the rangelands and with local private range users, (2) the payment of up to 50 per centum of the amount due the Federal Government from grazing permittees in the form of range improvement work, (3) such other incentives as he may deem appropriate. (b) No later than December 31, 1985, the Secretaries shall report to the Congress the results of such experimental program, their evaluation of the fee established in section 6 of this Act and other grazing fee options, and their recommendations to implement a grazing fee schedule for the 1986 and subsequent grazing years. ADVISORY

COUNCILS

SEC. 13. The first line of section 309(a) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1739) is amended by deleting "is authorized to" and inserting in lieu thereof "shall". WILD HORSES AND BURROS

Inventory and determinations.

SEC. 14. (a) Subsections 3(b), (c), and (d) of the Act of December 15, 1971 (85 Stat. 649; 16 U.S.C. 1333(b)(3)) are hereby amended to read as follows: "(b)(1) The Secretary shall maintain a current inventory of wild free-roaming horses and burros on given areas of the public lands. The purpose of such inventory shall be to: make determinations as to whether and where an overpopulation exists and whether action should be taken to remove excess animals; determine appropriate management levels of wild free-roaming horses and burros on these areas of the public lands; and determine whether appropriate management levels should be achieved by the removal or destruction of excess animals, or other options (such as sterilization, or natural controls on

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