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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 271b. Grazing privileges; right of occupancy or use for fixed term of years; renewal

Statutory text

Where any Federal lands included within the Canyonlands National Park are legally occupied or utilized on the date of approval of this Act or any amendment thereto for grazing purposes, pursuant to a lease, permit, or license for a fixed term of years issued or authorized by any department, establishment, or agency of the United States, the Secretary of the Interior shall permit the persons holding such grazing privileges to continue in the exercise thereof during the term of the lease, permit, or license, and one period of renewal thereafter.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 88–590 § 3 · 78 Stat. 934

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 271b

    Pub. L. 88–590, § 3, Sept. 12, 1964, 78 Stat. 938

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 88–590, § 3, Sept. 12, 1964, 78 Stat. 938

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. Where any Federal lands included within the Canyonlands National Park are legally occupied or utilized on the date of approval of this Act for grazing purposes, pursuant to a lease, permit, or license for a fixed term of years issued or authorized by any department, establishment, or agency of the United States, the Secretary of the Interior shall permit the persons holding Such grazing privileges to continue in the exercise thereof during the term of the lease, permit, or license, and one period of renewal thereafter.

  2. Pub. L. 92–154 § 1(c) · 85 Stat. 421

    Inserted · 16 U.S.C. § 271b

    Pub. L. 92–154 inserted “or any amendment thereto” after “date of approval of this Act”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 92–154 inserted “or any amendment thereto” after “date of approval of this Act”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) in the first sentence, delete the words “described in section 1 hereof or” which appear after the word “area”;

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Date of approval of this Act or any amendment thereto, referred to in text, means , date of enactment of Pub. L. 88–590, originally classified to sections 271 to 271d of this title, and , date of approval of Pub. L. 92–154, amendatory of Pub. L. 88–590 and classified to sections 271 to 271b, 271e to 271g of this title.

Amendments

1971—Pub. L. 92–154 inserted “or any amendment thereto” after “date of approval of this Act”.

Credits

1964–1971 · 2 acts
  1. 1964Pub. L. 88–590, § 3, , 78 Stat. 938
  2. 1971Pub. L. 92–154, § 1(c), , 85 Stat. 421.
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(Pub. L. 88–590, § 3, , 78 Stat. 938; Pub. L. 92–154, § 1(c), , 85 Stat. 421.)

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